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Dr Emyr Martyn Roberts

Lecturer in Biological Oceanography

martyn.roberts@bangor.ac.uk

0000-0003-3650-2961

Dr Emyr Martyn Roberts

View Dr Emyr Martyn Roberts’s profile on the Bangor Research Portal

Additional Contact Information

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.

Qualifications

  • PhD: Physical Oceanography (Bangor University)
    2015
  • BSc: Ocean Science (Bangor University)
    2010
  • Other: Physics (University of Durham)
    2008

Teaching and Supervision

Teaching

  • Produced an undergraduate textbook 'Tides: A Very Short Introduction' (OUP, 2019) together with Prof. D.G. Bowers
  • Sponges lecture, BNS 1002 Organismal Diversity, Bangor University (2017)
  • Marine Optics Short Course, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique (2012)
  • Many and various teaching assistant/demonstrating/school's outreach roles.

Supervision

Nuffield Research Placement Students:

  • Bryn Harris (2016) - deep-sea research
  • Gokul Krishna (2017) - deep-sea research

NERC Research Experience Placement Students:

  • Richard Anderson (from Uni. Strathclyde; 2017) - water masses/sponge biogeography project

ERASMUS Research Internships:

  • Florian Barge (from ENSTA-Bretagne; 2022) - Arctic wind forcing changes with sea-ice decline

M.Sc. Students:

  • Christina Thiele (2013) - tidal light variation effects on the behaviour of starfish
  • Heidi Meyer (2017) - spatial patterns and community composition of an Arctic sponge ground
  • Mel Decker (2023) - Spatial distribution of the tidal modulation of seabed light
  • Seren Jones (2024) - Light and the foraging behaviour of diving seabirds

Ph.D. Students:

  • Heidi Meyer (2018-22) - Arctic deep-sea sponge ground ecosystems

Publications

2024

  • PublishedShifts 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 Jul 2024, In: Climate Dynamics. 62, 8, p. 8227-8253 27 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

  • PublishedBeyond 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 Jan 2023, In: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 191, 1 p., 103920.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

  • PublishedBiodiversity, 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. & 4 others, Schupp, P. J., Xavier, J., Rapp, H. T. & Hentschel, U., 2 Sept 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 5160 .
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedEnvironmental 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 Mar 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

  • PublishedClimate 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 Jan 2021, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 657, p. 1-23
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedLes Marées
    Bowers, D. & Roberts, E. M., 17 Jun 2021, EDP Sciences.
    Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
  • PublishedLong-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 Mar 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. 126, 3, e2020JC016776.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedWater 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 Feb 2021, In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. 659, p. 75-96
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

  • PublishedDrivers 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 Jun 2020, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedOn 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 Jul 2020, In: Biogeosciences. 17, 13, p. 3471-3486
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedSecchi Disk Measurements in Turbid Water
    Bowers, D. G., Roberts, E. M., Hoguane, A. M., Fall, K. A., Massey, G. M. & Friedrichs, C. T., May 2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 125, 5, 9 p., e2020JC016172.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedThe 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 Dec 2020, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 7
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedTides: A Very Short Introduction
    Bowers, D. & Roberts, E. M., 1 Feb 2020, Oxford University Press. 168 p. (Very Short Introductions)
    Research output: Book/Report › Book

2019

  • PublishedSpatial 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 Nov 2019, In: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 153, 103137, 103137.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2018

  • PublishedOceanographic 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., Aug 2018, In: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 138, August, p. 98-113
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedTidal modulation of seabed light and its implications for benthic algae
    Roberts, E., Bowers, D. & Davies, A., Jan 2018, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 63, 1, p. 91-106
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2014

  • PublishedSprings–neaps cycles in daily total seabed light: Daylength-induced changes
    Roberts, E. M., Bowers, D. G. & Davies, A. J., 1 Apr 2014, In: Journal of Marine Systems. 132, p. 116-129
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2013

  • PublishedWater masses, mixing, and the flow of dissolved organic carbon through the Irish Sea
    Bowers, D., Roberts, E., White, M. & Moate, B., 2013, In: Continental Shelf Research. 58, p. 12-20
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Projects

  • ReAct: Revealing Climate Change Activism and Bias in Environmental Scientists

    09/01/2023 – 30/04/2023 (Finished)

Other Grants and Projects

Grant Awards:

  • ‘Researcher like me…’ – Supporting diversity in our research community through relatable role models and exemplar pathways to success (2024) - £2000 - (PI: Emyr Martyn Roberts, Co-I: Prof. Shelagh Malham; Prof. Yueng-Djern Lenn; Dr. Lynda Yorke; Gwyn Roberts; Dr. Tracey Lloyd (all Bangor University); Prof. Philip Asare (University of Toronto, Canada)). HEFCW Enhancing Research Culture

  • ReAct - Revealing Climate Change Activism and Bias in Environmental Scientists (2023) - approx. £19,000 - NERC cross-discipline (Linguistics, Psychology, Ocean/Earth Sciences; PI: Emyr Martyn Roberts) research for Discovery Science

  • EQUINOR Industry-Sponsored Research Project (2019) - approx. 1,000,000 NOK - investigation of hydrothermal vent sites near mid-ocean ridges (proposal contribution; grant currently managed by Dr. Pedro Ribeiro, University of Bergen)
  • NERC Research Experience Placement Grant (2017) - approx. £2,500 - 8-week stipend for a student to work under my supervision mapping sponge species to water masses in the Nordic Seas

Projects (worked on):

  • NERC-NSF QUICCHE project (Jan-Mar 2024)
  • NERC-funded ArctiCONNECT project (2021-2023)
  • EU Horizon 2020-funded SponGES project (2016-2020)
  • NERC-funded BRITICE CHRONO and CLAM projects (2015-2016)
  • NERC-funded DTP project (Ph.D.; 2010-2015) - Tidal modulation of seabed light
  • NERC/MoD-funded project (2010) - Application of remote sensing to the measurement of marine particle sizes and their relation to turbulence.

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