Rate My Professor Richard Unsworth

Dr Richard Unsworth is an Associate Professor in Biosciences at Swansea University. His expertise lies in the ecological structuring processes of marine systems and the implications of these systems for society, with a primary focus on the interrelationships between foundation species, habitat, and associated productive fauna, mainly fish. He is particularly interested in the consequences of cross-scale environmental changes on seagrass meadows and the implications for global food security and other ecosystem services. Richard has more than twelve years of research experience in marine systems and conducts collaborative interdisciplinary research across Europe, Australia, Indonesia, Colombia, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

After completing his PhD in 2007, Richard conducted research and consulting work for Sinclair Knight Merz in Brisbane and the Northern Fisheries Centre in Queensland, Australia, and served as a senior ecology lecturer at the University of Glamorgan. He leads the level 3 module in Tropical marine ecology and conservation and teaches on the MSc module Conservation of aquatic resources. Richard is an academic editor at PLoS One, vice-president of the World Seagrass Association, a founding director of Project Seagrass, and a senior scientist at SeagrassWatchHQ. He also serves on the editorial boards of Marine Pollution Bulletin and Marine Environmental Research. His current research projects examine the impact of climate variability on seagrass ecosystems, social-ecological systems analysis, ocean acidification and seagrass, and the resilience and ecosystem service provision of seagrass.