Position: ERI Director

Address: Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College - UHI,
Castle Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD

Tel: +44 (0) 1847 889 581

Fax: +44 (0)1847 890 014

E-mail: Stuart.Gibb@thurso.uhi.ac.uk

Joined ERI: November 1999

Background:

• BSc (Hons, Class I) Physical Sciences, Robert Gordons Institute of Technology, Aberdeen, 1988
  
  
• PhD School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, 1994

Career Summary

• Fellow - Royal Society of Chemistry - 2007
  
  
• Chartered Scientist Status - 2004
  
  
• Director, Environmental Research Insitute, 2002-Present
  
  
• Research and Development Manager, Environmental Research Insitute, 1999-2002
  
  
• Senior Scientific Officer, Pigment Biogeochemistry, Plymouth Marine Laboratory 1999
  
  
• Higher Scientific Officer, Pigment Biogeochemistry, Plymouth Marine Laboratory 1995-1999
  
  
• Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia / Plymouth Marine Laboratory, 1994-1995
  
  
• Chartered Chemist Status - 1994
  
  
• Post Doctoral Research Associate, School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia / Plymouth Marine Laboratory, 1992-1995

Research Interests:

• Marine biogeochemistry including biogenic gases, air-sea exchange processes & atmospheric chemistry, phytoplankton dynamics and biogeochemistry
  
  
• Analytical chemistry & method development
  
  
• Climatic & environmental change
  
  
• Water analysis & water quality assessment
  
  
• Innovative utilisation of natural materials
  
  
• Impacts of Ozone Depletion and UV-B radiation

Selected Publications (from 1999)

• S. Lu, S.W. Gibb, E. Cochrane
  Effective removal of zinc ions from aqueous solutions using crab carapace biosorbent
  Journal of Hazardous Materials, in press
  doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2007.03.070, 2007
  
  
• Carolina Nebot, Stuart W. Gibb and Kenneth G. Boyd
  Quantification of human pharmaceuticals in water samples by high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
  Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 598, pp 87-94, 2007
  doi:10.1016/j.aca.2007.07.029
  
  
• Johnson, M.T., Sanders, R., Avgoustidi, V., Lucas, M.I., Brown, L., Hansell, D., Moore, C.M., Gibb, S.W., Liss, P.S. and Jickells, T.D.,
  Ammonium accumulation during a silicate limited diatom bloom indicates the potential for ammonia emission events,
  Marine Chemistry, 106 (1-2), pp 63-75, 2007
  doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2006.09.006
  
  
• McDougall KE, Gibb SW, Boyd KG, Brown BE
  ‘Chlorophyll-like’ compounds as novel biomarkers of stress in corals
  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 35, 137-144, 2006
  
  
• E. L. Cochrane, S. Lu, S. W. Gibb and I. Villaescusa
  A comparison of low-cost biosorbents and commercial sorbents for the removal of copper from aqueous media
  Journal of Hazardous Materials, 137 (1), 198-206, 2006
  doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2006.01.054
  

• S. Wajih A. Naqvi, , Hermann W. Bange, Stuart W. Gibb, Catherine Goyet, Angela D. Hatton and Robert C. Upstill-Goddard
  Biogeochemical ocean-atmosphere transfers in the Arabian Sea
  Progress In Oceanography Volume 65, Issues 2-4 , May-June 2005, Pages 116-144
  
  
• John Coll, Stuart W. Gibb, John Harrison
  Modelling future climates in the Scottish Highlands,
  In: Thompson D.B.A. editor Price M.F. editor Galbraith C.A. eds; Mountains of Northern Europe: conservation, management, people and nature, 2005, 396pp, TSO
  
  
• Stuart W. Gibb, Angela D. Hatton
  The occurrence and distribution of trimethylamine-N-oxide in Antarctic coastal waters.
  Marine Chemistry, 91 (2004) 65-75
  
  
• David K. Woolf, John Coll, Stuart Gibb, Peter Challenor,
  Sensitivity Of Ferry Services To The Western Isles Of Scotland To Changes In Wave Climate.
  Proceedings of the 23nd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engineering, Vancouver, June, 2004

