Dr Andrew Gill
Lecturer in Aquatic Ecology
Location: Building 37, Cranfield campus
E: a.b.gill@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2711
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Andrew Gill is currently involved in:
- pioneering research into coastal environmental impacts of offshore renewable energy developments – particularly interactions with electromagnetic sensitive species
- continuing to develop research into the effects of resource variability on fish, particularly foraging behaviour
- researching the consequences of environmental warming for the reproductive behaviour of fish
- developing and applying in situ monitoring to determine the success of restoration ecology practice in rivers and lakes.
Clients
- Collaborative Offshore Wind Research into the Environment (COWRIE)
- Crown Estate
- NERC
- Royal Society
- British Ecological Society
- Fisheries Society of the British Isles
- Environment Agency
- Countryside Council for Wales
- British Waterways
- ADAS
- Directorate General VIII, European Union
- DoE
- Departments of Fisheries and Tourism, Belizean Government
- Philippine Reef and Rainforest Conservation Foundation
- Operation Wallacea
- Natural History Museum.
Background
Dr Andrew Gill started his career in 1989 as a NERC funded Research Assistant at Leicester University. Following his PhD, he worked for three years with a coral reef conservation organisation on field projects mapping reefs communities and providing scientific advice and support for the development of marine protected areas in Belize and the Philippines. On returning to the UK in 1996, Andrew took up a temporary lectureship in Fish and Fisheries Biology at Liverpool University and in 1999 set up a new postgraduate course in Restoration Ecology and was appointed Course Director. In late 2003, Andrew moved to Cranfield to take up his current position as Lecturer in applied aspects of aquatic ecology.
Andrew graduated in Zoology (Marine and Fisheries Biology) at Aberdeen University, Scotland and subsequently studied for his PhD in Fish Behavioural Ecology at Leicester University.
He is a member of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, a member of the Society for Ecological Restoration International, a member and Scientific Advisor to the Shark Trust, a member of British Ecological Society and a BES representative, a member of the Marine Biological Association UK and an MBA Visiting Fellow. He is currently the Marine and Aquatic Editor for the international journal Biological Conservation.
