Stephen John Hawkins

Research interests:

• Rocky shore community ecology.
• Behavioural ecology of intertidal grazers.
• Taxonomy and phylogeography of North East Atlantic and Mediterranean patellids, cirripedes, trochids.
• Restoration of degraded coastal ecosystems, recovery of polluted shores and estuaries.
• Shellfisheries, impacts of scallop dredging on benthos.
• Long term change in relation to climate using rocky-shore indicators.
• Co-ordination of MBA time series on plankton and fish.
• Ecology and design of sea defences.