Room: Marine Centre Wales (MCW) Floor 2

Email: osp82d@bangor.ac.uk

Twitter: @JThorpe_MOSSS

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jamie-Thorpe

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-thorpe-46ab9384/

My research focusses on climate change and conservation to meet the ever-increasing challenges on the natural world. Specifically, I am interested in multi-disciplinary research that involves close consultation with stakeholders to facilitate environmental restoration and make current anthropogenic practices more sustainable. I believe a combination of practical work and molecular research are key to achieving this.

I am a researcher on the Seas of Change project, which aims to develop an offshore mussel farming system in the Menai Strait, North Wales to meet future challenges to food security using cleaner and more sustainable practices. In my role I am developing research into monitoring temporal changes to planktonic shellfish compositions in North and South Wales using q-RT PCR methods. This is proving vital in understanding mussel settlement, feeding and production. I also undertake regular ship-based observation work at our offshore site and collect intertidal mussel samples for spawning analysis.

• MSc: Marine Environmental Protection
  2017
• BSc: Marine and Freshwater Biology
  Aberystwyth University, 2015

Marine Biology

Shellfish Aquaculture

Shellfish Disease

Plankton

Molecular Ecology

Conservation

Climate Change

2022

• E-pub ahead of printConsistency and Variation in the Kelp Microbiota: Patterns of Bacterial Community Structure Across Spatial Scales
  King, N., Moore, P. J., Thorpe, J. & Smale, D., 20 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Microbial Ecology.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• PublishedClimate change accelerates range expansion of the invasive non-native species, the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas.
  King, N., Wilmes, S-B., Smyth, D., Tinker, J., Robins, P., Thorpe, J., Jones, L. & Malham, S., Feb 2021, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 78, 1, p. 70-81 70-81.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedConcentration and Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Wastewater Using Polyethylene Glycol-Based Concentration and qRT-PCR.(vol 4, 17, 2021)
  Farkas, K., Hillary, L. S., Thorpe, J., Walker, D. I., Lowther, J. A., McDonald, J. E., Malham, S. K. & Jones, D. L., 12 Nov 2021, In: Methods and Protocols. 4, 4
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedConcentration and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater using polyethylene glycol-based concentration and qRT-PCR
  Farkas, K., Hillary, L., Thorpe, J., Walker, D., Lowther, J. A., McDonald, J., Malham, S. & Jones, D. L., 23 Feb 2021, In: Methods and Protocols. 4, 1, 10 p., 17.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedMonitoring SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater to evaluate the success of lockdown measures for controlling COVID-19 in the UK
  Hillary, L. S., Farkas, K., Maher, K. H., Lucaci, A., Thorpe, J., Distaso, M. A., Gaze, W. H., Paterson, S., Burke, T., Connor, T. R., McDonald, J. E., Malham, S. K. & Jones, D. L., 15 Jul 2021, In: Water Research. 200, p. 117214 1 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review