After graduating in Appplied Marine Biology from Bangor University, including a year-long research internship at NIOZ working on deep-sea bacterio-plankton, I contitnued to complete an MSc in Marine Environemtal Protection at Bangor.

After University studies, I worked in the commercial marine science sector as a benthic taxonomist between 2008 and 2012, assessing benthic biodiversity in continental-shelf surveys from the UK and aborad. In 2012 I left this role to pursue a Ph.D. in the ecological functioning of submarine canyons. Post Ph.D., I returned to commercial marine science working as an offshore environemtal scientist, responsible for designing and implementing seabed surveys in and around offshore installations in the UK, West Africa and the Middle East. In 2019 I was appointed as lecture in Marine biology in the School of Ocean Sciences, within the teaching and scholarship team. 

My PhD focused on the ecosystem ecology of Mid Atlantic Bight submarine canyons, specifically Baltimore and Norfolk canyons, in the western North Atlantc. My thesis involved an ecosystem appraisal of the hydrodynamics, sediments & food supply influencing canyon habitats and benthic macrofauna communities and their contribution to canyon ecosystem function.

Address:

School of Ocean Sciences

Bangor University

Isle of Anglesey, LL59 5AB

Room: 414 Westbury Mount  Phone: 01248 382598

Email: craig.robertson@bangor.ac.uk

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• PhD: Macrofaunal Diversity and Functioning within Submarine Canyons of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, Western North Atlantic
  2012–2018
• MSc: Marine Environmental Protection
  2007–2008
• BSc: Applied Marine Biology
  2003–2007

 Current Teaching Responsibilities: 

I teach across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the School of Ocean Sciences. The main focus of my teaching is benthic marine benthic ecology and marine predators and data analysis. 

ONS-1001 Environemtal Data and Analysis

DNS-1003 Ecology and Evolution

OSX-3000 BSc Dissertation Project

OSX-3011 Extreme Marine Habitats

OSX-3020 Shark and their Relatives

OSX-4000 Marine Ecology Skills

OSX-4009 MSc Dissertation Project, Design and Planning 

I am always willing to supervise MRes and Ph.D. Contact me for further details. 

I am a benthic ecologist with expertise in benthic biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, trait-based approaches and disturbance ecology. I am particularly intersted in deep-sea and biogenic habitats focusing on the macrofaunal community ecology. 

Our work seeks to reach beyond the traditional assessment methods of biodiversity to a more inclusive ecosystem approach that considers the role of benthic organisims in mediating mediating key ecosystem processing and services. 

Our research involves unpicking how marine biodiversity and habitats contribute to the functioning of seafloor ecosystems across biotic and abiotic gradients. Habitats of interest include deep-sea and continental margin habitats, such as submarine canyons and cold-seeps, cold-water coral reefs and subtidal habitats. 

We use spatial and temporal empirical datasets to bridge the gaps between traditional taxonomic assessments of biodiversity and community assemblage functioning. 

2024

• Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasgVariation in coral rubble cryptofauna is scale-dependent and driven by small-scale habitat characteristics
  Goberdhan, L., Robertson, C., Egerton, J., Fox, M., Johnson, M., Graham, N. & Williams, G. J., 30 Medi 2024, (Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasg) Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2022

• CyhoeddwydDistributions of microplastics and larger anthropogenic debris in Norfolk Canyon, Baltimore Canyon, and the adjacent continental slope (Western North Atlantic Margin, USA)
  Jones, E. S., Ross, S. W., Robertson, C. M. & Young, C. M., 11 Ion 2022, Yn: Marine pollution bulletin. 174
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydEffects of bottom trawling and hypoxia on benthic invertebrate communities
  van Denderen, P. D., Tornroos, A., Sciberras, M., Hinz, H., Friedland, R., Lasota, R., Mangano, M. C., Robertson, C., Valanko, S. & Hiddink, J. G., 11 Awst 2022, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 694, t. 13-27 15 t.
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2021

• CyhoeddwydThe role of habitat heterogeneity and canyon processes in structuring sediment macrofaunal communities associated with hard substrate habitats in Norfolk Canyon, USA
  Bourque, J. R., Demopoulos, A. W. J., Robertson, C. M. & Mienis, F., 1 Ebr 2021, Yn: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 170, 103495.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2020

• CyhoeddwydSubmarine canyons influence macrofaunal diversity and density patterns in the deep-sea benthos
  Robertson, C. M., Bourque, J. R., Mienis, F., Duineveld, G. C. A., Lavaleye, M. S. S., Koivisto, R. K. K., Brooke, S. D., Ross, S. W., Rhode, M., Davies, A. J. & Demopoulos, A. W. J., 16 Mai 2020, Yn: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 159, 103249.
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2017

• CyhoeddwydMacrofaunal communities associated with chemosynthetic habitats from the US Atlantic margin: A comparison among depth and habitat types
  Bourque, J. R., Robertson, C. M., Brooke, S. & Demopoulos, A. W. J., Maw 2017, Yn: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 137, t. 42-55
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydSeasonal variability in the source and composition of particulate matter in the depositional zone of Baltimore Canyon, U.S. Mid-Atlantic Bight
  Prouty, N. G., Mienis, F., Campbell, P., Roark, E. B., Davies, A., Robertson, C., Duineveld, G. C. A., Ross, S. W., Rhode, M. & Demopoulos, A. W. J., Medi 2017, Yn: Deep Sea Research I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 127, t. 77-89
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2016

• CyhoeddwydImpacts of Bottom Fishing on Sediment Biogeochemical and Biological Parameters in Cohesive and Non-cohesive Sediments
  Sciberras, M., Parker, R., Powell, C., Robertson, C., Kroger, S., Bolam, S. & Hiddink, J., Tach 2016, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 61, 6, t. 2076-2089
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

• Co-funding for NERC SuMMeR CDT PhD studentship - Can trait-based approaches inform habitat mapping of ecosystem function, process and services in benthic communities

  01/10/2023 – 15/10/2027 (Wrthi'n gweithredu)