Melissa Ramsay

@melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social

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PhD researcher at St Andrews' Centre for Biological Diversity and the Scottish Oceans Institute. Sensory ecology - animal (multi)sensory processing - intertidal scavengers. 🦀🌊🐟🫧 EastBio EDI/Student Rep (she/her)🌈🍉🌱

View of St Andrews and the castle across the sea from the intertidal field site
The largest rockpool we run field trials in. Three floats can be seen in the water, in the sun with blue sky above.
Cover of The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Video of a green ragworm swimming in a shallow sandy rockpool
Three members of team fish wearing waders and carrying buckets across the rocky shore
A picture of me standing in front of my poster, titled The acoustic ecology of foraging intertidal invertebrates and fish, talking to a fellow sensory ecology researcher
Three trays of oilseed-rape(OSR) plants The plants in the tray on the right are looking a lot healthier and larger than the other two.
Five members of "team fish" in our waders and woolly hats in front of the main rockpool, with a grey sky behind us.
A photo of myself and a colleague hunched over sitting on buckets in the rockpools to count shell species.
A moon jelly pulsing in a rockpool with very clear water, surrounded by shells and rocks.
Hoverfly on a yellow poppy
A picture of me standing in front of my slide showing preliminary results from my first PhD studies.
A video underwater in a rockpool. First a hermit crab appears being chased by a shore crab, and then a predator dives in to catch another hermit crab.
Eastbio panel seated in front of our student and supervisor audience in the conference room.
Six people walking across the rockpools covered in seaweed under a grey sky.
Rocky shore with members of our research group searching in the rockpools and a clear blue sky above.
Animal Life section of the National Museum of Scotland.
A willow tree next to the river Eden in Cupar, with sunlight streaming through the leaves.
Rockpools in the sun, blue sky and white fluffy clouds.
Video of the sharks and rays tank at St Andrews Aquarium.
Landscape consisting of a path in the foreground, then a bench on some grass and the calm sea beyond, with a yellow/blue horizon and sky.
A rockpool surrounded by high rocks and seaweed, with the sun shining on the rocks and a clear blue sky.
An underwater bait site in a rockpool. Two hermit crabs tear at the bait (a mussel), whilst several gobies dart above, feeding on the small particles of food released by the hermit crabs.
Sandy and rocky shore with waves and clear blue sky in the background
Rocky shore field site