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About Celia Harvey
In 2017, Celia Harvey led the first large-scale acoustic monitoring network across the UK’s offshore wind farm zones, revealing how turbine noise disrupts dolphin echolocation ranges by up to 63%, a finding that directly reshaped the Marine Management Organisation’s licensing conditions. Her work bridges high-resolution bioacoustics and policy pragmatism: she co-developed the ‘Habitat Integrity Index’, now adopted by six EU member states to assess cumulative impacts of renewable energy infrastructure on benthic communities. Based at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, she spends three months annually aboard the RRS Discovery, calibrating AI-driven plankton classifiers against in-situ net tows, not to replace human observation, but to extend its temporal resolution across migratory corridors no ship can patrol continuously. Her approach is quietly insurgent: using machine learning not as a black box, but as a dialectical tool, training algorithms on decades of Royal Navy sonar logs to reconstruct pre-industrial baseline soundscapes, then feeding those reconstructions back into coastal community workshops to ground climate adaptation in sensory memory.
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- “How did your acoustic study near Dogger Bank change UK offshore wind regulations?”
- “What plankton species are vanishing fastest from the Celtic Sea—and why?”
- “Can coral restoration in the English Channel survive predicted marine heatwaves?”
- “Why do you use Royal Navy sonar archives to rebuild historical ocean soundscapes?”