Dr Paul Somerfield

Merit Scientist

Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

As a principal investigator at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory Paul’s primary objectives are to undertake scientific research and to disseminate information through peer reviewed papers, reports, training, student supervision and other means. He has authored and co-authored > 120 peer-reviewed papers and contributed to >15 books.  His primary research interests are the distribution and functioning of biodiversity, and integration across disciplines.  His work integrates research across levels of biological organization from viruses to chordates to elucidate scales, causes and consequences of variability in space and time.  He is recognised as an international expert on the application of nonparametric multivariate analysis, and travels widely to provide training courses.  He is currently the lead PI and Coordinator for the NERC/Defra Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (www.marine-ecosystems-org.uk).