Dr Jennie Mallela

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Coral Reef Ecology

Education:

• B.Sc. Environmental Bio-Geo Science - University of Leeds, UK (1996)
• M.Sc. Marine Resource Management - Heriot-Watt University, UK (1997)
• Ph.D. Coral Reef Ecology - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (2004)

• The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (from September 2006)
• Max-Planck Institute of Limnology, Germany, Visiting researcher (2005-2006)
• School for Field Studies, Turks & Caicos Islands, Lecturer (2005)
• Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, PhD research (2000-2004) - Coral reef communities and carbonate production, Rio Bueno, Jamaica

• How environmental disturbances influence the balance between constructive and destructive processes on coral reefs (e.g. carbonate production and bioerosion).

• Turbid-zone reef development and function

• Climate change: implications for the marine environment

• Land-sea interactions: how terrestrial inputs can influence coral reef communities

• Coral reef conservation and restoration
• Marine Resource Management

• The influence of South American river runoff (Amazon and Orinoco) on coral reef development in Trinidad and Tobago

• Using stable isotopes (δ¹³C & δ¹⁵N) to examine resource use in coral reef habitats

• Coral sclerochronology: using coral skeletons to decipher past climate conditions

• Human impacts on coral reefs

Project partners and related links:

• The Buccoo Reef Trust: http://www.buccooreef.org/

• Land-sea interactions: http://www.buccooreef.org/landsea.html

• The Royal geographic Society (UK): http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/E97FB435-68E7-463C-90CD-2AED15BA7998/0/JennieMallelaprofile.pdf

Selected Bibliography:

• Mallela J, Harrod C (in press) δ13C and δ15N reveal significant differences in the coastal foodwebs of the seas surrounding the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Marine Ecology Progress Series, in press

• Mallela J, Parkinson R (in press) Coral disease succession in Tobago: from yellow band to black band disease. Coral Reefs, in press

• Mallela J (2007) Coral reef encruster communities and carbonate production in cryptic and exposed coral reef habitats along a gradient of terrestrial disturbance. Coral Reefs, v 26:775-785

• Mallela J, Perry CT (2007) Calcium carbonate budgets for two coral reefs affected by different terrestrial runoff regimes, Rio Bueno, Jamaica. Coral Reefs, v 26:53-68

• Mallela J, Roberts CA, Harrod C, Goldspink CR (2007) Distributional patterns and community structure of Caribbean coral reef fishes within a river-impacted bay. Journal of Fish Biology, v 70:523-537

• Mallela, J, Perry, C. T, Haley, M. P. (2004) Reef morphology and community composition along a turbid, fluvially influenced embayment, Rio Bueno, Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Science, v 40: 299-311. http://caribjsci.org/dec04/40_299-311.pdf

• Mallela, J (2004) Coral reef communities and carbonate production in a fluvially-influenced embayment, Rio Bueno, Jamaica. PhD. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. pp 224.

• Mallela, J (2003) Fluvial impacts on coral reef framework, carbonate production, and community composition. Report for the Royal Geographic Society (with IBG), UK, Slawson Award 2002, pp 30.
  

Professional Memberships

• International Society for Reef Studies (ISRS)

• Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI)