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Dr

Nova Mieszkowska

Reader

Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0002-9570-7759
  • Reader
    Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences

ABOUT

Personal Statement
Nova has a joint appointment with the Marine Biological Association of the UK. She has Visiting Fellowships and appointments at the University of Southampton, University of Newcastle, and a Sino-British Fellowship hosted by University of Hong Kong. She is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Marine Science & the Journal of the Marine Biological Association.

 

Research Overview
Dr Nova Mieszkowska is a Reader in the Department of Earth, Ocean & Ecological Sciences, and Senior esearch Fellow in impacts of climate change and multiple stressors on marine biodiversity & ecosystems at the Marine Biological Association. Her research interests include responses of marine biodiversity to climate change, ocean acidification, microplastics and multiple stressors; biogeography, macroecology, underlying physiological mechanisms. Species Distribution Modelling, Dynamic Energy Budget modelling, mechanistic functional traits modelling. Experimental ecophysiology. Reproductive physiology and phenology. Invasion biology and impacts of invasives on native biodiversity. Physiological stress responses to environmental parameters and synthetic compounds. Maintaining long-term time-series of intertidal species and communities around Britain and Europe. Impacts of anthropogenic pressures on the coastal zone. Field and mesocosm experimental investigations of physiological impacts of climate drivers on marine ectotherms and macroalgae. Science-policy knowledge transfer; assessments of ecosystem status, planning of MCZs, compliance to national and international policy drivers. Adaptational mechanisms underpinning changes in marine environments.

Nova's research includes the MarClim project; the most spatio-temporally extensive time-series for rocky intertidal ecosystems globally, UK Ocean Acidification Benthic Consortium & Velocity of Climate Change Project. She is a member of the international group INSHORE comprising international experts in climate change, macroecology & physiology. She has a significant field-based component to her research programme & extensive taxanomic skills, experimental & survey design & implementation experience, habitat mapping & status assessments for Special Areas of Conservation, Marine Conservation Zones, European Marine Sites & government assessments. She has established time-series projects in Europe & New Zealand and developed MarClim protocols as a standard for EU MSFD indicators of Good Environmental Status & the EMBOS network.

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL ORGANISATIONAL UNITS MEMBERSHIP

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • 13 Climate Action
  • 14 Life Below Water
  • 15 Life on Land

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