Nick graduated with a BSc Honours degree in Environmental Biology from Swansea University in 1979. He then spent 25 years working in IT as a systems designer and programmer. Wanting a new challenge he returned to science and took an MSc in Biological Diversity at the University of Plymouth. In 2008, Nick joined the Behavioural Ecology Group at the MBA as a Research Assistant and part-time PhD student. Nick is interested in exploring ecological problems through computer modelling and simulations, with a particular focus on the foraging behaviour of marine vertebrates.

CONTACT DETAILS

email: nicmph@mba.ac.uk

telephone: +44 (0) 1752 633287

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Hays, G. C., T. Bastian, T. K. Doyle, S. Fossette, A. C. Gleiss, M. B. Gravenor, V. J. Hobson, N. E. Humphries, M. K. S. Lilley, N. G. Pade, and D. W. Sims. 2011. High activity and Lévy searches: jellyfish can search the water column like fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Humphries, N. E., N. Queiroz, J. R. M. Dyer, N. G. Pade, M. K. Musyl, K. M. Schaefer, D. W. Fuller, J. M. Brunnschweiler, T. K. Doyle, J. D. R. Houghton, G. C. Hays, C. S. Jones, L. R. Noble, V. J. Wearmouth, E. J. Southall, and D. W. Sims. 2010. Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators. Nature 465:1066-1069.

Pade, N. G., N. Queiroz, N. E. Humphries, M. J. Witt, C. S. Jones, L. R. Noble, and D. W. Sims. 2009. First results from satellite-linked archival tagging of porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus: Area fidelity, wider-scale movements and plasticity in diel depth changes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 370:64-74.

Queiroz, N., N. E. Humphries, L. R. Noble, A. M. Santos, and D. W. Sims. 2010. Short-term movements and diving behaviour of satellite-tracked blue sharks Prionace glauca in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 406:265-279.

Sims, D. W., N. Queiroz, N. E. Humphries, F. P. Lima, and G. C. Hays. 2009. Long-Term GPS Tracking of Ocean Sunfish Mola mola Offers a New Direction in Fish Monitoring. PLoS ONE 4:6.

Sims, D. W., E. J. Southall, N. E. Humphries, G. C. Hays, C. J. A. Bradshaw, J. W. Pitchford, A. James, M. Z. Ahmed, A. S. Brierley, M. A. Hindell, D. Morritt, M. K. Musyl, D. Righton, E. L. C. Shepard, V. J. Wearmouth, R. P. Wilson, M. J. Witt, and J. D. Metcalfe. 2008. Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour. Nature 451:1098-1102.