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The sediment carbon stocks of intertidal seagrass meadows in Scotland

Journal Article
Potouroglou, M., Whitlock, D., Milatovic, L., MacKinnon, G., Kennedy, H., Diele, K., & Huxham, M. (2021)
The sediment carbon stocks of intertidal seagrass meadows in Scotland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 258, Article 107442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107442
Seagrasses are highly productive ecosystems and hotspots for biodiversity, providing a plethora of benefits to the environment and to people. Their value in sequestering and s...

A question of standards: adapting carbon and other PES markets to work for community seagrass conservation

Journal Article
Shilland, R., Grimsditch, G., Ahmed, M., Bandeira, S., Kennedy, H., Potouroglou, M., & Huxham, M. (2021)
A question of standards: adapting carbon and other PES markets to work for community seagrass conservation  . Marine Policy, 129, Article 104574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104574
Seagrass meadows deliver multiple ecosystem services that are of particular importance to resource-poor coastal communities, yet they are rapidly declining globally. The Payme...

Communities of practice or communicative rationality? A study of autonomous peer assisted learning

Journal Article
Jayathilake, C., & Huxham, M. (2022)
Communities of practice or communicative rationality? A study of autonomous peer assisted learning. Active learning in higher education, 23(3), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787421998123
Defined as ‘networks of learning relationships among students and significant others’, peer assisted learning takes a bewildering array of forms in higher education. A useful ...

Climate and intertidal zonation drive variability in the carbon stocks of Sri Lankan mangrove forests

Journal Article
Cooray, P. L. I. G. M., Kodikara, K. A. S., Kumara, M. P., Jayasinghe, U. I., Madarasinghe, S. K., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., …Jayatissa, L. P. (2021)
Climate and intertidal zonation drive variability in the carbon stocks of Sri Lankan mangrove forests. Geoderma, 389, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.114929
Sri Lanka is at the forefront of global mangrove conservation. It is the first country to officially protect all its remaining mangrove forests and has embarked on an ambitiou...

Public perceptions of mangrove forests matter for their conservation

Journal Article
Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Ajonina, G. N., Aldrie Amir, A., Andradi-Brown, D. A., Aziz, I., Balke, T., …Friess, D. A. (2020)
Public perceptions of mangrove forests matter for their conservation. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.603651
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Opportunities and Challenges for Community-Based Seagrass Conservation

Report
Shilland, R., Wanjiru, A., Ahmed, M., Grimsditch, G., & Huxham, M. (2020)
Opportunities and Challenges for Community-Based Seagrass Conservation. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Program
Seagrass meadows are important marine ecosystems, providing a range of services including carbon sequestration, nursery habitats for fish and coastal protection. They are suff...

Protecting Seagrass Through Payments for Ecosystem Services: A Community Guide

Report
Shilland, R., Wanjiru, A., Mohamed, A., Grimsditch, G., & Huxham, M. (2020)
Protecting Seagrass Through Payments for Ecosystem Services: A Community Guide. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Program
Shilland, R., Wanjiru, A., Mohamed, A., Grimsditch, G., & Huxham, M. (2020). Protecting Seagrass Through Payments for Ecosystem Services: A Community Guide. Nairobi, Kenya: Un...

Multiple Impact Pathways Of The 2015-2016 El Niño In Coastal Kenya

Journal Article
Fortnam, M., Atkins, M., Brown, K., Chaigneau, T., Frouws, A., Gwaro, K., …Sheen, K. (2020)
Multiple Impact Pathways Of The 2015-2016 El Niño In Coastal Kenya. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 50, 174-189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01321-z
The 2015-2016 El Niño had large impacts globally. The effects were not as great as anticipated in Kenya, however, leading some commentators to call it a 'non-event'. Our study...

SDG 14: Life Below Water - Impacts On Mangroves

Book Chapter
Friess, D. A., Aung, T. T., Huxham, M., Lovelock, C., Mukherjee, N., & Sasmito, S. (2019)
SDG 14: Life Below Water - Impacts On Mangroves. In G. Winkel, P. Pacheco, G. Galloway, C. J. Pierce Colfer, W. de Jong, & P. Katila (Eds.), Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People, (445-481). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108765015.016
The SDG14 targets cover more than 70 per cent of the planet, including the coastal zone, where a range of forest resources are located. In this chapter we investigate the pote...