• Rae, I.B., Gibb, S.W.
  Removal of metals from aqueous solutions using natural chitinous materials.
  Water Science & Technology Vol 47 No 10 pp 189–196, 2003
  
  
• Brown BE, Downs CA, Dunne RP, Gibb SW
  Preliminary evidence for tissue retraction as a factor in photoprotection of corals incapable of xanthophyll cycling.
  J. Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 277 (2): 129-144, 2002

• Brown BE, Downs CA, Dunne RP, Gibb SW
  Exploring the basis of thermotolerance in the reef coral Goniastrea aspera.
  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 242, 119-129, 2002

• Steinke, M., G. Malin, S.W. Gibb, and P.H. Burkill.
  Vertical and temporal variability of DMSP lyase activity in a coccolithophorid bloom in the northern North Sea.
  Deep-Sea Research II 49 (15): 3001-3016 2002

• S.W. Gibb, R.G. Barlow, D.G. Cummings, R.F.C. Mantoura and X. Irigoien
  Pigment pigment chemotaxonomy of the northeastern Atlantic.
  Deep-Sea Research II 48: (4-5) 795-823 2001
  
  
• Ian Joint et al., (27 authors inc. Stuart Gibb
  Pelagic Production at the Celtic Sea shelf break.
  Deep-Sea Research II 48 (14-15) 3049-3081 2001

• Gibb, S.W., R.G. Barlow, D.G. Cummings, N.W. Rees, C.C. Trees, P. Holligan, D. Suggett.
  Surface phytoplankton pigment distributions in the Atlantic Ocean: An assessment of basin scale variability between 50°N and 50°S.
  Progress in Oceanography, 45 (3-4), 339-368, 2000

• Anning T, MacIntyre HL, Pratt SM, Sammes PJ, Gibb S, Geider RJ
  Photoacclimation in the marine diatom Skeletonema costatum.
  Limnology and Oceanography 45 (8), 1807-1817, 2000

• Brown, BE, Dunne, RP, Warner, ME, Ambarsari, I, Fitt, WK, Gibb, SW, Cummings, DG
  Damage and recovery of Photosystem II during a manipulative field experiment on solar bleaching in the coral Goniastrea aspera.
  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 195, 117-124,2000

• Carole A. Llewellyn and Stuart W. Gibb
  Intra-class variability in the carbon, pigment and biomineral content of prymnesiophytes and diatoms.
  Marine Ecology Progress Series, 193, 33-44, 2000
  
  
• Angela D. Hatton, and Stuart W. Gibb
  A novel technique for the determination of Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) in natural waters, and biological media
  Analytical Chemistry, 71, 4886-4891, 1999
  
  
• Brown BE, Ambarsari I, Warner ME, Fitt WK, Dunne RP, Gibb SW and Cummings DG
  Diurnal changes in photochemical efficiency and xanthophyll concentrations in shallow water reef corals: evidence for photoinhibition and photoprotection.
  Coral Reefs, 18,99-105, 1999
  
  
• S.W. Gibb, R.F.C. Mantoura, P.S. Liss and R.G. Barlow.
  Distributions and Biogeochemistries of Methylamines and Ammonium in the Arabian Sea.
  Deep Sea Research II, 40 (3-4), 593-616, 1999
  
  
• S.W. Gibb, P.S. Liss and R.F C. Mantoura.
  Ocean - atmosphere exchange and atmospheric speciation of methylamines and ammonia in the NW Arabian Sea
  Global Biogeochemical Cycles, volume 13 (1), 161-178, 1999
  
  
• Colomban de Vargas, Richard Norris, Louisette Zaninetti, Stuart W. Gibb Jan Pawlowski
  Molecular Evidence of Cryptic Speciation in Planktonic Foraminifers and their Relation to Oceanic Provinces
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96 (6), 2864-2868, 1999
  
  
• J.M.Baker, C.E.Reeves, S.A.Penkett, P.D.Nightingale, S.W. Gibb and A. D. Hatton
  Biological Production of Methyl Bromide in the Coastal Waters of the North Sea and Open Ocean of the Northeast Atlantic
  Marine Chemistry, 64(4), 267-285, 1999

Studentships
Current:

• Development of Biomarker Protocols to assess the impact of environmental change and genetic diversity on organism and cellular responses
  With Simon Thain and Kenny Boyd
  
