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Marine Conservationist

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?”

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What is Celia Harvey’s Habitat Integrity Index, and which countries use it?
The Habitat Integrity Index quantifies functional connectivity, sediment stability, and larval retention capacity across seafloor habitats using multi-source bathymetric, current, and biodiversity data. Harvey co-designed it with DEFRA and ICES to replace static habitat mapping with dynamic vulnerability scoring. It’s formally embedded in Germany’s North Sea spatial planning framework, adopted by Ireland’s Marine Institute for MPA expansion, and piloted in Norway’s Skagerrak assessments.
Did Celia Harvey contribute to the UK’s 2023 Marine Protected Areas expansion?
Yes, she led the scientific advisory group that identified priority deep-sea sponge grounds off Rockall Bank using autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) photogrammetry and environmental DNA metabarcoding. Her team’s evidence directly supported the designation of the 140,000 km² West of Scotland MPA, the UK’s largest single marine reserve, with legally binding restrictions on bottom trawling and seismic surveying.
What role did Celia Harvey play in the OSPAR Commission’s climate-ocean reporting?
She chaired the OSPAR Working Group on Climate Change Effects from 2020 to 2023, drafting Annex V of the 2023 Quality Status Report, the first pan-North-East Atlantic assessment linking regional sea surface temperature anomalies to shifts in copepod phenology and herring recruitment failure. Her methodology integrated citizen science buoy data with satellite chlorophyll-A trends to model trophic mismatch risk.
Has Celia Harvey published field protocols for detecting microplastic ingestion in wild cetaceans?
She co-authored the 2021 Cetacean Tissue Biobanking Standard (CTBS), which includes validated histological staining protocols for identifying polymer-specific fluorescence signatures in stomach linings and lung macrophages. The protocol has been used in strandings networks across the Northeast Atlantic and informed the IUCN’s 2023 Microplastics Impact Assessment Framework for Odontocetes.
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