CDT SIS and ICER graduate Dr Helen Currie recently won an award for this poster presentation “Sounds Fishy to me” at the Doctoral Awards 2021 in the Natural Life Science category.
Tag Archive: Helen Currie
Jun 11
Festival of Doctoral Research Awards 2021
The Festival of Doctoral Research went online this year. In the two-day conference-style event on the 9th and 10th June considering the unique challenges that have faced PGRs this year, celebrating PGRs’ achievements in the face of these, and reflecting upon what PGRs’ experiences during the pandemic mean for their future and that of doctoral research.  ​​​​​​​ …
May 07
Collective behaviour of the European minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) is influenced by signals of differing acoustic complexity
Collective behaviour of the European minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) is influenced by signals of differing acoustic complexity Author links Helen A.L.CurrieaPaul R.WhitebTimothy G.LeightonbPaul S.Kempa Behavioural Processes Available online 7 May 2021, 104416 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104416 Highlights • We tested how acoustic complexity affects group behaviour of socially shoaling fish. • Fish startled, and altered group swimming speed in …
Sep 01
A mechanical approach to understanding the impact of the nematode Anguillicoloides crassus on the European eel swimbladder
Research Article Each CDT SIS cohort undertake a group project with researchers from different disciplines working together to understand and research a complex real world problem sustainable engineering problems.
Jun 17
Analogies in contextualizing human response to airborne ultrasound and fish response to acoustic noise and deterrents
Research Article Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. 37, 010014 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001260 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  Timothy G. Leighton1, Helen A. L. Currie2, Amelia Holgate2, Craig N. Dolder1, Sian Lloyd Jones1, Paul R. White1, and Paul S. Kemp2 Published Online: 17 June 2020 ABSTRACT In assessing the impact of sound on aquatic life, or its potential to guide fauna away …
Mar 17
Group behavior and tolerance of Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) in response to tones of differing pulse repetition rate
Research Article  Helen A. L. Currie1,b),  Paul R. White2,c),  Timothy G. Leighton2,d), and  Paul S. Kemp1,e) The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America > Volume 147, Issue 3 > 10.1121/10.0000910 Published Online: 17 March 2020 ABSTRACT Behavioral guidance systems are commonly used in freshwater fish conservation. The biological relevance of sound to fish and recorded responses to human-generated noise …
Jan 30
Group behavioral responses of juvenile common carp (Cyprinus carpio) to pulsed tonal stimuli in the presence of masking noise.
Currie, H. A. L., White, P., Leighton, T., & Kemp, P. (2019). Paper presented at The Fifth International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, Den Haag, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001180 Published Online: 30 January 2020 ABSTRACT Acoustic behavioral deterrent systems are deployed to control range expansion of invasive species, and protect migratory fish from hazardous …
Aug 09
Helen Currie featured in Nature International Journal of Science
Helen Currie showcases her migratory-fish research at a UK festival to spread awareness to the public. Photo Credit: Gerardo Espindola Garcia Helen Currie, a fourth year CDT SIS Postgraduate Researcher, has been featured in Nature International Journal of Science talking about her outreach work with the University of Southampton Public Engagement team.
Apr 22
World Fish Migration Day at National Trust Mottisfont House and gardens
Fisheries scientists from the University of Southampton ran a day long interactive stall to promote World Fish Migration Day and the launch of the AMBER Citizen Science portal at the Mottisfont House and Gardens National Trust site, UK on the 21st April 2018.
Sep 02
Bournemouth Airshow
The Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Infrastructure Systems attended the Bournemouth Airshow on the 31st August-1st September 2017. Two of our iPhD researchers, Helen Currie and Gerardo Espindola Garcia, attended the event to showcase the CDT’s research into fish passage, fish migration, hydroelectric power and the reintroduction of the European or Eurasian Beaver into …