Dr Ian McCarthy

Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil

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Room: Room 108A, Nuffield Fish Lab

Phone: 01248 382862

E-mail: i.mccarthy@bangor.ac.uk

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I graduated with a degree in Marine Biology and Zoology from the University College of North Wales, bangor (as was Bangor University) in 1987 and undertook a PhD on individual variation in behavioural and physiological performance in salmonids and sea bass at Aberdeen University under the supervison of Prof. Dominic Houlihan between 1989 and 1992. I remained in Aberdeen for 4 years postdoctoral research studying the physiological ecology of salmonids and flounder. In 1996, I was awarded a NERC Fellowship and I moved to the University Field Station (Glasgow University) on Loch Lomondside to examine the effect of intraspecific variation in physiological performance on growth and life history strategies in salmonid fish. In 1999, I 'popped over the pond' to Mustang Island on the Gulf coast of south Texas to work for Prof. Lee Fuiman at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. My research in south Texas examined the sublethal effects of pollutants on the behavioural and physiological performance of marine fish larvae. I returned to Menai Bridge in February 2002 as a Lecturer in Fish Biology being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and appointed a Reader in 2016.

Although I trained as a fish biologist, my research interests have broadened and I now work on the behavioural and physiological ecology of aquatic animals (molluscs, echinoderms, crustaceans and fishes). In general, my research interest are:

  1. growth and energetics of aquatic animals (in particular protein synthesis/turnover, trade offs in energy allocation and physiological capacity to survive environmental change)
  2. Consistency of individual physiological and behavioural performance and impacts on life history strategies and fitness
  3. use of chemical tags (isotopes and trace elements) to examine feeding ecology and movement patterns
  4. population biology and management of temperate marine fisheries
  1. Cyhoeddwyd

    Post-prandial changes in protein synthesis in red drum (Sciaenops acellatus) larvae.

    McCarthy, I. D. & Fuiman, L. A., 1 Meh 2011, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 214, 11, t. 1821-1828

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  2. Cyhoeddwyd

    The Welsh Torgoch (Salvelinus alpinus).

    McCarthy, I. D., 1 Ion 2004.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddPapur

  3. Cyhoeddwyd

    The use of stable isotopes in charr research.

    McCarthy, I. D., 1 Ion 2004.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddPapur

  4. Cyhoeddwyd

    Age, growth and maturity of tub gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna Linnaeus 1758: Triglidae) in the inshore coastal waters of Northwest Wales, UK

    McCarthy, I. & Marriott, A., Meh 2018, Yn: Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 34, 3, t. 581-589

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    The Welsh Torgoch (Salvelinus alpinus): a short review of its distribution and ecology.

    McCarthy, I. D., 1 Maw 2007, Yn: Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 16, 1, t. 34-40

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Determining the optimum temperature and salinity for larval culture, and describing a culture protocol for the conservation aquaculture for European smelt Osmerus eperlanus (L).

    McCarthy, I., Jones, N., Moore, D. & Berlinsky, D., Ion 2020, Yn: Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 36, 1, t. 113-120 8 t.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    Growth and protein metabolism in red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) larvae exposed to environmental levels of atrazine and malathion.

    McCarthy, I. D. & Fuiman, L. A., 30 Gorff 2008, Yn: Aquatic Toxicology. 88, 4, t. 220-229

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  8. Cyhoeddwyd

    Temporal repeatability of relative standard metabolic rate in juvenile Atlantic salmon and its relation to life history variation

    McCarthy, I. D., 1 Gorff 2000, Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 57, 1, t. 224-238

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  9. Cyhoeddwyd

    Competitive ability is related to metabolic asymmetry in juvenile rainbow trout.

    McCarthy, I. D., 1 Hyd 2001, Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 59, 4, t. 1002-1014

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    Elevated pCO2 does not impair performance in autotomised individuals of the intertidal predatory starfish Asterias rubens (Linnaeus, 1758)

    McCarthy, I., Whiteley, N., Fernandez, W., Ragagnin, M., Cornwell, T., Suckling, C. & Turra, A., Ion 2020, Yn: Marine Environmental Research. 153, 104841.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid