Professor Trevor Telfer

Professor

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

Professor Trevor Telfer

About me

Professor Trevor Telfer has over 40 years experience in marine environmental resource assessment and development. After working in the areas of marine conservation and impacts of marine hydrocarbons, he completed a PhD in marine ecotoxicology at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He joined the Institute of Aquaculture in 1995 and has spent the last 30 years developing and managing academic and commercial research on interactions between aquaculture and the environment. His research is both UK and international based on environmental sustainability of aquaculture. He lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in aquaculture and marine biology. Trevor has been principal supervisor to 21 successful PhD researchers, and additional/supporting supervisor for a further 26 PGRs.

Research, based in the EU, South-East Asia and Africa, includes; Assessment and modelling environmental impacts and carrying capacity of aquatic systems for aquaculture, sustainable development of aquaculture, ecotoxicology of aquaculture chemicals, and mitigation of aquaculture impacts using emerging technologies.  He has been a research partner in 8 EU projects and had a number of NERC studentships. Between 2016 and 2020 he was overall coordinator for the, sixteen partner, EU H2020 TAPAS (Tools for Assessment and Planning of Aquaculture Sustainability) project working on licensing and regulation of aquaculture in Europe through carrying capacity and effective environmental resource use. More recently, his research has been looking into sustainability of freshwater cage aquaculture in Scotland and East Africa.

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