Katherine “Frin” Ross is a British

marine biologist Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifi ...

and conservationist who has worked extensively in the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

and

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. She previously served as Marine and Fisheries Officer for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

Career

As part of her doctoral research, Ross studied

benthos Benthos (), also known as benthon, is the community of organisms that live on, in, or near the bottom of a sea, river, lake, or stream, also known as the benthic zone.scallop aquaculture at the

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's Port Erin Marine Laboratory on the

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. She subsequently worked on

marine protected area Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes. These marine areas can come in many forms ranging from wildlife refuges to research facilities. MPAs restrict human activity for a conse ...

policy for the

Joint Nature Conservation Committee The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) is the public body that advises the UK Government and devolved administrations on UK-wide and international nature conservation. Originally established under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, J ...

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, Scotland, and worked on

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus ''Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus '' Oncorhy ...

, sea trout, and shellfish stock assessment and habitat restoration in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, completing an important survey of cockle grounds in 2009 and 2010. Ross then served as Chief Scientist of the British Antarctic Survey's

King Edward Point King Edward Point (also known as KEP) is a permanent British Antarctic Survey research station on South Georgia island and is the capital of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It is situated in Cumberl ...

Research Station in

. She also worked at a freshwater fishery in the

, and her research has included work on conservation of native fish in the Falklands. Ross was appointed as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands' Marine and Fisheries Officer in 2012. She held the post until 2015, when she left to become the Habitats Officer at

Falklands Conservation Falklands Conservation (FC) is a charitable organisation formed to protect the wildlife and the natural environment of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It intends to conserve and undertake scientific research in the biosphere of t ...

. Her current work focuses on collaborating with the local Falklands community to restore eroded areas with native plants.

Selected works

* Kevin A. Hughes, Oliver L. Pescott, Jodey Peyton, Tim Adriaens, Elizabeth J. Cottier‐Cook, Gillian Key, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Elena Tricarico, David K. A. Barnes, Naomi Baxter, Mark Belchier, Denise Blake, Peter Convey, Wayne Dawson, Danielle Frohlich, Lauren M. Gardiner, Pablo González‐Moreno, Ross James, Christopher Malumphy, Stephanie Martin, Angeliki F. Martinou, Dan Minchin, Andrea Monaco, Niall Moore, Simon A. Morley, Katherine Ross, Jonathan Shanklin, Katharine Turvey, David Vaughan, Alexander G. C. Vaux, Victoria Werenkraut, Ian J. Winfield, Helen E. Roy. "Invasive non‐native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region." ''Global Change Biology'', 2020; DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14938 * Smith, Stuart & Ross, Katherine & Karlsson, Susanna & Bond, Brian & Upson, Rebecca & Davey, Alexandra. (2017). "Going native, going local: Revegetating eroded soils on the Falkland Islands using native seeds and farmland waste." ''Restoration Ecology''. 10.1111/rec.12552. * Ross AK and Mackenzie LS, (2010) ''Survey of the cockle grounds of the Western Isles'' ''2009-2010''. * Katherine Ross. ''Freshwater Fish in the Falklands: Conservation of Native Zebra Trout'', report to the Falkland Islands Government and Falklands Conservation (2009) * Ross, Katherine & Thorpe, John & Brand, Andrew. (2004). "Biological control of fouling in suspended scallop cultivation." ''Aquaculture''. 229. 99–116. 10.1016/S0044-8486(03)00328-4. * Ross, K.A. & Thorpe, J.P. & Norton, T.A. & Brand, Andrew. (2002). "Fouling in scallop cultivation: Help or hindrance?" ''Journal of Shellfish Research''. 21. 539–547. * Ross, Katherine & Thorpe, John & Norton, Trevor & Brand, Andrew. (2001). "An assessment of some methods for tagging the great scallop, Pecten maximus." ''Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom''. 81. 975–977. 10.1017/S0025315401004921.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Katherine Living people British women scientists British Antarctic scientists Women Antarctic scientists Falkland Islands people South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands people Year of birth missing (living people)