Amelia Bridges

Dr. Amelia Bridges is a Research Fellow in the School of Biological and Marine Sciences at the University of Plymouth. Her research focuses on marine ecology and conservation, particularly deep-sea ecosystems, seamount communities, and climate change impacts on marine biodiversity. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to marine conservation and climate action.

Research areas include:

• Deep-sea benthic community dynamics and biodiversity gradients
• Habitat modeling for data-poor marine regions
• Blue carbon ecosystems in marine protected areas
• Climate change impacts on species distributions
• Application of AI for ecological image analysis

Her publications demonstrate expertise in spatial modeling of marine species distributions, conservation strategy development for vulnerable marine ecosystems, and innovative approaches to ecological monitoring. Recent work includes climate vulnerability assessments of commercially important species and blue carbon quantification in marine protected areas.