Research Centres | Dr. Henk van Rein

Dr. Henk van Rein - Marine Research Technician

2007 - 2011 - Ph.D. in Marine Ecology, entitled "Monitoring methods for assessing change in seabed communities", at University of Ulster, Coleraine.

1999 - 2001 - B.Sc. (Hons) in Marine Biology at University of Wales, Swansea.

Research Interests

Subtidal benthic ecology with specific interests in habitat mapping and hard-benthic community monitoring.

Fin-fish community sampling methodology and community assessment techniques.

Publications

Van Rein, H., Brown, C. J., Quinn, R. and Breen, J. 2009. A review of sublittoral monitoring methods in temperate waters: a focus on scale. Underwater Technology, 28, 3: 1-15.
Van Rein, H., Brown C. J., Quinn, R., Breen, J. and Schoeman, D. 2011a. An evaluation of acoustic seabed classification techniques for marine biotope monitoring over broad-scales (> 1 km²) and meso-scales (10 m² - 1 km²). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 93: 336-349.
Van Rein, H. Schoeman, D. S., Brown, C. J., Quinn, R. and Breen, J. 2011b. Development of benthic monitoring methods using photoquadrats and SCUBA on heterogeneous hard-substrata: A boulder-slope community case study. Aquatic Conservation 21 (7): 676-689. DOI: 10.1002/acq.1224.
Van Rein, H., Brown, C. J., Schoeman, D. S., Quinn, R. and Breen, J. 2011c. Fixed-station monitoring of a harbour wall community: The utility of low-cost photomosaics and SCUBA on hard-substrata. Aquatic Conservation 21 (7): 690-703. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1230.
Van Rein, H. B., Schoeman, D., Brown, C. B., Quinn, R. and Breen, J. 2012. Development of low-cost image mosaics of hard-bottom sessile communities using SCUBA: comparisons of optical media and proxy measures of community structure. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92 (1): 49-62. DOI: 10.1017/ S0025315411000233.

Roles at the QML

Contact details

Tel: 0044 (0) 2842 727801

Email: h.vanrein@qub.ac.uk

Room: 77 003 0G 009

Queen's University Marine Laboratory