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Michel J. Kaiser Chief Scientist & Professor of Fisheries Conservation The Lyell Centre Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK m.kaiser@hw.ac.uk Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wUTi2m0AAAAJ&hl=en Twitter: @micheljkaiser	Michel’s research interests focus on techniques to achieve sustainable use of marine resources while seeking to minimize impacts on the marine environment. He is best-known for his expertise on the ecosystem of fishing on the seabed, data poor fisheries and the use of spatial management measures to achieve conservation and fisheries objectives. Throughout his career he has worked at the scientific interface between fisheries and conservation and sits on national and international advisory committees.
Martin J. Attrill Professor of Marine Ecology School of Biological and Marine Sciences University of Plymouth UK M.Attrill@plymouth.ac.uk Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gLhvlvIAAAAJ&hl=en Twitter: @mjattrill	Martin is a marine ecologist whose interests are in biodiversity patterns in time and space and how human activities influence those patterns, including climate change. Whilst he has worked on many marine systems, a large focus has been on estuaries, seagrass beds and subtidal seabed systems. In particular, he is interested in how we can protect the oceans, e.g. Marine Protected Areas, yet still enable a sustainable livelihood for the people dependent on our seas.
Simon Jennings International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Copenhagen Denmark Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Jennings	Simon’s research interests span population, community and ecosystem ecology; biodiversity; macroecology; food webs; life histories; stable isotopes; fisheries ecology and management; food security; environmental management systems and policy- with outputs applied in monitoring, assessment and management. Simon has also worked extensively as a science advisor. Today his work is largely focused on the facilitation and co-ordination of marine science.
David N. Thomas Professor of Arctic Ecosystem Research, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland david.thomas@helsinki.fi Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QWyeUEcAAAAJ&hl=en Twitter: @DNThomas01	David’s research spans a wide range of subject matter around the ecology and physiology of marine seaweeds and phytoplankton. His work is very much at the interface of biology and chemistry in marine, estuarine and river systems. He has extensive experience of studying the biology that lives within, on and below frozen pack ice in the Arctic and Southern Oceans and Baltic Sea. He sits on national and international advisory boards.
David K.A. Barnes Data Interpretation Ecologist British Antarctic Survey Madingley Road Cambridge Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ArSg_w0AAAAJ	David’s research focuses on evolution and climate adaptation of marine species with a particular focus on polar systems.
Andrew S. Brierley Professor of Marine Biology University of St Andrews Scotland, UK asb4@st-andrews.ac.uk Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NSpSRNwAAAAJ&hl=en	Andrew’s research focuses on questions to do with temporal and spatial variability in the distribution and abundance of pelagic organisms, impacts of environmental variability on these, and consequences for natural predators and fishers. He has projects in tropical and polar seas, and is working increasingly in African lakes on research towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Nicholas A. J. Graham Royal Society Research Fellow & Professor of Marine Ecology Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster UK nick.graham@lancaster.ac.uk Web: www.lec-reefs.org Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=nTILkOoAAAAJ&hl=en Twitter: @naj_graham	Nick’s research tackles large-scale ecological and social-ecological coral reef issues under the overarching themes of climate change, human use and resilience. He is best known for 1) his long-term studies of the impacts of climate disturbance on coral reef fish assemblages, fisheries and ecosystem stability; and 2) his work showing how seabird colonies provide huge nutrient subsidies to coral reefs, enhancing growth, biomass, and ecosystem functioning in reef fish assemblages.
Jan G. Hiddink Professor of Marine Biology at Bangor University, UK j.hiddink@bangor.ac.uk Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=XmYbaRYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Twitter: @MacomaBalthica	Jan’s research focuses on the quantification of human impacts on seabed ecosystems, examining the effect of fishing and climate change on fish and benthic invertebrates. He has a broad interest in other applied ecological science, ranging from grazing management for breeding birds on salt marshes to cetacean distribution mapping.
Kerry L. Howell Professor of Marine Biology Davy Building Drake Circus University of Plymouth Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-To0XesAAAAJ	Kerry’s research is focused on understanding biodiversity patterns in the deep sea. She is interested in faunal zonation and species turnover with depth, as well as speciation along the depth gradient. More recently she has been investigating patchiness and faunal changes along isobaths, and trying to understand environmental drivers of deep-sea diversity and species distributions.
Hermanni Kaartokallio Senior Research Scientist Finnish Environment Institute Marine Research Centre, Helsinki Finland hermanni.kaartokallio@ymparisto.fi Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-dq-zZ8AAAAJ&hl=en Twitter: @HKaartokallio	Hermanni’s research centres on marine bacteria, especially in cold environments and sea ice in the Baltic Sea and Arctic, including bacterial activity, processes, communities and interactions with substrate. Also, he has studied bacteria-DOM interactions on land-sea continuums and microbial processing of biodegradable polymer materials in the marine environments.