Position: PhD Researcher

Address: Environmental Research Institute,
Castle Street,Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD

Tel: +44 (0)1847 889587

Fax: +44 (0)1847 890014

E-mail: Diane.Ruchonnet@thurso.uhi.ac.uk

Joined ERI: October 2003

Background:

• PhD: “Chemical ecology of marine alga-bacterial interactions” (ongoing)
  UHI Millennium Institute

• MSc Biology. “Fatty acid composition of the Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) blubber”
  University of Geneva (Switzerland), in collaboration with the CNRS Oceanographic Observatory of Villefranche-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes, France)

• BSc (Hons) Biology (Microbiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology)
  University of Geneva (Switzerland)

Research Interests:

• Marine Chemical Ecology
  
• Microbiology
  
• Marine Biogeochemical Cycling of Elements, and how changes in food web structure affect this cycling

Publications:

Ruchonnet, D., Boutoute M., Guinet C., and Mayzaud, M. Fatty acid composition of Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) blubber with respect to body heterogeneity and trophic interaction. Marine Ecology Progress Series (in press).

Other Information:

• PADI Divemaster
  
• CEDIP/CMAS diver ****

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