Tom Grove – SAGES

Institution: University of Edinburgh

Theme: Atmosphere, Oceans & Climate: the fluid Earth

Department / group: School of Geosciences

Email: tom.grove@ed.ac.uk

Institution URL: https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences

Personal URL: http://whalewise.org/

Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=ZLdyD-YAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Research interests:

Marine ecology
Marine mammal behaviour

Career history:

– 2013-16: BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge.

– 2016: Research Assistant, The Nature Conservancy / University of Cambridge. Focus: mangrove dependence of tropical fisheries.

– 2017: Research Assistant, University of Iceland. Focus: whale behaviour and photo-identification.

– 2019-present: Research Assistant, iAtlantic / University of Edinburgh. Focus: temporal trends in cetacean abundance and distribution.

Active research projects:

PhD thesis: Assessing the impact of whale watching encounters on blue and humpback whale populations in north Iceland

Recent publications:

[IN PRESS] zu Ermgassen, P.S., Grove, T. and Nagelkerken, I., 2019. Global affiliation of juvenile fishes and invertebrates with mangrove habitats. Bulletin of Marine Science.