Room: 213 Marine Centre Wales     Phone: +44 (0)1248 382816

Email: l.grange@bangor.ac.uk

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Laura graduated in Oceanography with Marine Biology from the University of Southampton in 2001. She remained at the University of Southampton for a further three years undertaking a PhD in the reproductive success of Antarctic marine invertebrates from which she graduated in 2005. Following my PhD, Laura worked as a Marine Environmental Consultant at the Centre for Marine and Coastal Studies (CMACS Ltd) in Birkenhead, Liverpool. Here, she was tasked with undertaking inshore and offshore surveys, laboratory analyses and report writing to inform environmental impact assessments for a diversity of coastal and offshore developments. In 2009 Laura moved to the Department of Oceanography (Marine Sciences) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa to undertake a postdoctoral scholarship, where she worked on two projects focussed on the impacts of climate change on ecological processes in Antarctic seafloor ecosystems. Among other things, these projects involved exploring the link between pelagic and benthic systems under changing environmental conditions, and investigating the evolution of seafloor communities in response to changes in ice cover. During this time, she was appointed to a part-time Assistant Professor position and tasked with developing the first Marine Biology graduate programme in Hawai'i. In 2013 Laura was appointed a Teaching Fellow in Marine Biology in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, where she delivered a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Following on from this appointment, Laura was promoted to Lecturer in Marine Biology and continued to engage in a variety of teaching and scholarship activities across the University. In 2018 she was appointed Lecturer in Marine Biology at Bangor University and moved to the School of Ocean Sciences in Menai Bridge, where Laura is the Senior and Disability Tutor.

Laura is a benthic marine ecologist, with a specialism in the Polar Regions. Her primary research interests focus on using benthic systems as models to investigate marine ecological and biological theory against a backdrop of changing environmental conditions, and evaluating benthic ecosystem responses to climate change. Particular areas of interest include the population consequences of ocean warming on the seasonal and inter-annual reproductive ecology of Antarctic marine invertebrates, and the reproductive resilience of Arctic marine invertebrates to environmental variability associated with changing sea ice conditions (The Changing Arctic Ocean Seafloor (ChAOS)).

• BSc: Oceanography with Marine Biology
  University of Southampton,
• PhD: The Reproductive Success in Antarctic Marine Invertebrates
  University of Southampton,

I teach across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the School of Ocean Sciences. The main focus of my teaching is benthic marine ecology and extreme marine habitats.

I currently supervise 1 PhD student as lead supervisor:

Christina Wood - Species resilience, pasticity and adaptation to environmental change. Commenced October 2016. Co-supervisor: Jasmin Godbold (University of Southampton), Clement Garcia (CEFAS), Stefan Bolam (CEFAS). GSNOCS Mayflower Scholarship.

I currently supervise one MRes student as lead supervisor:

Miles Ellis - Plastics at the Poles: Unwrapping the evidence using a time series study of microplastics. Commenced October 2023. Co-supervisor: Professor David Jones (Bangor University), Dr Christian Dunn (Bangor University). External contributors: Professor Lloyd Peck (British Antarctic Survey), Dr Ben Wigham (Newcastle University). HEFCW scholarship.

I have taken three PhD students to completion (one as lead supervisor): 

Camilla Cassidy - The effect of environmental variation on species functional traits. Completed June 2020. Co-supervisors: Jasmin Godbold - Lead (University of Southampton), Clement Garcia (CEFAS), Stefan Bolam (CEFAS). NERC SPITFIRE DTP.

Ben Robinson - The ecology of Antarctic benthic communities down to 100 m depth: Disturbance, diversity and succession. Completed January 2022. Co-supervisors: Simon Morley - Lead (BAS), David Barnes (BAS), Martin Solan (University of Southampton). NERC SPITFIRE DTP.

Rebecca de Leij - Impacts of rapid environmental change on the reproduction and fertilisation dynamics of marine invertebrates, using an urchin model. Completed February 2022. Co-supervisors: Lloyd Peck (BAS), Clive Trueman (University of Southampton). NERC SPITFIRE DTP.

Marine Ecology

2023

• PublishedMicroplastics in European sea salts – An example of exposure through consumer choice and of interstudy methodological discrepancies
  Thiele, C., Grange, L., Haggett, E., Hudson, M., Hudson, P., Russell, A. & Zapata-Restrepo, L. M., 15 Apr 2023, In: Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 255, 114782.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Accepted/In pressSupporting STEM Students’ Self-Regulatory Skills through Developing their Assessment Literacy and Evaluative Judgement Capabilities
  Grange, L., Evans, C. & Zhu, X., Sep 2023, (Accepted/In press) Research Handbook on Innovations in Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: Implications for Teaching and Learning. Evans, C. & Waring, M. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2022

