Email: s.pilly@bangor.ac.uk/jyodee0@gmail.com

Phone: +44 7425 186263

• MSc: Marine Protected Areas and coral reef resilience in the Cayman Islands
  2015–2017
• BSc: Effects of temperature on isolated Symbiodinium spp. previously exposed to heavy metals
  University of Mauritius, 2009–2013

My research is on the growth, cover and populations of benthic communities of remote reefs in the Central Indian Ocean. These reefs have been monitored since 1978 and assessing the changes in coral reef benthic communities have proved to be a key componenent in understanding the future condition and trajectory of the marine environment in the present warming world. A video archive of coral reef benthic community structure has been developed across depths at permanent monitoring sites throughout the atolls and allows for detailed analysis of the changes in communities. Isolated reefs fits the ocean observatory model in the sense that its remoteness from direct human impacts provides a bench mark against which the performance of other reefs can be assessed.  This insight into how undisturbed reefs function can improve reef management of degraded reefs in many other areas in the Indian Ocean and beyond. This PhD is also part of of a collaborative wider programme, the Bertarelli Foundation Marine Science & Protection Programme.

2025

• PublishedQuantifying coral reef carbonate budgets: a comparison between ReefBudget and CoralNet
  Sannassy Pilly, J., Townsend, J. E., Alisa, C. A. G., Razak, T. B., Turner, J., Roche, R., Chan, S., Kriegman, D. J., Andersson, A. J., Perry, C. T., Lange, I. D. & Courtney, T. A., Apr 2025, In: Coral Reefs.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• PublishedCoral carbonate production across depth: homogenisation after bleaching?
  Sannassy Pilly, J., Lange, I., Roche, R., Perry, C., Mogg, A., Dawson, K. & Turner, J., 11 Oct 2024, In: Coral Reefs. 43, 6, p. 1803-1818 16 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedDepth variation in benthic community response to repeated marine heatwaves on remote Central Indian Ocean reefs
  Sannassy Pilly, J., Roche, R., Richardson, L. & Turner, J., 27 Mar 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 3, p. 231246
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• PublishedAtoll-dependent variation in depth zonation of benthic communities on remote reefs
  Sannassy Pilly, J., Richardson, L., Turner, J. & Roche, R., 1 Jan 2022, In: Marine Environmental Research. 173, 105520.
  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

• PublishedA review of a decade of lessons from one of the world’s largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges
  Hays, G. C., Koldewey, H., Meeuwig, J. J., Attrill, M. J., Barley, S., Bayley, D., . Benkwitt, C. E., Block, B., Schallert, R. J., Carlisle, A. B., Carr, P., Chapple, T. K., Collins, C., Diaz, C., Dunn, N., Dunbar, R. B., Eager, D. S., Engel, J., Embling, C. B. & Esteban, N. & 52 others, Ferretti, F., Foster, N. L., Freeman, R., Gollock, M., Graham, N. A. J., Harris, J. L., Head, C. E. I., Hosegood, P., Howell, K. L., Hussey, N. E., Jacoby, D. M. P., Jones, R., Lange, I. D., Letessier, T. B., Levey, E., Lindhart, M., McDevitt-Irwin, J. M., Meekan, M. G., Micheli, F., Mogg, A., Mortimer, J. A., Mucciarone, D., Nicoll, M. A., Nuno, A., Perry, C. T., Sannassy Pilly, J., Preston, S. G., Rattray, A. J., Robinson, E., Roche, R., Schiele, M., Sheehan, E. V., Sheppard, A., Sheppard, C., Smith, A. L., Soule, B., Spalding, M., Stevens, G. M. W., Steyaert, M., Stiffel, S., Taylor, B., Tickler, D. M., Trevail, A. M., Trueba, P., Turner, J., Votier, S., Wilson, B., Williams, G., Williamson, B. J., Williamson, M. J., Wood, H. & Curnick, D. J., 14 Oct 2020, In: Marine Biology. 167, 11, 159.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedSpatio temporal variation in benthic communities in remote reefs
  Sannassy Pilly, J., Roche, R. & Turner, J., Jan 2020.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

2018

• PublishedShort-term effects of heavy metal and temperature stresses on the photophysiology of Symbiodinium isolated from the coral Fungia repanda
  Sannassy Pilly, J., Jun 2018.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

Chevening Scholarship Award in 2015-2016, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK

GHOORA, M.D., PILLY, S.S., CHUMUN, P.K., JAWAHEER, S. and BHAGOOLI, R., 2018. Short-term effects of heavy metal and temperature stresses on the photophysiology of Symbiodinium isolated from the coral Fungia repanda. Ocean Life, 2(1), pp.11-20.