Dr Amani Becker

Job Title

Coastal Scientist

Site

Liverpool

Email

abeck@noc.ac.uk

Biography

I am a coastal scientist specialising in marine ecosystem services, with expertise in microphytobenthos and sediment biogeochemistry. My research focuses on coastal processes, resilience and the role of blue carbon ecosystems in climate mitigation. I am currently working to improve understanding of blue carbon ecosystems by modelling the carbon sequestration and storage potential of saltmarsh and seagrass environments under different scenarios.

My work is interdisciplinary, taking whole-system approaches to understand socio-environmental feedbacks and to enhance the impact of coastal research. I have led and contributed to projects across the UK, the Western Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, addressing challenges related to carbon storage, sea-level change and coastal protection. Alongside my research, I have extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and delivering capacity-building initiatives to support evidence-based coastal management.

Projects

FOCUS - Future states Of the global Coastal ocean: Understanding for Solutions, https://projects.noc.ac.uk/focus/
ReSOW UK - Recovery of Seagrass for Ocean Wealth UK, http://resow.uk/
Co-Opt - Resilient coasts: optimising co-benefit solutions, https://projects.noc.ac.uk/co-opt/
PASS-SWIO - Portagauge And Satellite Sea level monitoring system for the SouthWest Indian Ocean, https://www.satoc.eu/projects/pass-swio/
SOLSTICE-WIO - Sustainable Oceans, Livelihoods and food Security Through Increased Capacity in Ecosystem research in the Western Indian Ocean
C-RISe – Coastal Risk Information Service
EO4SD – Earth Observation for Sustainable Development: Marine and Coastal Resources
Commonwealth Marine Economies Programme

Publications

Authors

Apine, Elina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5423-8792; Payo Payo, Marta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3224-8620; Becker, Amani; Meschini, Marta; Matsoukis, Constantinos; Kaffashi, Sara. 2026 Navigating interdisciplinary coastal research in the UK: Challenges and solutions from an early career perspective. Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures, 4. 10.1017/cft.2025.10022

Publication year

2026

Publication type

Article

Authors

Becker, Amani; Bercovici, Sarah K.; Choo, Jenny; Fakhrurrozi, Fakhrurrozi; Fong, Annabelle; Fowell, Sara E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9835-4725; Hossain, Emmy; Hussein, Muhammad Ali Syed; Jamilah, Maryam; Mujahid, Aazani; Müller, Moritz; Ooi, Jillian Lean Sim; Quiros, T. E. Angela L.; Richard, Florina; Saleh, Ejria; Chee, Su Yin; Then, Amy Yee-Hui; Ticman, Kristina; Wee, Julia Lih Suan; Wong, Changi; Affendi, Yang Amri; Yap, Tzuen Kiat; Yoshikai, Masaya; Yusri, Safran; Evans, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0569-7057. 2025 Blue carbon management integrating socioeconomic and environmental interconnectivity in Southeast Asia: an urgent climate priority. Frontiers in Marine Science, 12. 10.3389/fmars.2025.1642387

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Jamilah, Maryam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1782-2713; Becker, Amani ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-5120; Lee, Soon Loong; Quiros, T.E. Angela L.; Chee, Su Yin; Evans, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0569-7057; Tan, Yu Yang; Ti, Lian Lin; Pishal, Irsyad; Then, Amy Yee Hui. 2025 Socioeconomic impacts linked to land use and land use changes affecting blue carbon ecosystems in Southeast Asia: A systematic map. Ocean & Coastal Management, 267, 107643. 1, pp. 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107643

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Publication year

2023

Publication type

Article

Authors

Brown, Jennifer M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-4651; Hibbert, Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2529-0190; Bricheno, Lucy M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-9366; Bradshaw, Elizabeth; Becker, Amani E.. 2022 Tides at a coast. In: A Journey Through Tides. Elsevier, 247-281.

