Sophie is a benthic marine ecologist specialising in quantifying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in seaweed habitats. Her work focuses on assessing the impacts of the seaweed harvesting and aquaculture industries to inform sustainable practices and regulation. Sophie is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research working on the PROTEUS project. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at the London Natural History Museum after completing her PhD at the University of Exeter and the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 

Sophie has also contributed to a European Space Agency project validating air–sea carbon dioxide flux calculations in the Atlantic, and completed an MSci in Marine Biology at the University of Exeter with a focus on developing low-cost methods to quantify CO₂ fluxes in estuarine systems.

For recent updates: https://www.norskelp.org/

Publications:

• Brodie, J., Corrigan, S., Lim, P.E., Wilbraham, J., Poong, S.W., Yahya, N., Beattie, S. and Cottier-Cook, E.J., (2026). Integrating a Global Seaweed Protection Strategy with the Future of the Seaweed Industry. In Advances in Temperate Phyconomy: Algal Harvest and Cultivation in Globally Distributed Temperate Waters: Part II. Springer Nature Switzerland.

• Corrigan, S., Cottier‐Cook, E.J., Lim, P.E., Beattie, S., Kambey, C.S., Poong, S.W., Yahya, N. and Brodie, J., (2026). Assessing the Potential Conservation Role of Other Effective Area‐Based Conservation Measures in Relation to Seaweed Farming. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

• Kambey, C.S., Poong, S.W., Cottier‐Cook, E.J., Brodie, J., Beattie, S., Corrigan, S., Kassim, A., Yahya, N. and Lim, P.E., (2026). Conservation and restoration of red seaweed eucheumatoids in Malaysia: A community insight. Conservation Science and Practice.

• Beattie, S., Kambey, C.S., Corrigan, S., Brodie, J., Lim, P.E., Poong, S.W., Ambo-Rappe, R., Dahlan, D. and Cottier-Cook, E.J., (2026). Conserving seaweeds: knowledge, attitudes, and practices from industry and conservation stakeholders in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Journal of Environmental Management.

• Corrigan S, Smale DA, Tyler CR, Brown AR (2025). Assessing the influence of seaweed and shellfish aquaculture on benthic communities in the western English Channel. Aquac. Environment Interactions.

• Corrigan S, Cottier-Cook EJ, Lim PE, Brodie J (2025). The State of the World's Seaweeds, Natural History Museum. 

• Beattie, S., Brodie, J., Nagabhatla, N., Corrigan, S., Lim, P.E., Poong, S.W., Kambey, C.S. and Cottier‐Cook, E.J., (2025). Recognising seaweeds: addressing gaps in international biodiversity frameworks for global seaweed conservation. Sustainable Development.

• Ford, D.J., Shutler, J.D., Blanco-Sacristán, J., Corrigan, S., Bell, T.G., Yang, M., Kitidis, V., Nightingale, P.D., Brown, I., Wimmer, W. and Woolf, D.K., (2024). Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake due to near-surface temperature gradients. Nature Geoscience.

• Corrigan S, Smale DA, Tyler CR, Brown AR (2024). Quantification of finfish assemblages associated with mussel and seaweed farms in southwest UK provides evidence of potential benefits to fisheries. Aquac. Environment Interactions.

• Walker C, Corrigan S, Daniels C, et al (2023).  Field assessment of the potential for small scale co-cultivation of seaweed and shellfish to regulate nutrients and plankton dynamics. Aquaculture Reports.

• Corrigan S, Brown AR, Tyler CR, et al (2023). Home sweet home: Comparison of epibiont assemblages associated with cultivated and wild sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima), co‑cultivated blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) and farm infrastructure. Journal of Applied Phycology. 

• Corrigan S, Brown AR, Tyler CR, et al (2023). Development and diversity of epibiont assemblages on cultivated sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) in relation to farming schedules and harvesting techniques. Life.

• Corrigan S, Brown AR, Ashton IGC, Smale DA, Tyler CR (2022). Quantifying habitat provisioning at macroalgal cultivation sites. Reviews in Aquaculture.

• Wilding C, Tillin H, Corrigan S, et al. (2021) Seaweed aquaculture and mechanical harvesting: an evidence review to support sustainable management. Natural England Commissioned Reports.