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Dr Katharine Clayton

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • School of Environmental Sciences

Summary

Katharine specialises in the field of marine invertebrate physiology. with a keen focus on physiological limits and optimums in relation to stress tolerance, health and welfare. She applies these techniques to a range of environmental settings from climate change adaptation, aquaculture optimisation and now benthic offshore wind vibrations at The University of Hull.

BSc Marine Biology - University of Plymouth

PhD Biological Sciences - University of Exeter, title " Building Armour From Water: Understanding Calcification Physiology to Optimise Conditions for Indoor King Prawn Aquaculture"

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Salinity does not affect late-stage in-egg embryonic or immediate post-hatch development in an ecologically important land crab species

Turner, L. M., Clayton, K. A., Wiberg, L., Wilson, C. H., Ibbini, Z., Tills, O., & Spicer, J. I. (2025). Salinity does not affect late-stage in-egg embryonic or immediate post-hatch development in an ecologically important land crab species. The journal of experimental biology, 228(2), https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.249629

Evidence for physiological niche expansion of an intertidal flatworm: Evolutionary rescue in the wild

Clayton, K. A., & Spicer, J. I. (2020). Evidence for physiological niche expansion of an intertidal flatworm: Evolutionary rescue in the wild. Marine ecology progress series, 651, 85-95. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13473

Research interests

Marine invertebrate physiology, stress tolerance, adaptation, vibration, climate change and aquaculture.

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