Publication year

2022

Publication type

Book section

Authors

Jacobs, Z.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-0699; Yool, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-2776; Jebri, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7048-0068; Srokosz, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7347-7411; van Gennip, S.; Kelly, S.J.; Roberts, M.; Sauer, W.; Queirós, A.M.; Osuka, K.E.; Samoilys, M.; Becker, A.E.; Popova, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2012-708X. 2021 Key climate change stressors of marine ecosystems along the path of the east african coastal current. Ocean & Coastal Management, 208, 105627. 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105627

Publication year

2021

Publication type

Article

Authors

Becker, Amani; Brown, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-4651; Bricheno, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-9366; Wolf, Judith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-8221. 2020 Guidance note on the application of coastal monitoring for small island developing states : Part of the NOC-led project “Climate Change Impact Assessment: Ocean Modelling and Monitoring for the Caribbean CME states”, 2017-2020; under the Commonwealth Marine Economies (CME) Programme in the Caribbean. Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 40pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, 74)

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Wolf, Judith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4129-8221; Becker, Amani; Bricheno, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4751-9366; Brown, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-4651; Byrne, David; De Dominicis, Michela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0544-7939; Phillips, Benjamin. 2020 Guidance note on the application of coastal modelling for small island developing states. Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 47pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, 73)

Publication year

2020

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Becker, Amani E.; Copplestone, David. 2019 Cadmium uptake from sediment by Cylindrotheca closterium and the effect of diatom presence on partitioning of cadmium between sediment and water: A laboratory study. Limnology and Oceanography, 64 (6). 2550-2568. 10.1002/lno.11204

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Article

Authors

Phillips, Benjamin; Brown, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-4651; Becker, Amani; Plater, Andrew. 2019 Current and future vulnerability of Argyle International Airport to combined river & coastal flooding. Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 65pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, 68)

Publication year

2019

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Prime, Thomas; Morrissey, Karen; Becker, Amani. 2017 Ecosystems services valuation: Loss of wetland due to climate change and creation of wetland under proposed "sandscaping" coastal defence schemes. National Oceanography Centre, University of Liverpool, 26pp. (Unpublished)

Publication year

2017

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Brown, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-4651; Becker, A.i; Prime, T.; Burgess, J.; Sams, C.. 2017 Jersey Shoreline Climate Resilient Management Plan. Version 1: Current practices and development guidance (Commercial in Confidence). Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 113pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, 61) (Unpublished)

Publication year

2017

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Brown, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-4651; Becker, A.i; Prime, T.; Burgess, J.; Sams, C.. 2017 Literature review of current Jersey coastal management documents and UK strategies in support of a Climate Resilient Shoreline Management Plan (Commercial in Confidence). Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, 85pp. (National Oceanography Centre Research and Consultancy Report, 60) (Unpublished)

Publication year

2017

Publication type

Monograph

Dr Amani Becker

Biography

Projects

Publications

Navigating interdisciplinary coastal research in the UK: Challenges and solutions from an early career perspective

Blue carbon management integrating socioeconomic and environmental interconnectivity in Southeast Asia: an urgent climate priority

Socioeconomic impacts linked to land use and land use changes affecting blue carbon ecosystems in Southeast Asia: A systematic map

Socio-oceanography: an opportunity to integrate marine social and natural sciences

Tides at a coast

Key climate change stressors of marine ecosystems along the path of the east african coastal current

Guidance note on the application of coastal monitoring for small island developing states : Part of the NOC-led project “Climate Change Impact Assessment: Ocean Modelling and Monitoring for the Caribbean CME states”, 2017-2020; under the Commonwealth Mari

Guidance note on the application of coastal modelling for small island developing states

Cadmium uptake from sediment by Cylindrotheca closterium and the effect of diatom presence on partitioning of cadmium between sediment and water: A laboratory study

Current and future vulnerability of Argyle International Airport to combined river & coastal flooding

Ecosystems services valuation: Loss of wetland due to climate change and creation of wetland under proposed "sandscaping" coastal defence schemes

Jersey Shoreline Climate Resilient Management Plan. Version 1: Current practices and development guidance (Commercial in Confidence)

Literature review of current Jersey coastal management documents and UK strategies in support of a Climate Resilient Shoreline Management Plan (Commercial in Confidence)