Dr Ian McCarthy
Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil
Contact info
Room: Room 108A, Nuffield Fish Lab
Phone: 01248 382862
E-mail: i.mccarthy@bangor.ac.uk
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:
- growth and energetics of aquatic animals (in particular protein synthesis/turnover, trade offs in energy allocation and physiological capacity to survive environmental change)
- Consistency of individual physiological and behavioural performance and impacts on life history strategies and fitness
- use of chemical tags (isotopes and trace elements) to examine feeding ecology and movement patterns
- population biology and management of temperate marine fisheries
- Cyhoeddwyd
Individuals Maintain Similar Rates of Protein Synthesis Over Time on the Same Plane of Nutrition Under Controlled Environmental Conditions
McCarthy, I. D., Owen, S. F., Watt, P. W. & Houlihan, D. F., 28 Maw 2016, Yn: PLoS ONE. 11, 3, t. e0152239Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Identifying migratory Salmo trutta using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios
McCarthy, I. D. & Waldron, S., 15 Awst 2000, Yn: Rapid communications in Mass Spectrometry. 14, 15, t. 1325-1331Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Aroclor 1254 affects growth and survival skills of Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) larvae.
McCarthy, I. D., Fuiman, L. E. & Alvarez, M. C., 1 Ebr 2003, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 252, t. 295-301Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 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. 34-40Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Validation of the flooding dose technique to determine fractional rates of protein synthesis in a model bivalve species, the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis L.)
McCarthy, I. D., Nicholls, R., Malham, S. K. & Whiteley, N. M., 23 Hyd 2015, Yn: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology. 191, t. 166-173Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 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. 224-238Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 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. 1002-1014Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 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. 1821-1828Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
The Welsh Torgoch (Salvelinus alpinus).
McCarthy, I. D., 1 Ion 2004.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
- Cyhoeddwyd
A stable isotope analysis of trophic polymorphism among Arctic charr from Loch Ericht, Scotland
McCarthy, I. D., Fraser, D., Waldron, S. & Adams, C. E., 1 Tach 2004, Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 65, 5, t. 1435-1440Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid