The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Miriam's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Supervised Research Degrees
I am currently supervising three PhD students, 1 ResM and 2 MRes:
- Corin Schofield (ARIES-funded PhD, DOS, October 2024 -): Bouncing back from macroalgal-dominated reefs: microbial and chemical effects of algal removal and coral transplanting.
- Caitlin Dye (ARIES-funded PhD, 2nd supervisor, October 2024 - ): Complex relationships: exploring the role of the diatom microbiome in host-parasite interactions.
- Matthew Doherty (CRISP-funded PhD, 3rd supervisor, October 2024 - ): What key ecological and environmental mechanisms drive coral resilience to marine heatwaves?
- Molly Blyth (PhD, DOS, September 2024 - ): Understanding the impacts of soft coral dominance on hard corals in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
-Leah Harper (CRISP-funde PhD, 3rd Supervisor, September 2025 -): Ecological functioning of Caribbean coral reefs.
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Recently graduated students:
- Beatrice Cantieri (MRes, DOS, MRes, September 2025): Thermal resilience of Halimeda: assessing the impact of ocean warming on a key reef-building alga.
- Ethan Quah (MRes, 2nd supervisor, September 2025): Physiological and metabolomic responses of the kelp Laminaria digitata to the bryozoan Membranipora mebranacea biofouling.Ìý
- Ana Coelho Ferreira (Res M, DOS, June 2025): Coral reef fishes in different hard and soft coral-dominated reef habitats.
- Constance Little (MRes, DOS, September 2024): Linking organismal physiology with environmental health: heat-stress associated changes in coral holobionts metabolic profiles.Ìý
- Laura Paling (MRes, DOS, September 2024): Investigating the impacts of allelopathy from the spongeÌýLamelodysidea herbaceaÌýfrom Moorea, French Polynesia onÌýAcropora pulchraÌýandÌýPocillopora acuta.
- Graham Sharpe (MRes, DOS, September 2024): Spatiotemporal metabolomic and morphological variation in the cosmopolitan intertidal spongeÌýHymeniacidon perlevis:Ìýexploring bioindication potential.
- Luke Herring (MRes, DOS, September 2024): Studying the metabolomic response of different populations ofÌýAcropora pulchraÌýandÌýAcropora asperaÌýto thermal stress for restoration purposes.
- Harriet Jameson (MRes, 2nd supervisor, September 2023): Venom allocation, haemolytic capability and metabolite content in the venom of the lesser weever fish,ÌýEchiichthys viperaÌý(Cuvier, 1829).
Teaching
I am module leader for:Ìý
- MBIO226: Experimental Marine Biology Field Course (B.Sc. Marine Biology, 2nd year).Ìý
I also teach on:
-ÌýMBIO120 Introduction to Marine Biology (1st year)
- MBIO123 Marine Biology Field Course (1st Year)
- MBIO229 Methods in Marine Biology (2nd Year)
- MBIO329 Marine Biology and Evolutionary Approach (3rd Year)
- MBIO327 Marine Ecology (3rd Year)
- MBAM5106 Advanced Research in Marine Biology (MRes)
I also supervise around 8 undergraduate student projects a year on varied topics such as coral reef ecology, marine metabolomics and chemical ecology
Contact Miriam
miriam.reverter@plymouth.ac.uk