Plankton Ecologist
Environmental Science
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
United Kingdom
Dr Angus Atkinson is a marine ecologist with over 25 years of research experience and over 100 publications. He currently leads the plankton ecology group at PML and co-leads the NERC-funded Western Channel Observatory, where is responsible for the delivery of plankton data from this valuable 25-year time series. Before 2012 Dr Atkinson worked at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge where he studied the distribution, feeding and energy budgets of zooplankton, particularly copepods and Antarctic krill.
Bentho-pelagic coupling, involving zooplankton vertical migration and gravitational fluxes, phenology shifts and seasonal succession in plankton communities, zooplankton feeding and pelagic food webs.