Dr Simon Northridge

Deputy Head of School

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2654

Email

spn1@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My work is focused on practical aspects of conservation, including quantifying the impacts of human activities on wildlife and examining the best ways to minimise such impacts.  I work mainly with fisheries and aquaculture, quantifying bycatch levels of non-target species, and especially those whose populations are most vulnerable to additional mortality.  I am interested in understanding how and why such interactions occur and in testing ways that may be useful in minimising any damage caused while maintaining economically important activities. Competitve interactions between fisheries and marine mammals provide the basis for my interest in the feeding ecology and behaviour of marine mammals, and especially how this relates to fishing activity.  Work within my research group also uses passive acoustic techniques to study the behaviour of echolocating animals, especially in areas close to fisheries, aquaculture or renewable energy sites where they may be vulnerable.

Selected publications

• Open access

  Plugging the Gaps - Improving Our Knowledge of How Predators Impact Salmon Farms

  Coram, A. J., Mazilu, M. & Northridge, S. P., May 2016, Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum. 39 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Open access

  Identification of high-risk areas for harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena bycatch using remote electronic monitoring and satellite telemetry data

  Kindt-Larsen, L., Willestofte Berg, C., Tougaard, J., Kirk Sørensen, T., Geitner, K., Northridge, S. P., Sveegaard, S., Sveegaard, S. & Larsen, F., 18 Aug 2016, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 555, p. 261-271 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Disentangling the causes of protected-species bycatch in gillnet fisheries

  Northridge, S., Coram, A., Kingston, A. & Crawford, R., 9 May 2017, In: Conservation Biology. 31, 3, p. 686-695 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Mitigating bycatch and depredation of marine mammals in longline fisheries

  Werner, T. B., Northridge, S., Press, K. M. & Young, N., May 2015, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 72, 5, p. 1576-1586 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  To ping or not to ping: the use of active acoustic devices in mitigating interactions between small cetaceans and gillnet fisheries

  Dawson, S., Northridge, S. P., Waples, D. & Read, A., 2013, In: Endangered Species Research. 19, 3, p. 201-221

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Bycatch of Vulnerable Species : Understanding the Process and Mitigating the Impacts. Final report to Defra project MF1003.

  Northridge, S., Kingston, A. R., Mackay, A. & Lonergan, M., 2011, defra. 99 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Entanglement of minke whales in Scottish waters; an investigation into occurrence , causes and mitigation

  Northridge, S., Cargill, A., Coram, A., Mandleberg, L., Calderan, S. & Reid, B., 2010, 1 p. Contract Report to Scottish Government.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Bycatch of marine mammals in US and global fisheries

  Read, AJ., Drinker, P. & Northridge, S. P., Feb 2006, In: Conservation Biology. 20, 1, p. 163-169 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Potential impacts of acoustic deterrent devices on Scottish marine wildlife

  Gordon, J. C. D. & Northridge, S. P., 2003

  Research output: Other contribution

• Atlas of cetacean distribution in north-west European waters

  Reid, J., Evans, PGH. & Northridge, S. P., 2003, Unknown Publisher. 76 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

 

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