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
- 2008
- Cyhoeddwyd
Sharks vs. the rest of the world: lipid extraction and stable isotopes.
Hussey, N. E., McCarthy, I. D., Dudley, S. F. & Fisk, A. T., 1 Ion 2008.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
- Cyhoeddwyd
Stomach contents and stable isotopes: trophic ecology of a carcharhinid and a sphyrnid off south east Africa.
Hussey, N. E., McCarthy, I. D., Cliff, G. C., Dudley, S. F. & Fisk, A. T., 1 Ion 2008.Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadledd › Papur
- Cyhoeddwyd
Isolation and characterization of 12 dinucleotide microsatellite loci in the anadromous fish Osmerus eperlanus (L.)
Taylor, A. N., Taylor, M. I., McCarthy, I. D. & Beaumont, A. R., 1 Mai 2008, Yn: Molecular Ecology Resources. 8, 3, t. 581-583Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
The growth of a Welsh strain of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus (L.) and investigations into its aquaculture potential.
Berrill, I. K. & McCarthy, I. D., 1 Meh 2008, Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 72, 10, t. 2700-2706Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Strategies for using population genetic markers in the European sentinel flatfish species Dab (Limanda limanda)
Lyons, B. P., Tysklind, N., Stentiford, G. D., Feist, S. W., Taylor, M. I., McCarthy, I. D. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Gorff 2008, Yn: Marine Environmental Research. 66, 1, t. 179-180Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 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. 220-229Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- 2009
- Cyhoeddwyd
Short-term size-specific distribution and movement patterns of juvenile flatfish in a Pacific estuary derived through length-frequency and mark-recapture data.
Herzka, S. Z., Griffiths, R., Fodrie, F. J. & McCarthy, I. D., 1 Maw 2009, Yn: Ciencias Marinas. 35, 1, t. 41-57Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
The condition conundrum: application of multiple condition indices to the dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus
Hussey, N. E., Cocks, D. T., Dudley, S. F., McCarthy, I. D. & Wintner, S. P., 7 Ebr 2009, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 380, t. 199-212Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Development of 30 microsatellite markers for dab (Limanda limanda L.): a key UK marine biomonitoring species.
Tysklind, N., Taylor, M. I., Lyons, B. P., McCarthy, I. D. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Mai 2009, Yn: Molecular Ecology Resources. 9, 3, t. 951-955Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
- Cyhoeddwyd
Isolation and characterization of 28 new microsatellite markers for European flounder (Platichthys flesus L.)
Tysklind, N., Neuparth, T., Ashcroft, G. R., Taylor, M. I., Lyons, B. P., McCarthy, I. D. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Mai 2009, Yn: Molecular Ecology Resources. 9, 3, t. 1065-1068Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid