These data and tissue archives facilitate a broad range of collaborative and interdisciplinary research investigating natural or anthropogenic factors that can drive mortality, such as effects of fisheries interactions and impacts of chemical or acoustic pollution.

The CSIP maintains a 25+ year UK-stranded cetacean database (including causes of death) alongside a national marine mammal, shark and turtle tissue archives. Other significant grants held at IoZ include the UK Government-funded investigation into the impact of the UK phocine distemper epizootic on UK seal populations in 2002 and an EU-funded Marie Curie post-doctoral Fellowship “CETACEAN STRESSORS” with Dr Sinead Murphy (2012). This funding has enabled me to publish >130 peer-reviewed scientific publications and co-author a similar number of CSIP-related Government Reports. Rob Deaville (IoZ) is the CSIP Project Manager. To date I have obtained over £7.5 million of research funding in total from a range of sources (Defra EU UNEP ASCOBANS UK Ministry of Defence). Since 2000 I have been the principal grant holder for the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) – funded by UK Govt. This can involve rapidly responding to live stranding or mass stranding events as they happen. Necropsies are conducted at ZSL or in the field and are primarily undertaken to determine the causes of disease and mortality of stranded animals. My long-term research interests as a European Veterinary Specialist in Wildlife Population Health include the systematic pathological investigations (necropsies) of stranded marine mammals, marine turtles and basking sharks.

BVMS PhD DipECZM (Wildlife Population Health) MRCVSĢ012: Member, IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group.Ģ012: Member, IUCN Wildlife Health Specialist Group.Ģ010: European Veterinary Specialist in Wildlife Population Health.Ģ007: Institute of Zoology PhD student Graduate Tutor (until 2012).Ģ007: Appointed to Senior Research Fellow.Ģ006: Awarded 5 year RCUK post-doctoral Fellowship in Marine Mammal Epidemiology.Ģ003: PhD, Royal Veterinary College (University of London).ġ991: BVMS, University of Glasgow Veterinary School.

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