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An academic from Queen's University School of Biological Sciences is one of only five academics from across the UK who were asked to deliver an Award Lecture at the 2013 British Science Festival.

Dr Jonathan Houghton, joins the ranks of previous award lecturers including particle physicist and TV presenter Professor Brian Cox, Professor Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor, and space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock.

Dr Houghton presented his lecture on the 10th September.

Each year, five academics from across the UK are selected to take part in the Award Lecture series, with each lecture encompassing a different area of science.

Dr Houghton delivered the Lyell Award Lecture, which focused on the environmental sciences.  Entitled Blue seas research: predators and prey in an ever-changing system, his lecture considered the growing pressures faced by marine systems today.  Complex issues including overfishing, pollution and climate change, seamlessly interweave to bring about wholesale shifts in marine communities over regional and global scales.  The challenge facing marine scientists is not only to identify when such changes have occurred, but to do so before it is too late.  More...

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