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Dr Andrew Want

Lecturer

Faculty and Department

  • Institutes
  • Energy and Environmental Institute

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (Heriot-Watt University)

Summary

Andrew Want currently works at the University of Hull's Energy and Environment Institute. Andrew is a marine ecologist pursuing a multi-faceted research approach to uncover mechanisms that underpin marine population responses to environmental changes created as the transition to decarbonise energy generation accelerates. This includes close partnership with the European Marine Energy Centre exploring the impacts of marine growth in the offshore renewable energy industry.

Recent outputs

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Book

Blue carbon audit of Orkney waters

Porter, J., Austin, W., Burrows, M., Clarke, D., Davies, G., Kamenos, N., …Want, A. (2020). Blue carbon audit of Orkney waters. Aberdeen: Marine Scotland Science. https://doi.org/10.7489/12262-1

Book Chapter

Scapa 100: The Marine Life Legacy

Porter, J., & Want, A. (2021). Scapa 100: The Marine Life Legacy. In M. Edmonds, & J. Park (Eds.), Scapa Flow Legacy : Orkney and the German High Seas Fleet (171--183). Kirkwall: The Orcadian (Kirkwall Press)

Journal Article

Foul-weather friends: Modelling thermal stress mitigation by symbiotic endolithic microbes in a changing environment

Zardi, {. I., Monsinjon, {. R., McQuaid, {. D., Seuront, L., Orostica, M., Want, A., …Nicastro, K. R. (2021). Foul-weather friends: Modelling thermal stress mitigation by symbiotic endolithic microbes in a changing environment. Global change biology, 27, 2549--2560. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15616

Sea-trial verification of a novel system for monitoring biofouling and testing anti-fouling coatings in highly energetic environments targeted by the marine renewable energy industry

Want, A., Bell, {. C., Harris, {. E., Hull, {. Q., Long, {. R., & Porter, {. S. (2021). Sea-trial verification of a novel system for monitoring biofouling and testing anti-fouling coatings in highly energetic environments targeted by the marine renewable energy industry. Biofouling, 37(4), 433--451. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2021.1928091

A new range-extending record of the invasive sea squirt S. clava in the north of Scotland

Want, A., & Kakkonen, {. E. (2021). A new range-extending record of the invasive sea squirt S. clava in the north of Scotland. Marine Biodiversity Records, 14, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-021-00211-x

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Evidence review on the sensitivity of seagrass to nutrients

Funder

Natural England

Grant

£18,450.00

Started

21 November 2022

Status

Complete

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