Dr Colin Bull

Senior Lecturer in Aquaculture

Institute of Aquaculture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Dr Colin Bull

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About me

Past experience

Project manager: Conservation of Atlantic salmon in Scotland (CASS) LIFE project. SNH (Battleby, Perthshire) Biologist: Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust. (Rowardennan, Glasgow) Executive manager and biologist: Forth Fisheries Foundation. University of Stirling (Stirling) International Aquarium Research Co-ordinator: Project Seahorse, John G. Shedd Aquarium (Chicago, USA)and McGill University (Montreal, Canada) Field Researcher. Environment and Natural Resources Institute. (Anchorage Alaska, USA)

Education 1996 PhD - The feeding and fat dynamics of resident juvenile Atlantic salmon during winter – University of Glasgow 1993 1st class (Hons) Biology – University of Stirling

Research (30)

Projects

Secondment to Atlantic Salmon Trust
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Atlantic Salmon Trust

Keltie Burn EIA for Cemex
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Cemex

Invertebrate survey of Keltie Water for Cemex
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Cemex

DEVELOPMENT OF AN eDNA DATA SET TO PRODUCE A WFD COMPATIBLE CLASSIFICATION TOOL FOR LAKE FISH IN SCOTLAND
PI: Professor Nigel Willby
Funded by: Scottish Environment Protection Agency

River Forth Fish habitat survey
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: SLR Consulting Ltd

White Cart Lamprey Relocation
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Applied Ecology Ltd

Lamprey site condition monitoring Tweed
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: NatureScot (Formerly Scottish Natural Heritage)

SNH – Lamprey Site Condition monitoring survey of Spey SAC
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: NatureScot (Formerly Scottish Natural Heritage)

WFD111 (2A) Coarse Resolution Rapid-Assessment Methdology
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Millbank fish monitoring
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

WFD1112a river barrier assessment training
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Environment Agency

Revision of Common Standards Monitoring Techniques for Lamprey
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: NatureScot (Formerly Scottish Natural Heritage)

Rapid Barrier Assessment - Sherrif's Park Weir - River Leith
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Eden Rivers Trust

GHR Coilte fluvial
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Green Highland Renewables

Freshwater Bio-assessment and its application in catchment management
PI: Professor Nigel Willby
Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council

RRFT Dee
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: River Forth Fisheries Trust

Afton windfarm
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: AA Enviro

Ardeonaig Hydro Fish Survey
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Campbell of Doune Ltd

Collection of additional information on fish passage at a waterfall on Allt Shallainn
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Green Highland Renewables

Fish Access Study
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Green Highland Renewables

Kier Mining
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Kier Construction Ltd

Coulie Burn Fish Survey
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Drummond Estates

Selkirk Lamprey Rescue and Relocation
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Applied Ecology Ltd

Proposal for the collection of additional information on fish habitat quality at Shenval, Coiltie and Arkaig.
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Green Highland Renewables

Collection of additional information on fish passage at a waterfall on Abhainn Bruachaig
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Green Highland Renewables

The Collection and Analysis of UK larval Lamprey dataset to determine variance and inform future monitoring strategies
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: NatureScot (Formerly Scottish Natural Heritage)

Fish Monitoring Service at Lochwinnoch
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

A9/A85 Crieff Road Junction Redevelopment , Fish Survey
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Halcrow Group Ltd

Lamprey SAC's Site Condition Monitoring
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Waterside Ecology

Trialling of the methodology for quantifying the impacts of obstacles to fish passage
PI: Dr Colin Bull
Funded by: Institute of Fisheries Management and Sniffer

Outputs (26)

Outputs

Research Report

Banas N, Bean C, Bolstad GH, Bull C, Campbell A, Dauphin G, de Eyto E, Diack G, Elliott S, Gregory S, Head E, Johns D, Kavanagh A & McGinnity P (2023) The Second ICES/NASCO Workshop on Salmon Mortality at Sea (WKSalmon2; outputs from 2022 meeting). Bill C (Editor) & Nolan G (Editor) International Council For The Exploration of the Seas (ICES) ICES Scientific Reports, 5:36. Copenhagen. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.22560790


Article

Diack G, Bull C, Akenhead SA, van der Stap T, Johnson BT, Rivot E, Patin R, Hernvann P, Schubert A, Bird T, Saunders M & Crozier W (2022) Enhancing data mobilisation through a centralised data repository for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Providing the resources to promote an ecosystem-based management framework.. Ecological Informatics, 70, Art. No.: 101746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101746


Article

Woodward G, Morris O, Barquín J, Belgrano A, Bull C, de Eyto E, Friberg N, Guðbergsson G, Layer-Dobra K, Lauridsen RB, Lewis HM, McGinnity P, Pawar S, Rosindell J & O’Gorman EJ (2021) Using Food Webs and Metabolic Theory to Monitor, Model, and Manage Atlantic Salmon—A Keystone Species Under Threat. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, Art. No.: 675261. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.675261