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.
My postdoc is focused on recreational fishers interactions with sharks in Victoria. I also continue to work on sea turtle reproduction and conservation around the world.
On a collaborative project between Monash University and Phillip Island Nature Parks, I am using these data to explore different spatial conservation prioritisation scenarios that allow protecting key little penguins’ foraging areas, while minimizing conflicts with human uses that occur in those places.
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.
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.
Seabird breeding seasons are affected by many factors including food supply, climate and environmental variation. For my Honours Project, I will be looking at the timing of the start of the breeding season of Little Penguins and how it has changed over time. I will allude to potential reasons a change in timing may be occurring. Furthermore, I will be investigating the relationship between penguin body condition and subsequent breeding success, which likely relates to foraging opportunities and conditions. This will be undertaken in collaboration with Phillip Island Nature Park and I will be co-supervised by Dr Andre Chiaradia.