Paul Hart - Curriculum Vitae#
Qualifications: BSc (Zoology) University of Liverpool, BA (Maths & Philosophy) Open University, PhD University of Liverpool
Recent research grants (£1000 and over):
- 2011-2015 €245,000 GAP2 Bridging the gap between science and stakeholders:
Phase 2 - Integration of evidence-based knowledge and its application to science and management of fisheries and the marine environment (Total grant - €5,913,755).
- 2012 £5038 Using tooth wear to determine the trophic status of past and present cod populations. FSBI Wynne Wheeler Grant.
- 2008-2009 €648,000. Bridging the gap between science and stakeholders:
Phase 1 – Common Ground. PJBH one partner in EU consortium.
- 2004-2007 £219,602 NERC Bridging the gap between ecological and evolutionary timescales: tooth wear, niche differentiation and speciation in living and fossil fishes ( with Dr M Purnell, Dept of Geology, Leicester)
- 2002-2005 £203,000 NERC The role of familiarity and genetic relatedness in mediating competition between group living fish.
PhD students supervised: 19
Editorships of journals:
- 2004 – Editor of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles Newsletter.
- 1999 – Founding co-editor with Prof T J Pitcher of the journal Fish and Fisheries published by Wiley-Blackwell (Impact factor 8.755).
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-2979
)
- 1997 - 1999 Co-editor Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries published by Kluwer Academic
Chairing sessions, invited plenary or spoken papers at conferences (from 2000):
- November 2014. Invited paper given by the Bergen Hub of the Academy of Europe on ‘The Nordic Seas – gold mines for the future?’. Title The scientific value of plankton records from ship traffic.
- October 2014, Copenhagen. Member of a workshop discussing Insights from Behavioural Economics to improve Fisheries Management.
- October 2014. Spoken paper at Johan Hjort Centenary Conference, Bergen Norway.
Title: Exploring decision rules of a migrating exploited population of edible crab using an individual based model.
- October 2005. Invited speaker at closing conference of Norwegian Research Council MARE research programme, Oslo, Norway.
- May 2005. Moderator for discussions and giving a paper at workshop on seamount fisheries and conservation, Horta, Azores, Portugal.
- September 2004. Co-convened a theme session on the role of marine protected areas in fisheries management at the ICES Annual Science Conference, Vigo, Spain
- September 2004. Chaired a session of a discussion meeting on Science for sustainable marine bioresources, organized by the NERC and held in Edinburgh
- May 2004. Endnote summarizing the 4th World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, Canada. Chaired one plenary session
- December 2003. Keynote speaker at annual meeting of Institute of Marine Research, Azores, Portugal
- October 2003. Keynote speaker at 2nd Symposium on Island Ecosystems, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
- January 2003. Invited speaker at workshop on Who owns the sea? Tjärnö, Sweden. Chaired final discussion session
- October/November 2000. Invited plenary speaker at the 3rd World Fisheries Congress, Beijing, China
Conferences organized:
- May 2009 – May 2012. Member of the Local Organizing Committee and the International Programme Committee for the 6th World Fisheries Congress, Edinburgh, May 2012.
- July 2009, Chair of organizing committee of 6th International Conference on stickleback behaviour and evolution, University of Leicester.
- May 2005. Co-organizer of workshop on seamount ecology and fisheries, Horta, Faial, Portugal.
- 2001-2004. Co Chair of the Programme Committee for the 4th World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, BC Canada, May 2004.
- July 2001. Organized the Fisheries Society of the British Isles summer symposium on Fish biodiversity and conservation University of Leicester.
- 1998-2000. Member of the International Steering Committee of the 3rd World Fisheries Congress, Beijing, China.
Other distinctions:
- 2010- Member Science Advisory Board, Marine Scotland.
- 2005 – Trustee of the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science and chair of Finance & Resources Sub-committee.
- 2006-2009. Member UK Natural Environment Research Council’s peer review college.
- 2007, 2008. Member of Norwegian Research Council grant assessment panel evaluating applications for research into fisheries.
- July 2001 and July 2002. Assessor for the NSERC Canada Herzberg Gold Medal.
- 1999-2001. Member of a panel reviewing the Norwegian Research Council’s past and present research programmes in aquaculture.
- 1996-2004 Member of Regional Fisheries Ecology and Recreational Advisory Committee of the Midlands region of the English and Welsh Environment Agency.
- 1988-1997. Treasurer - Fisheries Society of the British Isles.
