Sophie Fielding
Zooplankton Ecologist
Ecosystems team
University of British Antarctic Survey
United Kingdom
Biography
"Previous appointments: 2003-2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, George Deacon Division, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK (Biophysical interactions. NERC Marine Productivity, NERC The Crozet Natural iron bloom and export experiment (CROZEX) ) 1995 – 2003 Post graduate Research Assistant, George Deacon Division, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK (Biophysical interactions. NERC Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (PRIME), EU Observations and Modelling of Eddy scale Geostrophic and Ageostrophic motion (OMEGA) ) Post-school education: 2003 Ph.D Biological validation of acoustic backscatter and observations of biological/hydrographic interactions at the mesoscale. University of Southampton 1995 BSc (Hons) Marine Biology with Oceanography, 2(1). University of Southampton"
Research Interest
My research focuses on the use of acoustic observations to understand ecosystem response to a changing oceanic habitat, addressing issues around global food security and climate affects on carbon cycles. My interests span zooplankton to nekton and I examine them in the context of physical forcing of plankton distributions, predator-prey interactions, human fishing impacts and methodological developments in acoustic techniques of target identification and estimation. I am a keen advocate of emerging technology including the use of AUVs (in particular underwater gliders) in my research.
Publications
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Fielding S, Griffiths G, Roe HSJ (2004) Biological validation of ADCP acoustic backscatter through direct comparison with net samples and model-predictions based on acoustic backscatter models. ICES Journal of Marine Science 61: 184-200."
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Allen JT, Brown L, Sanders R, Mustard AT, Fielding S, et al. (2005) The diatom ‘chain-gang’ enhancing carbon export in the N.E. Atlantic. Nature 437(29): 728-732.
