Dr Martyn Roberts

Darlithydd

Contact info

Address:

309 Craig Mair

School of Ocean Sciences

Bangor University

Menai Bridge LL59 5AB

Wales, UK

 

Web: ResearchGate; Google Scholar

 

Overview: 

I am a lecturer in biological oceanography and an observational marine scientist with broad research interests lying at the interface between physical oceanography and marine ecology. I am interested in the following themes: marine optics and primary productivity; abiotic conditions and physical processes influencing the biogeography, structure, and function of marine ecosystems (both on the continental shelf and in the deep ocean); physical oceanographic phenomena and marine animal behaviour; ocean structure and circulation, global ocean change, and their implications for climate regulation and biophysical ecology.

I have a background in physics and ocean sciences, completing a Ph.D. (Bangor University, Wales) in 2015 on tidal modulation of seabed light and its implications for benthic algae. I completed post-docs in deep-sea research at Bangor and at the University of Bergen (Norway), before returning to the UK to work on an ocean-atmosphere climate change project, ArctiCONNECT (Bangor-Oxford), and an Agulhas leakage project, QUICCHE (Bangor). My lectureship at Bangor commenced in 2024.

 

Research Areas: Marine Ecology; Ocean Physics; Earth System Science and Climate Change.

 

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    Beyond the tip of the seamount: Distinct megabenthic communities found beyond the charismatic summit sponge ground on an arctic seamount (Schulz Bank, Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge)

    Meyer, H. K., Davies, A. J., Roberts, E. M., Xavier, J. R., Ribeiro, P. A., Glenner, H., Birkely, S.-R. & Rapp, H. T., 1 Ion 2023, Yn: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 191, 1 t., 103920.

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    Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome

    Busch, K., Slaby, B. M., Bach, W., Boetius, A., Clefsen, I., Colaço, A., Creemers, M., Cristobo, J., Federwisch, L., Franke, A., Gavriilidou, A., Hethke, A., Kenchington, E., Mienis, F., Mills, S., Riesgo, A., Ríos, P., Roberts, E. M., Sipkema, D., Pita, L., Schupp, P. J., Xavier, J., Rapp, H. T. & Hentschel, U., 2 Medi 2022, Yn: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 5160 .

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  4. Climate change winner in the deep sea? Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii

    Beazley, L., Kenchington, E., Murillo, F. J., Brickman, D., Wang, Z., Davies, A. J., Roberts, E. M. & Rapp, H. T., 7 Ion 2021, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 657, t. 1-23

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  5. Drivers of Megabenthic Community Structure in One of the World's Deepest Silled-Fjords, Sognefjord (Western Norway)

    Meyer, H. K., Roberts, E. M., Mienis, F. & Rapp, H. T., 9 Meh 2020, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7

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  6. Environmental Change at Deep-Sea Sponge Habitats Over the Last Half Century: A Model Hindcast Study for the Age of Anthropogenic Climate Change

    Samuelsen, A., Schrum, C., Yumruktepe, V. C., Daewel, U. & Roberts, E. M., 24 Maw 2022, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9

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  7. Long-term Observations Reveal Environmental Conditions and Food Supply Mechanisms at an Arctic Deep-Sea Sponge Ground

    Hanz, U., Roberts, E. M., Duineveld, G., Davies, A., van Haren, H., Rapp, H. T., Reichart, G.-J. & Mienis, F., 1 Maw 2021, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. 126, 3, e2020JC016776.

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    Oceanographic setting and short-timescale environmental variability at an Arctic seamount sponge ground

    Roberts, E., Mienis, F., Rapp, H. T., Hans, U., Meyer, H. & Davies, A., Awst 2018, Yn: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 138, August, t. 98-113

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  9. On giant shoulders: how a seamount affects the microbial community composition of seawater and sponges

    Busch, K., Hanz, U., Mienis, F., Mueller, B., Franke, A., Roberts, E. M., Rapp, H. T. & Hentschel, U., 8 Gorff 2020, Yn: Biogeosciences. 17, 13, t. 3471-3486

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    Secchi Disk Measurements in Turbid Water

    Bowers, D. G., Roberts, E. M., Hoguane, A. M., Fall, K. A., Massey, G. M. & Friedrichs, C. T., Mai 2020, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 125, 5, 9 t., e2020JC016172.

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    Shifts from surface density compensation to projected warming, freshening and stronger stratification in the subpolar North Atlantic

    Marsh, R., Dey, D., Lenn, Y.-D. & Roberts, E. M., 17 Gorff 2024, Yn: Climate Dynamics. 62, 8, t. 8227-8253 27 t.

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    Spatial patterns of arctic sponge ground fauna and demersal fish are detectable in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imagery

    Meyer, H. K., Roberts, E. M., Rapp, H. T. & Davies, A., 1 Tach 2019, Yn: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 153, 103137, 103137.

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    Springs–neaps cycles in daily total seabed light: Daylength-induced changes

    Roberts, E. M., Bowers, D. G. & Davies, A. J., 1 Ebr 2014, Yn: Journal of Marine Systems. 132, t. 116-129

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  14. The First Cut Is the Deepest: Trawl Effects on a Deep-Sea Sponge Ground Are Pronounced Four Years on

    Morrison, K. M., Meyer, H. K., Roberts, E. M., Rapp, H. T., Colaco, A. & Pham, C. K., 23 Rhag 2020, Yn: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7

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  15. Cyhoeddwyd

    Tidal modulation of seabed light and its implications for benthic algae

    Roberts, E., Bowers, D. & Davies, A., Ion 2018, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 63, 1, t. 91-106

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    Water masses constrain the distribution of deep-sea sponges in the North Atlantic Ocean and Nordic Seas

    Roberts, E. M., Bowers, D. G., Meyer, H. K., Samuelsen, A., Rapp, H. T. & Cardenas, P., 4 Chwef 2021, Yn: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 659, t. 75-96

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    Water masses, mixing, and the flow of dissolved organic carbon through the Irish Sea

    Bowers, D., Roberts, E., White, M. & Moate, B., 2013, Yn: Continental Shelf Research. 58, t. 12-20

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    Tides: A Very Short Introduction

    Bowers, D. & Roberts, E. M., 1 Chwef 2020, Oxford University Press. 168 t. (Very Short Introductions)

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    Les Marées

    Bowers, D. & Roberts, E. M., 17 Meh 2021, EDP Sciences.

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