Bryony A. Caswell

Bryony Caswell is an inter-disciplinary marine scientist who lectures geology and marine biology at the University of Hull, UK. Her research considers the response of marine communities to environmental change in the deep past and the present, including changes in the ecological functioning provided by marine benthos. This has included work on the community and ecosystem effects of a number of extreme climate warming events, hundreds of millions of years ago, and the impacts we are causing today through pollution. She recently co-authored a textbook on marine pollution for Oxford University Press. Her postgraduate students are working on a range of research projects that consider these impacts on past and present ecosystems and how they function so that we might better understand future marine ecosystem dynamics. Additionally, she chairs the ICES Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries, and through this work seeks to unravel how history has shaped present human practices and relationships with the sea.