Kerry Howell

Profile summary

I am deputy programme leader for the BSc (Hons) Marine Biology and Oceanography at the University of Plymouth. I am also an active academic researcher working on various topics related to conservation and sustainable management of the deep sea and High Seas, and marine habitat mapping.

Roles on external bodies

Co-lead of the UN endorsed Challenger 150 Ocean Decade Programme
Member of the NERC Marine Facilities Advisory Board
Member of the NERC Upscaling Autonomy Working Group
Member of the NOC Association Board
Member of the Science Advisory Board for Ascension Island MPA
Member of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea's Working Group on Deep-Sea Ecology
NERC peer review college member
Co-Chair of the SCOR working group (2020–2022)
Chair of the Challenger Society Deep Sea Special Interest Group (2018 to present)

Supervised research degrees

Amelia Bridges - PhD PhD title "Ecological studies of the South Atlantic deep sea to inform sustainable management". 2022
Erin Browne - ResM title "A step towards automating real-time collection of ecological data on observational platforms : a pilot study on deep-sea benthic species Syringammina fragilissima" 2022
Poppy Hesketh Best - PhD title "Deep-sea discovery - mining marine environments for novel biologics" 2021
Molly James - PhD "Mechanisms of vertical movement in meroplankton: A primer of dispersal" 2021.
Nils Piechaud - PhD "The application of autonomous underwater vehicles to the study of benthic ecology" 2020.
Kirsty McQuaid - PhD The application of predictive modelling to marine spatial planning associated with deep-sea mining, 2020.
Rebecca Ross - PhD Investigating the role of larval dispersal models in the development of an 'ecologically coherent' network of deep sea marine protected areas, 2016
Charlotte Marshall - PhD Species distribution modelling to support marine conservation planning, 2011
Jaime Davies - PhD Mapping Deep-Sea Features in UK Waters For Use in Marine Protected Area Network Design. 2011
Rebecca Jefferson - PhD Communicating Marine Environmental Health: Connecting Science, Social and Policy Values, 2010

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 14 Life Below Water
SDG 15 Life on Land
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics where Kerry Howell is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

1 Similar Profiles

Intergenerational Codesign of Novel technologies In Coastal communities (ICONIC)
Jones, R. (PI - Principal Investigator), Aly, A. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Bazazian, D. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Gaudl, S. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Veliz Reyes, A. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Baxter, R. (RF - Research Fellow), Hagen, O. (RF - Research Fellow), Varga, M. (RF - Research Fellow), Zhang, L. (RF - Research Fellow), Asthana, S. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Howell, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Maudlin, D. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Ifeachor, E. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Willis, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator) & Zhou, S.-M. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/11/22 → 30/04/25
Project: Research
Oceanographic drivers of ecosystem variability in the Chagos Archipelago, Phase 1
Hosegood, P. (PI - Principal Investigator), Foster, N. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Embling, C. (CoI - Co-Investigator), Howell, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator) & Attrill, M. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
1/09/19 → 31/08/21
Project: Research
Underwater Image Enhancement Based on Neural Rendering
Bazazian, D. (PI - Principal Investigator) & Howell, K. (CoI - Co-Investigator)
1/05/23 → 31/10/23
Project: Internal

83 Article
20 Chapter
17 Commissioned report
3 Conference paper (not formally published)
More
- 2 Review article
- 1 Preprint

