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Dr Adel Heenan

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

a.heenan@bangor.ac.uk

0000-0002-8307-5352

Dr Adel Heenan

View Dr Adel Heenan’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Overview

Room: 325 Westbury Mount    Phone: 01248 382898

E-mail: a.heenan@bangor.ac.uk

Web: Google Scholar  ResearchGate

In 2003, I obtained a B.Sc. in Zoology at the University of Edinburgh and an M.Sc. in Tropical Coastal Management at Newcastle University upon Tyne in 2004.  After my MSc I worked for the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Shark Specialist Group, contributing to Red Listing and CITES processes for species of Sharks, Skates and Rays. From 2006-2010 I did a PhD on the settlement behavior of larval coral reef fish, working at the Lizard Island research station on an Australian Museum Doctoral Fellowship, as well as in Indonesia and the Philippines. After my PhD, I worked as a marine ecologist, communicating scientific information to the Irish Sea Conservation Zone (ISCZ) stakeholder group, one of the regional projects in the UK national ecological network of marine conservation areas. From 2011-2017 I was based at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Honolulu, Hawaii where I worked as an applied scientist for a long-term monitoring program. In that role, my time was split between collecting and analyzing a large-scale coral reef ecosystem monitoring dataset and capacity building for the implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM). In 2017 I took a Ser Cymru fellowship at the School of Ocean Sciences. This is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 663830.

I am now a full time lecturer at the School of Ocean Sciences, where my research focuses on modelling coral reef fishes to try and understand how coral reef ecosystems function and how humans interact with them. In my previous role at NOAA I had the extraordinary opportunity to dive on some of the most remote and pristine coral reefs on the planet. Doing so gave me an appreciation for the need to understand natural variation in ecosystem state due to the physical environment, in order to better understand and manage human activities. I have a strong interest in the information and data needs that can enable sustainable fisheries, and how we can put an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management into practice. This includes implementing collaborative and integrated monitoring, with reproducible and standardized methods and data management protocols, as well as validating novel indicators for a whole system perspective.

Research Areas

  • Marine Conservation and Resource Management
  • Marine Ecology

Qualifications

  • MSc
    Newcastle University,
  • BSc
    University of Edinburgh,
  • PhD
    University of Edinburgh,

Postgraduate Project Opportunities

I'd be happy to hear from those interested in applying for a fellowships or studentships, so do get in touch if you are. If you're looking for a PhD, then send an email with your CV and an outline of the sort of project you might be interested in doing.

Publications

2024

  • PublishedCumulative trophic curves elucidate tropical coral reef ecosystems
    Link, J., Pranovi, F., Kindinger, T., Heenan, A. & Tanaka, K., 4 Jan 2024, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 10
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

  • PublishedInternet trade of a previously unknown wildlife product from a critically endangered marine fish
    Pytka, J., Moore, A. & Heenan, A., Mar 2023, In: Conservation Science and Practice. 5, 3, e12896.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

  • PublishedLinking variation in planktonic primary production to coral reef fish growth and condition
    Roche, R., Heenan, A., Taylor, B. M., Schwarz, J. N., Fox, M. D., Southworth, L., Williams, G. & Turner, J., 31 Aug 2022, In: Royal Society Open Science. 9, 8, p. 201012 201012.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

  • PublishedSpatial and temporal scales of coral reef fish ecological research and management: a systematic map protocol
    Lawrence, A., Heenan, A., Levine, A., Haddaway, N., Powell, F., Wedding, L., Roche, R., Lawrence, P., Szostek, C., Ford, H., Southworth, L., Sannassy Pilly, J., Richardson, L. & Williams, G. J., 25 Jan 2021, In: Environmental Evidence. 10, 3.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

  • PublishedNatural variation in coral reef trophic structure across environmental gradients
    Heenan, A., Williams, G. & Williams, I., Mar 2020, In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 18, 2, p. 69-75
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

  • PublishedAchieving social and ecological goals of coastal management through integrated monitoring
    Wongbusarakum, S., Brown, V., Loerzel, A., Gorstein, M., Kleiber, D., Quinata, M., Iwane, M. & Heenan, A., Nov 2019, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 56, 11, p. 2400-2409 10 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedCoral reef ecology in the Anthropocene
    Williams, G. J., Graham, N. A. J., Jouffray, J.-B., Norstrom, A. V., Nystrom, M., Gove, J. M., Heenan, A. & Wedding, L. M., Jun 2019, In: Functional Ecology. 33, 6, p. 1014-1022
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

