Dr Sophie Elliott

Dr Sophie Elliott is a marine conservation scientist working on the E3 Sharing Space for Nature initiative. Her research interests lie in understanding how natural and anthropogenic factors affect commercially important marine species which are also Protected. Threatened and/or Endangered. Sophie has a specialist knowledge of diadromous fish and elasmobranch and marine fisheries bycatch.

Dr Sophie Elliott is a member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology.

Species and Habitat protection

• Modelling species distribution and abundance in space and time to understand key factors affecting this.
• Focus on Protected, Threatened and Endangered species which were or are commercially important.
• Relationships between Protected, Threatened and Endangered species, environmental variables and anthropogenic pressures.
• Use of Automated Imagery analysis for the monitoring and protection of species.

Conservation practice and policy

• Species conservation measures.
• Planning, implementing and management of Marine Protected Areas and OECMs.
• Reducing bycatch of Protected, Threatened and Endangered species.

A Full list of Sophie's publications can be found on her Google Scholar page.

Current PhD Students

• Daniel Crowther (Primary supervisor with Professor Robert Britton, Bournemouth University): Predicting the roles of anadromy and freshwater carry-over effects in the sustainability of the threatened brown trout Salmo trutta populations. (Bournemouth University)

Past PhD Students

• Natasha Walker-Milner (co-supervised with Dr David Bailey, University of Glasgow and Dr Peter Wright, Marine Scotland Science): The importance of Nursery habitats as a bottleneck to gadoid recruitment (funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment in collaboration with the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd, New Zealand and Marine Scotland).
• Noemie Coulon (supervision of two chapters with Alexandre Carpentier, University of Rennes and Professor Eric Feunteun, French Natural History Museum) Structural and functional characterisation of elasmobranch communities in the Northeast Atlantic in the context of climate change (la Foundation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB) and Electricité de France (EDF))
  

Researchers

• Gaspard Dubost: Research Institute for Agriculture, food and the Environment (INRAE), France - DiadSea project - Improving management and conservation of diadromous fish at sea.
• Amalle Bisch: L'Office français de la Biodiversité, France - Chondrichthyan distribution modelling and conservation research.