Visitor Experience and Hatchery Supervisor

BEN MARSHALL HND, FDSc, BSc

Ben joined us here at the National Lobster Hatchery in February 2013. Originally from Manchester, Ben moved to Cornwall to study Marine Aquaculture (FdSc) through Cornwall College, which he completed in 2007.
During his studies, Ben was employed as an Aquarist at ‘Blue Reef’ Aquarium in Newquay. On completion of the course, he was promoted to Senior Aquarist and helped develop the sites captive breeding programme and was heavily involved with the rehabilitation and repatriation of marine turtles stranded in the U.K. whilst in this role.
Ben is now fully focused now on helping the team to increase production of lobsters to enhance local stocks and aid the conservation of this very important species.

Senior Hatchery Technician

Dr Jacky Tyler, MB BS, BSc

Originally trained and worked as a GP. After moving back to Cornwall Jacky took an honours degree with the OU, with modules in Oceanography, evolution and Pollution control. Enjoys water sports such as sailing, kayaking and diving. Jacky started work at the hatchery in the visitor centre during our busy summer months and fortuitously managed to get the job as hatchery technician.

Senior Hatchery Technician

Chris Weston, BSc

Chris joined the team as a technician at our new hatchery in Newlyn. A keen surfer and freediver in his spare time, he has previously worked at Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay and completed a degree in Zoology, focussing on marine conservation and the impact of pollution.

Hatchery Volunteer

Lawrence Miller

EUROSWAC Research Technician

Theo Johns

Theo studied environmental science at Bournemouth University focussing on his interests within aquatic environments. Since leaving university he has spent time working with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, spending two campaigns volunteering as a marine engineer. In addition to his he has also worked to conserve and protect a selection of reefs within the MPAs surrounding a small Caribbean community using community engagement and physical conservation measures. Theo joined the team last year volunteering in the hatchery as he is now committed to help with the conservation of the special marine environments closer to home around Cornwall, of which his previous generations of family have depended on for their livelihoods whilst fishing out of Newlyn.

EUROSWAC Research Technician

Emma Theobald

David Lockyer

David originally hailed from the South East and moved to Cornwall in 2016 and joined the NLH in April 2017 as bookkeeper. He studied Agriculture in East Sussex and Shropshire before becoming an Accountant in the Agricultural Supply Industry at various locations across the country for the majority of his career.

Finance Assistant

Jennie Corby

Jennie trained and qualified as a primary teacher gaining a BAEd in Music. Whilst raising her two children, she began teaching piano lessons and in her spare time made jewellery to sell at craft fairs and shows. Eventually she retrained in finance and joined the NLH office team in 2019. Jennie continues to teach piano and makes lobster jewellery for the hatchery visitor centre.

Business Development Manager

Clare Stanley, BSc

Clare was born and bred in Padstow and loves nothing more than to be beside the sea. After graduating from university with a degree in biology (specialising in marine biology) she took off travelling before moving to London where she spent 13 years working in music, marketing and PR. Clare returned to Cornwall in 2009 to raise her son Oscar, who has certainly inherited her love for the sea. It was actually during her visits with Oscar to see the ‘baby lobsters’ that Clare developed such a passion for The National Lobster Hatchery and realised her academic background combined with her marketing skills could come to valuable use.

Business Development Coordinator

Ellie Smart

EUROSWAC Communications Officer

Amy Jefferies

Visitor Experience Senior Team

Steph Firman

Visitor Experience Team

Mechelle Guy

Carly Daniels, BSc, PhD

Carly, the Head of Production Research and Development for the NLH, has over 13 years’ experience in the field. Carly pursued a career in Marine Biology from an early age, with a natural interest in the marine environment and the protection of its fascinating array of life-forms. Carly first came to the NLH in 2004 and since then has run the hatchery’s rapidly growing research sector, leading investigations into hatchery culture techniques, mariculture on-growing, development of lobster diets, and the behaviour, physiology, bacteriology, histology, immunology and genetics of wild and cultured lobsters.

Jake Scolding, BSc, MSc

Jake recently re-joined that Hatchery team in his role as Project Officer on the Lobster Grower 2 (LG2) project. He previously worked at the NLH as a research technician from 2008 to 2010 investigating disinfection protocols for rearing larval and post-larval lobsters. For the past 5 years Jake has been employed by the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research at Swansea University conducting research on the early life stages on a number of fish and shellfish species as well as being part-time crew on the University’s Research Vessel Noctiluca. Jake currently works alongside Dr Carly Daniels and Charlie Ellis as part of LG2, a project investigating methods of using sea-based container culture to grow lobsters at sea.