The other side of a magic mirror: Exploring collegiality in student and staff partnership work

Journal Article
Scoles, J., Huxham, M., Sinclair, K., Lewis, C., Jung, J., & Dougall, E. (2021)
The other side of a magic mirror: Exploring collegiality in student and staff partnership work. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(5), 712-727. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1677588
This article adds to the corpus of writing that examines collegiality's idealistic yet elusive nature in Higher Education by focusing specifically on how collegiality can be e...
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Restoring Gambian riverine mangrove wetlands

2023 - 2024
community based mangrove restoration in the Gambia, using new techniques to restore salinised flats and working towards carbon accreditation for long term income
Funder: Ledunfly Philanthropy | Value: £95,609

Blue Carbon and Green Seagrass in Kenya

2023 - 2026
developing biodiversity credits to support seagrass conservation in Kenya
Funder: Ledunfly Philanthropy | Value: £307,361

Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves

2023 - 2023
The high costs of measuring carbon stocks and increments in subtidal seagrass beds mean that fully accredited seagrass carbon projects, using current standards and protocols, are not usually financial...
Value: £10,325

Holdfast: communities and blue carbon

2022 - 2023
Achieving the potential of Blue Carbon (BC) requires excellent communication with diverse audiences, in particular: 1) communities who live adjacent to, and often depend upon, BC ecosystems. 2) Invest...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £8,702

Empowering Malaysias future leaders in Coastal Ocean Actionable and Sustainable Teaching And Research (COASTAR)

2022 - 2022
Specific activities and impacts will be: 1) An expert seminar series will promote knowledge sharing of best practices on research and communication skills with a focus on coastal sustainability. 2) Wo...
Funder: British Council | Value: £49,987

Local Roots and Global Branches: protecting blue carbon ecosystems under community-based management

2021 - 2022
Project Objectives: 1. Strengthen international collaboration in a post-Brexit world to address ongoing climate change impacts. 2. Contribute international learning in Scotland ahead of ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £9,770

Incorporating seagrass conservation and restoration into community based PES project (Phase 2)

2020 - 2022
This project will implement the ‘Protecting seagrass through Payments for Ecosystem Services: A Community Guide’ document to facilitate the designation and initial monitoring programme of an Locally M...
Funder: United Nations Environment Programme | Value: £47,277

SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees

2020 - 2024
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinar...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £314,324

words A thousand flowers will bloom: ensuring local initiatives inform national and international climate commitments

2020 - 2022
Mangroves, seagrass meadows and salt marshes are referred to as Blue Carbon habitats. They are championed within climate change policy and international initiatives because of their exceptional power ...
Funder: International Development Research Centre | Value: £126,692

From local roots to global branches: making NDCs work at three different levels

2019 - 2021
Blue Carbon habitats - mangroves, seagrass meadows and salt marshes - are unusually important and beautiful ecosystems. Stopping and reversing their loss commands the enthusiastic support of economist...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £124,255
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Dissolved oxygen and pH variability within seagrass meadows: mitigators of ocean acidification and potential refugia for CaCO3 dependent organisms?

2021 - date
Ahmed Mohamed | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham | Second Supervisor: Prof Karen Diele

Trust, Time, and Bias: What is the effect upon correcting false memories with a fact check?

2021 - date
Ted Carlson Webster | Director of Studies: Dr Marina Wimmer | Second Supervisor: Dr Faye Skelton

Investigating drivers of seagrass loss in Kenya and testing local soluations to seagrass conservation

2020 - date
Edward Mwikamba | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham | Second Supervisor: Prof Robert Briers

The hidden links in trophic food webs: where do the parasites fit?

2019 - 2020
Matthew Dicker | Director of Studies: Dr Sonja Rueckert | Second Supervisor: Prof Mark Huxham

Understanding the stocks and productivity of live and dead wood in an exploited mangrove forest

2019 - date
Lilian Mugi | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham | Second Supervisor: Dr Gavin Ballantyne

Understanding the drivers of carbon sequestration in Scottish seagrass

2016 - 2022
Dani Whitlock | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham

Determinants of habitat use by fish and crustaceans in mangroves: using habitat characteristics to predict communities

2015 - 2020
Caroline Wanjiru | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham | Second Supervisor: Dr Sonja Rueckert

An investigation into programme level approaches to feedback: Influences on students' learning and feedback literacy

2015 - 2020
The purpose of the current research is to explore what a programme-focused approach ...
Kimberly Wilder | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham

Assessing the role of intertidal seagrasses as coastal carbon sinks in Scotland

2013 - 2017
Seagrasses form dense and extensive coastal meadows extending from intertidal areas down to 40 m depth worldwide except ...
Maria Potouroglou | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham | Second Supervisor: Prof Karen Diele

The role of seagrass meadows in Gazi Bay, Kenya as carbon sinks

2013 - 2017
Njoroge Githaiga | Director of Studies: Prof Mark Huxham | Second Supervisor: Dr Linda Gilpin

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