Dr Ian McCarthy
Reader in Marine Biology
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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
- Published
Distribution of ampullary pores on three catshark species (Apristurus spp.) suggest a vertical-ambush predatory behaviour
Moore, D. M. & McCarthy, I. D., 9 Oct 2014, In: Aquatic Biology. 21, p. 261-265Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Life history strategies and protein metabolism in overwintering juvenile Atlantic salmon: growth is enhanced in early migrants through lower protein turnover.
Morgan, I. J., McCarthy, I. D. & Metcalfe, N. B., 1 Mar 2000, In: Journal of Fish Biology. 56, 3, p. 637-647Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The influence of life-history strategy on lipid metabolism in overwintering juvenile Atlantic salmon.
Morgan, I. J., McCarthy, I. D. & Metcalfe, N. B., 1 Mar 2002, In: Journal of Fish Biology. 60, 3, p. 674-686Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The effect of dietary flumequine on food consumption and growth in rainbow trout
Moutou, K. A., McCarthy, I. D. & Houlihan, D. F., 1 Jan 2001, In: Aquaculture International. 9, 1, p. 95-102Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
- Published
Using modeling to link the effects of contaminants on larval fish behavior to ecologically relevant endpoints.
Murphy, C. A., Rose, K. A., Fuiman, L. A., Alvarez, M. C., McCarthy, I. D., Diamond, S. L. & Thomas, P., 1 Jan 2005.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
- Published
Tracking the Fine Scale Movements of Fish using Autonomous Maritime Robotics: A Systematic State of the Art Review
Nash, J. Z., Teahan, W., Bond, J., McCarthy, I., Pierce, I., Case, M. & Mowat, R., 1 Jun 2021, In: Ocean Engineering. 229, 108650.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stable isotope signatures reveal small-scale spatial separation in populations of European sea bass
Overy, T. L., Cambie, G., Kaiser, M. J., Marriott, A. L., Fox, J., Lambert, G., Hiddink, J. G., Overy, T., Bennet, S. A., Leng, M. J. & McCarthy, I. D., 21 Mar 2016, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 546, p. 213-223Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Timing of first feeding and life history strategies in salmon: Genetic data.
Pineda, H., Borrell, Y. J., McCarthy, I. D., Vazquez, E., Sanchez, J. A. & Blanco, G., 1 Sept 2003, In: Hereditas. 139, 1, p. 41-48Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Occurrence of legacy and emerging organic pollutants in whitemouth croakers from Southeastern Brazil
Pizzochero, A. C., de la Torre, A., Sanz, P., Navarro, I., Michel, L., Lepoint, G., Das, K., Schnitzler, J., Chenery, S., McCarthy, I., Malm, O., Dorneles, P. & Martinez, M. A., 10 Sept 2019, In: Science of the Total Environment. 682, p. 719-728 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Use of multi-element stable isotope ratios to investigate ontogenetic movements of Micropogonias furnieri in a tropical Brazilian estuary
Pizzochero, A. C., Michel, L. N., Chenery, S., McCarthy, I., Vianna, M., Malm, O., Lepoint, G., Das, K. & Dorneles, P. R., Jun 2018, In: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 75, 6, p. 977-986Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review