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Bryan Swig is currently finishing his PhD dissertation
at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. Bryan uses managed realignment
sites on the Humber estuary, UK to study the response of estuarine habitats
to anthropogenic influences. The bulk of Bryan's dissertation research
focuses on looking at the recovery rates of heavily impacted sites, with an
aim to work out the timing of the events leading to system functioning
equivalent to that of a non-impacted site, the number of fish such a site
can carry and how this number equates to the number a non-impacted sites can
carry. Bryan will determine if the impacted land can function like for like
with non-impacted land.
Bryan studied at the California State University
Northridge where he completed his Masters work on the effects of the
pollution produced by the city of Los Angeles on macroparasite communities
in the Santa Monica Bay. He studied the pollution/ human impacts on near
shore marine environments and how such impacts can affect individuals,
populations and communities. While investigating new and novel indicators of
pollution/ human impacts, he will determine ways of limiting potential
impacts.
Bryan's research focus on human impacts/ pollution on
the nearshore marine environment come from a lifelong pursuit of time in the
water; Bryan was into competitive surfing and he was a surf instructor and
lifeguard.
Email:
b.swig@conservationinstitute.org
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