Martin John Attrill is Professor of Marine Ecology
at the School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Faculty of Science and
Engineering, University of Plymouth. He earned, from the Marine Biology Department at the
University of Liverpool, a B.S. in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1988. In 2009–2018, he
served as the Director of the Marine Institute at the University of Plymouth,
and in 2018 he designed and set up the MSc in Marine Conservation. He has
published over 170 papers in the prime literature, primarily on fish and
benthic systems. In recent years, Professor Attrill led projects which were investigating the
roles of Marine Protected Areas and their interaction with fishing,
particularly the UK Defra designation in Lyme Bay, SW England. His primary
research interest is focused on the mechanisms behind long-term change and
large-scale spatial patterns in marine assemblages and populations, and human impact on these patterns. He has been
working with long-term data from marine fish and invertebrate populations
within a range of habitats such as the Thames Estuary, Brazilian coral reefs
and the open Atlantic Ocean, including investigating the role of climate
variation on fish, corals and plankton.