Science challenges and solutions to support implementation of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement
Szostek, C. L., Atkinson, A., Martinez-Vicente, V., Queirós, A. M., Miller, P. I., Howell, K. L., Millington, R. C., Kay, S., Faith, M., Tait, K., Talbot, E., Rees, A., Lyal, C., Ardron, J. & Frost, M., 20 Mar 2026, In: npj Ocean Sustainability.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
File
2 Downloads (Pure)
Testing the transferability of AI models for cold-water coral detection and classification
Graves, K. P., Allcock, L., Barnes, D. K. A., Bridges, A. E. H. & Howell, K. L., May 2026, In: Ecological Informatics. 95, 103749.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
File
Deep-sea ecosystems of the North Atlantic Ocean: discovery, status, function and future challenges
Allcock, A. L., Amon, D. J., Bridges, A. E. H., Colaço, A., Escobar-Briones, E., Hilário, A., Howell, K. L., Mestre, N. C., Muller-Karger, F. E., Priede, I. G., Snelgrove, P. V. R., Sealey, K. S., Xavier, J. R., Addamo, A. M., Amaro, T., Bandara, G., Bax, N., Braga-Henriques, A., Brandt, A. & Brix, S. & 52 others, Cambronero-Solano, S., Cedeño – Posso, C., Copley, J. T., Cordes, E., Cortés, J., Croquer, A., Cuvelier, D., Davies, J. S., Durden, J. M., Esquete, P., Foster, N. L., Frutos, I., Gasbarro, R., Gates, A. R., Gomes, M., Goodwin, L. V. M., Horton, T., Hourigan, T., Hoving, H. J., Jones, D. O. B., Joshi, S., Kingon, K. C., Lörz, A. N., Martins, A., Merten, V., Metaxas, A., Milligan, R. J., Molodtsova, T. N., Morato, T., Morrissey, D., Naranjo-Elizondo, B., Narayanaswamy, B. E., Olafsdottir, S. H., Parimbelli, A., Peña, M., Piechaud, N., Ragnarsson, S., Ramalho, S. P., Rodrigues, C. F., Ross, R. E., Saeedi, H., Santos, R., Schwing, P. T., Serpa, T., Shantharam, A. K., Stevenson, A., Yánez-Suárez, A. B., Sutton, T. T., Svavarsson, J., Taylor, M. L., van der Grient, J. & Zwerschke, N., Dec 2025, In: Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 226, 104580.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Open Access
File
1 Downloads (Pure)
Impact of growth conditions on the abundance and diversity of cultivable bacteria recovered from Pheronema carpenteri and investigation of their antimicrobial potential
Conway, J., January, G. G., Muddiman, K. J., Dorrington, R., Howell, K. L. & Upton, M., 7 Nov 2025, In: FEMS Microbes. 6, xtaf016.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
File
3 Downloads (Pure)
Practical application of artificial intelligence for ecological image analysis: Trialling different levels of taxonomic classification to promote convolutional neural network performance
Bridges, A. E. H., Cross, E., Graves, K. P., Piechaud, N., Raymont, A. & Howell, K. L., Sept 2025, In: Ecological Informatics. 88, 103146.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
File
13 Downloads (Pure)

Global, open-access benthic & pelagic datasets (30m+) - Bridges and Howell (2025)
Bridges, A. (Creator) & Howell, K. (Creator), ZENODO, 27 May 2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15487410, https://zenodo.org/records/15487410
Dataset
Sampling Effort Metadata for the Central and South Atlantic Offshore and Deep-Sea Benthos
Bridges, A. E. H. (Creator), Atkinson, L. (Creator), Butt, S. (Creator), Doti, B. L. (Creator), Jones, D. O. B. (Creator), Lauretta, D. (Creator), McQuaid, K. A. (Creator) & Howell, K. L. (Creator), ZENODO, 30 Nov 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7381493, https://zenodo.org/records/7381493
Dataset

Professor Kerry Howell

Overview

Profile summary

Roles on external bodies

Supervised research degrees

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

Fingerprint

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

Dive into details

Intergenerational Codesign of Novel technologies In Coastal communities (ICONIC)

Oceanographic drivers of ecosystem variability in the Chagos Archipelago, Phase 1

Underwater Image Enhancement Based on Neural Rendering

Science challenges and solutions to support implementation of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement

Testing the transferability of AI models for cold-water coral detection and classification

Deep-sea ecosystems of the North Atlantic Ocean: discovery, status, function and future challenges

Impact of growth conditions on the abundance and diversity of cultivable bacteria recovered from Pheronema carpenteri and investigation of their antimicrobial potential

Practical application of artificial intelligence for ecological image analysis: Trialling different levels of taxonomic classification to promote convolutional neural network performance

Global, open-access benthic & pelagic datasets (30m+) - Bridges and Howell (2025)

Sampling Effort Metadata for the Central and South Atlantic Offshore and Deep-Sea Benthos

Professor Kerry Howell

Overview

Profile summary

Roles on external bodies

Supervised research degrees

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

Fingerprint

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

Projects

Research output

Datasets