Mooring Scars · four bays, five years
Drone and diver maps of seagrass damage around swing moorings, used by two harbour boards to move moorings into sand. Funded by the national marine research programme.
Projects
Funded projects and who uses the results.
Each project below names its partner and what changed because of it. Papers are listed after the projects, newest first.
Current and recent projects
Bay Memory · environmental DNA trials
Comparing eDNA water samples with diving counts across twelve sites. If the match holds, winter surveys get cheaper and safer for everyone.
Storm Ledger · kelp after the big storms
Revisiting the Kelpwater transects after every named storm to see which forests bounce back within a year and which do not.
Shore School · undergraduate field teaching
A teaching project that turns first-year surveys into real records for the county biodiversity office.
Selected papers
Full list with open-access links in the CV.
- Recent
Recovery rates of mooring scars in Atlantic seagrass · Journal of Coastal Habitats
Brennan, Doyle and Okafor. The eight-to-twelve-year recovery estimate behind the harbour board decisions.
- Recent
Environmental DNA matches diver counts in exposed bays · Marine Methods Letters
Kavanagh, Brennan and others. First field test of the lab's eDNA protocol.
- Earlier
Storm disturbance and mussel bed resilience · Intertidal Ecology
Brennan and Walsh. The core chapter of my PhD thesis.
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