  
• Use of natural products in the purification of potable waters and treatment of wastewater UHI Millennium Institute PhD Studentship,East China University of Science and Technology (Dr.S.Lu)
  

• Novel solutions for the remediation of contaminated water
  UHI Millennium Insititute PhD with East China University of Science and Technology (Dr.S.Lu) and Universitat de Girona (Dr. I. Villaescusa)
  
  
• The Environmental Fate of Veterinary Medicines
  With K. Boyd and Schering Plough Animal Health (J Mchenery)
  
  
• Boundary layer wind fields over the Highlands and islands of Scotland : linking the North Atlantic Oscillation to the regional impacts of climate change
  With David Woolf and the National Oceanographic Centre (J. Allen)
  
  
• Assessing the environmental presence of human pharmaceuticals
  With K. Boyd, S.Lu East China University of Science and Technology and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (K. Black)
  

Completed

• Assessing the regional impacts of climate change in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland UHI Millennium Institute PhD with University of Dundee (Dr John Harrison)
  

• Environmental Impacts on freshwater nitrogen biogeochemistry
  ERI-ESF UHI Millennium Institute PhD with Scottish Association for Marine Sciences (Dr Axel Miller) and University of Newcastle (Dr Guenther Uher, Dr Rob Goddard

• Conor McKee - 2001 University of East Anglia.
  Biogeochemical cycles of ammonia and dimethylsulphide in the marine environment.
  Supervisors: Prof. Peter Liss (UEA), Dr. Stuart Gibb (ERI), Dr Phil Nightingale (Plymouth Marine Laboratory).
  
  
• Air-Sea Exchange of Ammonia
  University of East Anglia GANE PhD studentship
  Supervisors: Prof. Peter Liss (UEA), Dr. Stuart Gibb (ERI), Dr.Tim Jickells (UEA)
  

• Acrylic Acid: The forgotten part of the DMS story
  Supervisors: Prof Peter Liss (UEA), Dr.Gill Malin (UEA), Dr.Stuart Gibb (ERI)

Other Info:

• Member of UHI Research Committee
  
  
• Member of UHI Research Degrees Sub-Committee
  
  
• Member of UHI Foundation
  
  
• Member of UHI Sabbatical Committee

Participated in a number of UK and international multi / interdisciplinary programmes in a variety of roles from research to management including:

• EU Northern Peripheral Countries Project: Selection Criteria and Model Evaluation for Waste Disposal in Sparsely Populated Cool Temperate Regions (SEWPER)'
  
  
• EU Northern Peripheral Countries Project: Ecological Use of Peat and Peatlands
  
  
• UK Atmospheric Chemistry in the Marine Environment (ACSOE) Programme
  
  
• DETR Impact of UV on aquatic Ecosystems
  
  
• UK DISCO Programme
  
  
• UK Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Programme
  
  
• NERC Phytoplankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (PRIME) Programme
  
  
• EU Ocean Margin Exchange Programme (OMEX)
  
  
• UK ARABESQUE Indian Ocean Programme
  

• EU European River-Ocean Study (EROS)
  

Including oceanographic research cruises:

• UK DISCO Programme: Northern North Sea; Southampton – Southampton, June – July 1999
  
  
• UK AMT Programme; PML-British Antarctic Survey: North + South Atlantic; Grimsby U.K – Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, Sep-Oct, 1997
  
  
• NERC PRIME Programme: N.E. Atlantic; Reykjavik – Southampton, June – July 1996
  

• EC Ocean Margin Exchange Programme (OMEX): N.E. Atlantic; Reykjavik – Lisbon, September 1995
  
  
• UK ARABESQUE Indian Ocean Programme: Arabian Sea; Muscat – Muscat, July – September 1994 & October - December 1994
  
  
• EC EROS Programme: Western & Eastern Mediterranean; Gibraltar – Monaco, June – July 1993 & Gibraltar – Monaco, July 1993
  
  
  Extended fieldwork at Rothera Field station, Antarctica; December 1998 – February 1999. Studies of Nitrogen-Sulphur Biogeochemistry & Physiological & ecological adaptation of Antarctic phytoplankton

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