The Payne Lab

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My research tends to explore the physiological ecology of animals, particularly those in marine ecosystems. An overarching goal of my work is to understand how environmental variation regulates the physiology and movement of animals and in turn, their distributions. I combine field, laboratory, and theoretical approaches, and work on species spanning cephalopods, sharks, tuna, and commercially important teleosts such as salmonids. I often measure the movement, behaviour, and physiology of animals in their natural environments by drawing on exciting new technologies such as animal-borne accelerometers and video cameras. Some of my current research projects examine the thermal biology of diverse ectotherms, fish ecotourism, and animal energetics. Please get in touch if you would like to hear more about my work.

Research by scientists at Irish universities has found that basking sharks can jump as high and as fast as great whites | https://t.co/erAsclvhUH pic.twitter.com/sEEhCxkIzS

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 20, 2018