Laurence is a marine ecologist and lecturer in ecology and environmental change at the University of Glasgow (UK). Her work mostly focuses on benthic ecosystems with a particular emphasis on developing innovative tools to quantify biodiversity, behaviour, biomass, and nutrient cycling to understand the impact of natural, human and climate-change driven changes. By combining image, passive acoustic, bathymetry and microbiome data with machine learning approaches, she has advanced methods to understand how species distribution and behaviour change in time and space.
PhD students
Viktor Wu (2025-2029) The marine rewilding effect: Building a cost-effective framework for measuring Marine Net Gain.
Melissa Ardila-Villamizar (2024-2027): Urban biodiversity in the neotropics: Understanding the ecological factors that affect avian diversity within Colombian cities using bio-and eco acoustics.
Corie Bookulos (2023-2026): Constructing 3D models of cold-water coral reef habitats to acquire an understanding of these habitats and how environmental drivers affect their distribution across environmental gradients.
Poppy Clark (2021-2025): The role of sponge competition in cold-water coral reefs – ROV video analyses and secondary metabolite profiling in the search for compounds of medical and ecological relevance.
Technicians
Ross Barnett (2024): Investigating how passive acoustic monitoring can be used to detect changes in the communities of fish and benthic macrofauna around offshore windfarms in the UK.
Jordan Henderson (2024-2025): Developing a workflow using a long-term image and soundscape deep-sea coral reef dataset, integrating marine-, machine learning- and arts-based knowledge and approaches.
Laurence De Clippele's Research Group 