• PublishedBiogeochemical consequences of a changing Arctic shelf seafloor ecosystem
  Marz, C., Freitas, F., Faust, J., Godbold, J., Henley, S., Tessin, A., Arndt, S., Barnes, D., Grange, L., Gray, N., Head, I., Hendry, K., Hilton, R., Reed, A., Rhul, S., Solan, M., Souster, T., Stevenson, M., Tait, K. & Widdicombe, S., Feb 2022, In: AMBIO. 51, 2, p. 370–382 13 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedFunctional thermal limits are determined by rate of warming during simulated marine heatwaves
  De Leij, R., Grange, L. & Peck, L. S., 10 Mar 2022, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 685, p. 183-196
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe extremes of disturbance reduce functional redundancy: Functional trait assessment of the shallow Antarctic benthos
  Robinson, B., Barnes, D., Grange, L. & Morley, S. A., 17 Feb 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 8, 797112.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• PublishedGrowth of marine ectotherms is regionally constrained and asymmetric with latitude
  Reed, A. J., Godbold, J., Grange, L. & Solan, M., Mar 2021, In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30, 3, p. 578-589
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedIntermediate ice scour disturbance is key to maintaining a peak in biodiversity within the shallows of the Western Antarctic Peninsula
  Robinson, B., Barnes, D., Grange, L. & Morley, S., 18 Aug 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, 16712.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedInvariant Gametogenic Response of Dominant Infaunal Bivalves From the Arctic Under Ambient and Near-Future Climate Change Conditions
  Reed, A. J., Godbold, J., Solan, M. & Grange, L., 25 Feb 2021, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 8, 576746.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedMultiyear trend in reproduction underpins interannual variation in gametogenic development of an Antarctic urchin.
  De Leij, R., Peck, L. S. & Grange, L., 22 Sep 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, 18868.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedReproductive traits and population dynamics of benthic invertebrates indicate episodic recruitment patterns across an Arctic polar front
  Reed, A. J., Godbold, J., Solan, M. & Grange, L., Jun 2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 11, p. 6900-6912 13 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• PublishedClimate driven benthic invertebrate activity and biogeochemical functioning across the Barents Sea Polar Front
  Solan, M., Ward, E., Wood, C., Reed, A. J., Grange, L. & Godbold, J., 2 Oct 2020, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 378, 2181, 20190365.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedSpecies interactions and environmental context affect intraspecific behavioural trait variation and ecosystem function
  Cassidy, C., Grange, L., Garcia, C., Bolam, S. & Godbold, J., 29 Jan 2020, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 287, 1919, 20192143.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2019

• PublishedEcological role of an offshore industry artificial structure
  Gates, A., Serpell-Stevens, A., Chandler, C., Horton, T., Grange, L., Robert, K., Bevan, A. & Jones, D., 12 Nov 2019, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 6, 14 p., 675.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedEvaluating assessment feedback in Higher Education: Principles of good practice
  Grange, L., Jul 2019.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
• PublishedProblems in the field: Using formative field-skills training to improve student outcomes
  Grange, L., Harding, I., Zhu, X., Chiorean, C. & Evans, C., Jul 2019.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

2018

• PublishedThe reproductive ecology of the Antarctic bivalve Aequiyoldia eightsii (Protobranchia: Sareptidae) follows neither Antarctic nor taxonomic patterns
  Lau, S. C. Y., Grange, L. J., Peck, L. S. & Reed, A. J., 1 Sep 2018, In: Polar Biology. 41, 9, p. 1693-1706
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2017

• PublishedHigh Abundance of the Epibenthic Trachymedusa Ptychogastria polaris Allman, 1878 (Hydrozoa, Trachylina) in Subpolar Fjords along the West Antarctic Peninsula
  Grange, L. J., Smith, C. R., Lindsay, D. J., Bentlage, B. & Youngbluth, M. J., 4 Jan 2017, In: PLoS ONE. 12, 1
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe role of gorgonians as engineering species in the diversity and composition of benthic communities
  Corbera, G., Dominguez-Carrio, C., Grange, L., Ambroso, S. & Gili, J-M., 2017.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review

2013

• PublishedMegafaunal Communities in Rapidly Warming Fjords along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Hotspots of Abundance and Beta Diversity
  Grange, L. J. & Smith, C. R., 3 Dec 2013, In: PLoS ONE. 8, 12
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2012

• PublishedA large population of king crabs in Palmer Deep on the west Antarctic Peninsula shelf and potential invasive impacts
  Smith, C. R., Grange, L. J., Honig, D. L., Naudts, L., Huber, B., Guidi, L. & Domack, E., 7 Mar 2012, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279, 1730, p. 1017-1026
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedPelagic-benthic coupling, food banks, and climate change on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf
  Smith, C. R., DeMaster, D. J., Thomas, C., Srsen, P., Grange, L., Evrard, V. & DeLeo, F., Sep 2012, In: Oceanography. 25, 3, p. 188-201
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2011

• PublishedFertilization success of the circumpolar Antarctic Seastar Odontaster validus: A diver-collected study
  Grange, L., Tyler, P. & Peck, L., 2011, Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences 30th Symposium. Pollock, N. W. (ed.). p. 140-151 12 p.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
• PublishedMulti-year observations on the gametogenic ecology of the Antarctic seastar Odontaster validus (vol 153, pg 15, 2007)
  Grange, L. J., Tyler, P. A. & Peck, L. S., Jul 2011, In: Marine Biology. 158, 7, p. 1681-1681
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedReproductive ecology of the circumpolar Antarctic nemertean Parborlasia corrugatus: No evidence for inter-annual variation
  Grange, L. J., Peck, L. S. & Tyler, P. A., 31 Jul 2011, In: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 404, 1-2, p. 98-107
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2007

• PublishedMulti-year observations on the gametogenic ecology of the Antarctic seastar Odontaster validus
  Grange, L. J., Tyler, P. A. & Peck, L. S., Nov 2007, In: Marine Biology. 153, 1, p. 15-23
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2004

• PublishedLong-term interannual cycles of the gametogenic ecology of the Antarctic brittle star Ophionotus victoriae
  Grange, LJ., Tyler, PA., Peck, LS. & Cornelius, N., 2004, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 278, p. 141-155
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review