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

    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

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  2. Cyhoeddwyd

    Genetic markers in biomonitoring programmes: providing a population structure framework for data interpretation.

    Tysklind, N., Lyons, B. P., Taylor, M. I., McCarthy, I. D. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Ion 2008.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddPapur

  3. Cyhoeddwyd

    Gastropod shell size and architecture influence the applicability of methods used to estimate internal volume

    Ragagnin, M., Gorman, D., McCarthy, I., Sant'Anna, B., Campi de Castro, C. & Turra, A., 11 Ion 2018, Yn: Scientific Reports. 8, 440.

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  4. Cyhoeddwyd

    Fish scale δ15N and δ13C values provide biogeochemical tags of fish comparable in performance to element concentrations in scales and otoliths

    Ramsay, A. L., Milner, N. J., Hughes, R. N. & McCarthy, I. D., 1 Medi 2012, Yn: Hydrobiologia. 694, 1, t. 183-196

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  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    Evolutionary implications of pollutants on genetic variability of sentinel bioindicator flatfish.

    Tysklind, N., Lyons, B. P., Taylor, M. I., McCarthy, I. D. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Ion 2006.

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  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Evolutionary implications of pollutants on genetic variability of sentinel bioindicator flatfish

    Tysklind, N., Neuparth, T., Lyons, B. P., Taylor, M. I., McCarthy, I. D. & Carvalho, G. R., 1 Ion 2007.

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  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    Evaluating ultrasonography as a non-lethal method for the assessment of maturity in oviparous elasmobranchs.

    Whittamore, J. M., Bloomer, C., Hanna, G. M. & McCarthy, I. D., 1 Rhag 2010, Yn: Marine Biology. 157, 12, t. 2613-2624

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    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.

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  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    Effects of Aroclor 1254 on the growth, survival and behaviour of European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, larvae.

    Doggett, M., McCarthy, I. D., Kaiser, M. J. & Mudge, S. M., 1 Ion 2005.

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