Room: 2nd floor, Marine Centre Wales       Phone: +44 (0) 1248 388603

Email: m.hayden-hughes@bangor.ac.uk

Web: www.shellfish.wales                 wild-oysters.org/

I graduated in Applied Marine Biology in 2017. During that time I spent a year working in the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) investigating the geomorphological interactions of the American razor clam, Ensis directus. I completed an MSc in Marine Environmental Protection in 2018. My thesis researched biodiversity and the associated species assemblages in mussel culture on an experimental offshore longline system as part of the Irish Sea Portal Pilot (ISPP) project. At the beginning of 2019, I became a Research Project Support Officer on the Shellfish Centre, a research and innovation project supporting development of the shellfish sector in Wales. In addition, I became the Local Project Officer in 2020 for the Welsh restoration hub in Conwy Bay for The Wild Oysters Project, aiming to restore Britain’s seas to health through the restoration of the native oyster.

Research Areas

Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

  • MSc: Marine Environmental Protection
    2018
  • BSc: Applied Marine Biology (Hons)
    2017

2024

  • PublishedRecords reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems
    Thurstan, R., McCormick, H., Preston, J., Ashton, E. C., Bennema, F. P., Cetinic, A. B., Brown, J. H., Cameron, T. C., da Costa, F., Donnan, D. W., Ewers, C., Fortibuoni, T., Galimany, E., Giovanardi, O., Grancher, R., Grech, D., Hayden-Hughes, M., Helmer, L., Jensen, K. T., Juanes, J. A., Latchford, J., Moore, A., Moutopoulos, D. K., Nielson, P., Nordheim, H. V., Ondiviela, B., Peter, C., Pogoda, B., Poulsen, B., Pouvreau, S., Roberts, C., Scherer, C., Smaal, A. C., Smyth, D., Strand, A., Theodorou, J. A. & zu Ermgassen, P. S. E., 1 Dec 2024, In: Nature Sustainability . 7, 12, p. 1719-1729 11 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

2021