Oliver Thomas Hogg
Biogeographer/PhD Student
I am interested in the use of multidisciplinary scientific approaches to: (i) Increase our understanding of biogeographical and ecological patterns in benthic biodiversity; and (ii) assess how this knowledge can be used to inform on marine conservation and management strategies. My research adopts a trans-disciplinary approach to marine habitat mapping. It integrates biological, geophysical, and ocean productivity data with regional oceanographic models and high-resolution seabed photography. This synthesis of multidisciplinary information enables large-scale biotopic characterisations to be made of marine benthic habitats. This allows us to study the respective influences of local-scale drivers verses large-scale abiotic gradients on biological communities, and model the distributions of potentially rare or endemic fauna and vulnerable marine ecosystems.
Hogg, O., Huevenne, V., Griffiths, H., Dorschel, B., & Linse, K. (2017). A Bathymetric Compilation of South Georgia, 1985-2015 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01037
SO-AntEco was a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) led expedition undertaken in conjunction with an international team of scientists from the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) AntEco research programme.
The UK government is committed to the long-term protection of over four million km2 of the world oceans which fall within the UK’s Overseas Territories. Prioritising which parts of the […]
Study reveals most biologically rich island in Southern Ocean The first comprehensive study of sea creatures around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia reveals a region that is richer in […]
