PhD Candidate
Science Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP
Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
Kensington
London, UK
UNSW Practicum Student
UoN Visiting Researcher
Phone: +61 4589 35917
Email: c.page17@imperial.ac.uk
Twitter: @CharEvePage
PhD Project |
Seeking resistance in coral reef ecosystems: can water flow conditions explain variation in bleaching over multiple spatial scales? |
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If we are to ensure the persistence of species in an increasingly warm world, of particular importance is the identification of drivers that affect the ability of organisms to resist thermal stress. A number of environmental factors have been identified as affecting the biological responses of corals under broad-scale thermal anomalies. One such driver is water flow conditions over reef, which is able to modulate metabolic functioning at the cellular level and modify the thermal environment whole colonies and reefs are exposed too.
Using the Great Barrier Reef as a study system, Charlotte is broadly interested in understanding mechanisms that effect the maintenance of the coral-algal symbiosis in an increasingly warm ocean. Specifically Charlotte uses histological microscopy techniques, coupled with gene expression analysis to understand how environmental conditions such as water flow may convey resistance in the bleaching responses exhibited by scleractinian corals. After graduating with a MSci degree in Biological Sciences from University College London (UCL) in 2017, Charlotte started her PhD on the Science Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Program (SSCP DTP), at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, funded by the National European Research Council (NERC). Charlottes MSci research project was based at the Natural History Museum, where she developed her computational skills through statistically quantifying convergence in river dolphin skulls (see here for a blog post). Prior to this, Charlotte gained experience in coral ecology and biology, spending time abroad in Australia at the University of Queensland, and Florida as an intern at Mote Marine Laboratories where she conducted ocean acidification experiments. She also worked in London as a Marine Biologist for the National Marine Aquarium. |
Publications and awards |
Awards
Publications Page, C., Leggat, B., Heron, S., Choukrin, S., Lloyd, J., Ainsworth., T D. (2019). Seeking resistance in coral reef ecosystems: bio-physical factors underpinning variation in bleaching across multiple scales. BioEssays In review Page, C., & Cooper, N., (2017). Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ, 5, p.e4090 |
Qualifications |
Education
MSci Biological Science (Study Abroad) (First Class Honours), 2017, University College London (United Kingdom) and University of Queensland (Australia) Other PADI Divemaster. 2016. HLTAID001/002/003/007 First Aid, CPR and Advanced Resuscitation. 2019. |
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