I currently work with Professor Hilary Kennedy on Carbon sequestration in BLUe EcoSystems (C-BLUES), a Horizon Europe Framework project. Our research focuses on the current reporting of Blue Carbon Ecosystems in national greenhouse gas inventories, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 

Position: Postdoctoral Research Officer -Blue Carbon Ecosystems

Email: e.ward@bangor.ac.uk

Location: Marine Centre Wales, School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge

• PhD: Assessing the capacity of seagrass meadows in the Solent (UK) for blue carbon sequestration
  University of Portsmouth, 2024

2025

• PublishedA marine and salt marsh sediment organic carbon database for European regional seas (EURO-CARBON)
  EURO-CARBON: Ella Logemann, Paolo Magni, Núria Marbà, Candela Marco-Mendez, Marcio Martins, Miguel Angel Mateo, Briac Monnier, Peter Mueller, Joao M. Neto, Nafsika Papageorgiou, Carlos Eduardo de Rezende, Juan Carlos Farias Pardo, Jose Antonio Juanes De La Peña, Gérard Pergent, Nerea Piñeiro-Juncal, Joanne Preston, Federico Rampazzo, Gloria Reithmaier, Thorsten B.H. Reusch, Sarah Reynolds, Aurora M. Ricart, Rui Santos, Carmen B. de los Santos, Isaac R. Santos, Eduard Serrano, Oscar Serrano, Caroline P. Slomp, Craig Smeaton, Montserrar Soler, Ana I. Sousa, Timo Spiegel, Angela Stevenson, Jonas Thormar, Hilde Cecilie Trannum, Niels A.G.M. van Helmond, Sarah Paradis, Salvatrice Vizzini, Emma A. Ward, Yvonne Y.Y. Yau, Rym Zakhama-Sraieb, Imen Zribi, Olga M. Zygadlowska , Dorte Krause Jensen, 22 May 2025, In: Data in Brief. 60, 1 p., 111595.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedMixed provenance of organic carbon in Northeast Atlantic temperate intertidal seagrass sediments
  Ward, E. A., Reynolds, S. E., Leng, M. J., Lacey, J. H., Cerasuolo, M., Paxton, B., Ragazzola, F. & Preston, J., 31 Jul 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 27892 .
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• PublishedGlobal patterns in seagrass leaf and sediment carbon isotope fractionation have implications for carbon provenance calculations in blue carbon accreditation
  Ward, E. A., Cerasuolo, M., Ragazzola, F., Reynolds, S. E. & Preston, J., 27 Sept 2024, In: Ecological Indicators. 167, 1 p., 112546.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• PublishedIs All Seagrass Habitat Equal? Seasonal, Spatial, and Interspecific Variation in Productivity Dynamics Within Mediterranean Seagrass Habitat
  Ward, E. A., Aldis, C., Wade, T., Miliou, A., Tsimpidis, T. & Cameron, T. C., 25 Jul 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 891467.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedRange expansion of Marinomyxa marina, a phytomyxid parasite of the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea, to the Caribbean
  Kolátková, V., Smulders, F. O. H., Ward, E. A. & Vohník, M., 19 Jul 2022, In: Aquatic Botany. 182, 103554.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2020

• PublishedThe use of storm fragments and biodegradable replanting methods allows for a low-impact habitat restoration method of seagrass meadows, in the eastern Aegean Sea
  Ward, E., Meek, S. K., Gordon, D. M., Cameron, T. C., Steer, M. D., Smith, D. J., Miliou, A. & Tsimpidis, T., 2020, In: Conservation Evidence. 17, 1 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review