Staff & Students

HIFI consists of Prof. Ian Cowx (Director), Dr Jon Harvey, Dr Richard Noble, Dr Andy Nunn and Dr Jonathan Bolland, and currently includes 12 PhD and eight MSc research students. We also host visiting scientists on a frequent basis.

Staff

Prof. Ian G. Cowx - Professor of Applied Fisheries Science & Director of HIFI

Dr Jonathan D. Bolland - Research Assistant

Dr Jon P. Harvey - Lecturer & Admissions Tutor

Dr Richard A. A. Noble - Research Associate

Dr Andy D. Nunn - Research Associate

PhD students

Miss Natalie Angelopoulos - Development of environmentally and sociably acceptable methods for effective rehabilitation of rivers

Mr Sam Billington - Factors affecting the recovery of salmon in the River Mersey

Mr Zuze Dulanya - Environmental impact on shallow-lake fisheries in Malawi: a coupled catchment-based and palaeolimnological approach

Mr Kaviphone Phouthavong - Adapting fisheries-based livelihoods to hydrological changes in the Mekong River: a case study of Lao PDR

Miss Andrea Robson - Impacts of run-of-river hydropower schemes on fishes

Mr Jake Reeds - Measuring the success of elver stocking: determining post stocking migration, survival rate and detrimental effect on resident fish communities

Miss Michelle Smith - Ecological and environmental consequences of flooding and flow management in rivers

Miss Victoria Smith - Morphological and ecological divergence in the hybridogenic fish complex Squalius alburnoides

Mr Ryan Taylor - Factors affecting the longevity, growth and recruitment of riverine fishes in the UK

Miss Lauren Tewson - The role of food availability during critical life-stages in determination of the survival and growth of under-yearling coarse fish

Miss Karen Twine - Factors affecting the population of barbel, Barbus barbus, in the River Great Ouse

Mr Sam Walton - Flow and temperature controls on fish community structure and dynamics in UK rivers

MSc (Res) students

Miss Jessica Ager - Invasive fish species in Central Asia and the Caucasus

Mr Sam Bartlett - Investigation into fisheries issues on the River Ancholme

Mr Jamie Bringloe - Impacts of reservoir compensation releases on fishes

Mr David Johnson – Factors affecting the decline of grayling, Thymallus thymallus, in Yorkshire rivers

Mr Joe Kitanosono - Impacts of river regulation on fisheries

Miss Taya Parker-Mian - Colonisation of a developing mudflat by fishes

Mr Matt Styles - Quantifying the impacts of pumping stations on fishes using dual-frequency identification sonar (DIDSON)

Miss Marie Taylor - Spatial and annual variations in the diets and prey selection of roach, Rutilus rutilus, larvae in lowland rivers