  • PublishedEcological Impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño in the Central Equatorial Pacific
    Brainard, R. E., Oliver, T., McPhaden, M. J., Cohen, A., Venegas, R., Heenan, A., Vargas-Ángel, B., Rotjan, R., Mangubhai, S., Flint, E. & Hunter, S. A., Jan 2018, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99, 1, p. S21-S26
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedIntegrated Monitoring with SocMon/SEM-Pasifika: Principles and Process
    Heenan, A. & Wongbusarakum, S., 2018
    Research output: Book/Report › Other report
  • PublishedLocal Biomass Baselines and the Recovery Potential for Hawaiian Coral Reef Fish Communities: Hawaiian Reef Fish Recovery Potential
    Gorospe, K., Donahue, M., Heenan, A., Gove, J., Williams, I. & Brainard, R., 9 May 2018, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 5, 162.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedUsing Participatory Methods to Assess Data Poor Migrant Fisheries in Kenya
    Ngao Wanyongi, I., Macharia, D., Heenan, A. & Mangi, S., 2018, In: Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 23, 6, p. 569-586
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2017

  • PublishedLong-term monitoring of coral reef fish assemblages in the Western central pacific
    Heenan, A., Williams, I. D., Acoba, T., DesRochers, A., Kosaki, R. K., Kanemura, T., Nadon, M. O. & Brainard, R. E., Dec 2017, In: Scientific data. 4, 170176.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

  • PublishedEcosystem monitoring for ecosystem-based management: using a polycentric approach to balance information trade-offs
    Heenan, A., Gorospe, K., Williams, I., Levine, A., Maurin, P., Nadon, M., Oliver, T., Rooney, J., Timmers, M., Wongbusarakum, S. & Brainard, R., 13 May 2016, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 53, 3, p. 699-704
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedNatural bounds on herbivorous coral reef fishes
    Heenan, A., Hoey, A. S., Williams, G. & Williams, I. D., 23 Nov 2016, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B.. 283, 1843
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

  • PublishedA climate-informed, ecosystem approach to fisheries management
    Heenan, A., Pomeroy, R., Bell, J., Munday, P. L., Cheung, W., Logan, C., Brainard, R., Amri, A. Y., Alino, P., Armada, N., David, L., Rivera-Guieb, R., Green, S., Jompa, J., Leonardo, T., Mamauag, S., Parker, B., Shackeroff, J. & Yasin, Z., Jul 2015, In: Marine Policy. 57, p. 182-192
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedHuman, Oceanographic and Habitat Drivers of Central and Western Pacific Coral Reef Fish Assemblages
    Williams, I. D., Baum, J. K., Heenan, A., Hanson, K. M., Nadon, M. O. & Brainard, R. E., 1 Apr 2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 4, e0120516.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2013

  • PublishedMonitoring Herbivorous Fishes as Indicators of Coral Reef Resilience in American Samoa
    Heenan, A. & Williams, I. D., 6 Nov 2013, In: PLoS ONE. 8, 11, e79604.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2009

  • PublishedRestoring depleted coral-reef fish populations through recruitment enhancement: a proof of concept
    Heenan, A., Meekan, M. G., Healy, S. D., Simpson, S. & Braithwaite, V. A., Nov 2009, In: Journal of Fish Biology. 75, 7, p. 1857-67 11 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Activities

2017

  • How open data can help the world better manage coral reefs

    2017

    Links:

    • https://theconversation.com/how-open-data-can-help-the-world-better-manage-coral-reefs-88805
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

2016

  • Jazz-band ecosystem monitoring

    2016

    Links:

    • https://jappliedecologyblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/jazz-band-ecosystem-monitoring/
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)
  • Understanding the conditions that foster coral reef caretakers

    2016

    Links:

    • https://theconversation.com/understanding-the-conditions-that-foster-coral-reefs-caretaker-fishes-69195
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

2015

  • Measuring coral reef fishes by taking humans out of the picture

    2015

    Links:

    • https://theconversation.com/measuring-coral-reef-fishes-by-taking-humans-out-of-the-picture-40213
    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation (Contributor)

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