Dr Adel Heenan

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

a.heenan@bangor.ac.uk

Dr Adel Heenan

Room: 325 Westbury Mount听 听 Phone: 01248 382898

E-mail: a.heenan@bangor.ac.uk

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In 2003, I obtained a B.Sc. in Zoology at the University of Edinburgh and an M.Sc. in Tropical Coastal Management at Newcastle University upon Tyne in 2004.听 After my MSc I worked for the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Shark Specialist Group, contributing to Red Listing and CITES processes for species of Sharks, Skates and Rays. From 2006-2010 I did a PhD on the settlement behavior of larval coral reef fish, working at the Lizard Island research station on an Australian Museum Doctoral Fellowship, as well as in Indonesia and the Philippines. After my PhD, I worked as a marine ecologist, communicating scientific information to the Irish Sea Conservation Zone (ISCZ) stakeholder group, one of the regional projects in the UK national ecological network of marine conservation areas. From 2011-2017 I was based at the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Honolulu, Hawaii where I worked as an applied scientist for a long-term monitoring program. In that role, my time was split between collecting and analyzing a large-scale coral reef ecosystem monitoring dataset and capacity building for the implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM). In 2017 I took a Ser Cymru fellowship at the School of Ocean Sciences. This is funded by the European Union鈥檚 Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie grant agreement No 663830.

I am now a full time lecturer at the School of Ocean Sciences, where my research focuses on modelling coral reef fishes to try and understand how coral reef ecosystems function and how humans interact with them. In my previous role at NOAA I had the extraordinary opportunity to dive on some of the most remote and pristine coral reefs on the planet. Doing so gave me an appreciation for the need to understand natural variation in ecosystem state due to the physical environment, in order to better understand and manage human activities. I have a strong interest in the information and data needs that can enable sustainable fisheries, and how we can put an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management into practice. This includes implementing collaborative and integrated monitoring, with reproducible and standardized methods and data management protocols, as well as validating novel indicators for a whole system perspective.

Research Areas

  • MSc
    Newcastle University,
  • BSc
    University of Edinburgh,
  • PhD
    University of Edinburgh,
I'd be happy to hear from those interested in applying for a fellowships or studentships, so do get in touch if you are. If you're looking for a PhD, then send an email with your CV and an outline of the sort of project you might be interested in doing.

2024

  • Published
    Link, J., Pranovi, F., Kindinger, T., Heenan, A. & Tanaka, K., 4 Jan 2024, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 10
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2023

  • Published
    Pytka, J., Moore, A. & Heenan, A., Mar 2023, In: Conservation Science and Practice. 5, 3, e12896.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2022

  • Published
    Roche, R., Heenan, A., Taylor, B. M., Schwarz, J. N., Fox, M. D., Southworth, L., Williams, G. & Turner, J., 31 Aug 2022, In: Royal Society Open Science. 9, 8, p. 201012 201012.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2021

  • Published
    Lawrence, A., Heenan, A., Levine, A., Haddaway, N., Powell, F., Wedding, L., Roche, R., Lawrence, P., Szostek, C., Ford, H., Southworth, L., Sannassy Pilly, J., Richardson, L. & Williams, G. J., 25 Jan 2021, In: Environmental Evidence. 10, 3.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2020

  • Published
    Heenan, A., Williams, G. & Williams, I., Mar 2020, In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 18, 2, p. 69-75
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2019

  • Published
    Wongbusarakum, S., Brown, V., Loerzel, A., Gorstein, M., Kleiber, D., Quinata, M., Iwane, M. & Heenan, A., Nov 2019, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 56, 11, p. 2400-2409 10 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Williams, G. J., Graham, N. A. J., Jouffray, J.-B., Norstrom, A. V., Nystrom, M., Gove, J. M., Heenan, A. & Wedding, L. M., Jun 2019, In: Functional Ecology. 33, 6, p. 1014-1022
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2018

  • Published
    Brainard, R. E., Oliver, T., McPhaden, M. J., Cohen, A., Venegas, R., Heenan, A., Vargas-脕ngel, B., Rotjan, R., Mangubhai, S., Flint, E. & Hunter, S. A., Jan 2018, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99, 1, p. S21-S26
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Heenan, A. & Wongbusarakum, S., 2018
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  • Published
    Gorospe, K., Donahue, M., Heenan, A., Gove, J., Williams, I. & Brainard, R., 9 May 2018, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 5, 162.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Ngao Wanyongi, I., Macharia, D., Heenan, A. & Mangi, S., 2018, In: Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 23, 6, p. 569-586
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2017

  • Published
    Heenan, A., Williams, I. D., Acoba, T., DesRochers, A., Kosaki, R. K., Kanemura, T., Nadon, M. O. & Brainard, R. E., Dec 2017, In: Scientific data. 4, 170176.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2016

  • Published
    Heenan, A., Gorospe, K., Williams, I., Levine, A., Maurin, P., Nadon, M., Oliver, T., Rooney, J., Timmers, M., Wongbusarakum, S. & Brainard, R., 13 May 2016, In: Journal of Applied Ecology. 53, 3, p. 699-704
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Heenan, A., Hoey, A. S., Williams, G. & Williams, I. D., 23 Nov 2016, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B.. 283, 1843
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2015

  • Published
    Heenan, A., Pomeroy, R., Bell, J., Munday, P. L., Cheung, W., Logan, C., Brainard, R., Amri, A. Y., Alino, P., Armada, N., David, L., Rivera-Guieb, R., Green, S., Jompa, J., Leonardo, T., Mamauag, S., Parker, B., Shackeroff, J. & Yasin, Z., Jul 2015, In: Marine Policy. 57, p. 182-192
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
  • Published
    Williams, I. D., Baum, J. K., Heenan, A., Hanson, K. M., Nadon, M. O. & Brainard, R. E., 1 Apr 2015, In: PLoS ONE. 10, 4, e0120516.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2013

  • Published
    Heenan, A. & Williams, I. D., 6 Nov 2013, In: PLoS ONE. 8, 11, e79604.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2009

  • Published
    Heenan, A., Meekan, M. G., Healy, S. D., Simpson, S. & Braithwaite, V. A., Nov 2009, In: Journal of Fish Biology. 75, 7, p. 1857-67 11 p.
    Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review

2017

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2016

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2015

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