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.
Co-supervised by Dr Andre Chiaradia, Phillip Island Nature Park
Environmental variation has a significant impact on the marine ecosystem. My honours project investigates how changes in thermocline depth (the transition from warm surface water to cool deeper water) influences the foraging and breeding success of a diving top predator, the little penguin (Eudyptula minor). I will be working in the Penguin colony at Phillip Island over the 2017-18 breeding season.