This website was assembled while I was working at Edinburgh Napier University as Senior Technician for the
Aquatic Ecosystem Management, Ecotourism, and Wildlife Biology and Conservation postgraduate courses at Edinburgh Napier University.

Subsequent to that I worked as a technician at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, assisting with research in the Nano Safety Group and supporting practical classes. I have now retired and algal identification is a hobby.

• 1969 BSc Honours in Biology (Genetics) grade 2II, University of Edinburgh.
  
• 1970 Diploma in Education, Moray House College / University of Edinburgh.
  
• 1985 MSc Biology of Water Management (Distinction), Napier College of Technology.
  
• 1991 PhD Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh

Research Interests:

• The use of organisms, especially freshwater algae, as biological indicators of environmental condition
• The biodiversity of freshwater algae click here to see some more
• The use of algal biomass for wastewater treatment
  
• Algal ecotoxicology (currently the ecotoxicology of nanomaterials)

'What's in my pond?'

VISIT THE ALGAL WEB!

Outside Interests:

• Gardening
• Beekeeping
• Walking
• Making and playing musical instruments (stringed thingies)
• Doing messy biological things in ponds and streams
• Looking at algae

Memberships, etc.

• The British Phycological Society
• The Freshwater Biological Association
• Garden Organic (formerly Henry Doubleday Research Association)
• The Islay Natural History Trust

Publications: