Team
My research focuses on understanding how animals respond to challenges from their environments and from human activity and then using this knowledge to inform better conservation and management.
The focus of my PhD research is to determine prey species abundance and availability within northwest Bass Strait, using an iconic top predator- the little penguin.
I am examining maternal physiology and experimentally manipulating egg incubation environments for several model reptilian species of crocodilians, turtles and squamates.
My PhD focuses on finding the feeding hotspots of an iconic endemic Australian top-predator, the little penguin (Eudyptula minor) in the Bass Strait.
My PhD is investigating the role of nest moisture in determining primary sex ratios and hatchling performance, with a focus on the ramifications for sex-specific hatchling recruitment.
The focus of my PhD is determine the microbiome of sea turtles and examine how the microbial community influences the fitness of its host.
Licia’s PhD aims to understand the effects that fisheries-capture stress causes to Chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and chimaeras), which are among the most vulnerable and threatened fishes,
Ross works on the penguin research project as a Research Assistant, based on Phillip Island.
My research project focuses on the environmental cues used by sea turtle hatchlings to find their way to the open ocean after emerging from their nests on the beach.
Co-supervised by Dr Andre Chiaradia, Phillip Island Nature Park
I’m monitoring the St Kilda colony of penguins, and will attach GPS loggers and video cameras to the birds during their breeding season. I will use these to determine the influence of severe weather upon their foraging behaviour and success. Thank you to everyone who supported this project by donating at experiment.com!
Heavy metals are significant environmental contaminants of wetlands. My honours research project is about assessing the developmental and behavioural effects of zinc contamination upon tadpoles of the native southern brown tree frog (Litoria ewingii).