Victorian Marine Science Consortium
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Research by staff and postgraduate students includes the following projects and covers 9 major areas :
Emi Ab Rahim : Aspects of genetics of blue mussels, Mytilus species in Australia (PhD)
Amanda Pettersen : Aspects on larval nutrition and feeding in mussels (Hons.)
Dr Craig Sherman: Aspects on larval nutrition and feeding in mussels (Research)
Kim Weston: Factors affecting mussel growth and survival during settlement (Hons.)
Kate Baker : Investigation on rocky intertidal shores : enrichment and role of grazers (Hons.)
Elisa Bone : Colony fragmentation and colonial integration in encrusting bryozoans (PhD)
Joanna Browne : Investigating the gelatinous zooplankton and their symbionts (PhD)
Nicole Filby : Whistle production in free ranging bottlenose dolphins in response to vessel traffic (PhD)
John Ford : Meta population dynamics in temperate reef fish (PhD)
Andrew Jacob : Benthic macrofauna of the Maribyrnong River (Hons.)
Amanda Franklin: Investigating the costs of mating in dumpling squid (Masters)
Christian Jung: Anthropogenic effects on shallow rocky reef fish fauna in Port Phillip Bay (PhD)
Jessica Kerrigan : Seagrass and macrofauna research within Lake Connewarre (Hons.)
Prue McKenzie : Dispersal of Hormosira banksii (Neptune's Necklace) (PhD)
Allyson O'Brien: Top-down versus bottom-up control of processes that structure habitats in Victorian coastal waters (PhD)
Michael Sams : Predation on ascidian recruits (Hons.)
Jessica Smith: Population connectivity in Port Phillip Bay : validating a transgenerational marking process using the Southern Hulafish, Trachinops caudimaculatus (PhD)
Zoe Squires: Assessing the costs and benefits of polyandry in a native squid (PhD)
Richard Stafford-Bell : Behavioural studies of fur seals at Chinaman's Hat in relation to changes in ambient noise (Hons.)
Anna Syme : The systematics and biogeography of the southern Australian Cylindroleberididae Crustacea:Ostracoda (PhD)
Thelma Vlamis: The influence of ciliate biofilms on marine invertebrate settlement. Do ciliates influence larvae settlement? And what factors influence larvae settlement? (Hons.)
Benjamin Wegener : Reproductive behaviour in Dumpling squid (PhD)
Emma Broughton : Fish larval habitat preference (Hons.)
Kane Blackman : Fish larval research (Hons.)
Justin Bell : Assessing the ecological risk faced by Australian holocephalans (chimaeras) and the white-finned swell shark under current fishing practice (PhD)
Dr Catherine Boisvert : Development of the spine and pelvic girdle of Callorhinchus milii
Matias Braccini : Reproduction, ageing, morphology and diet of dogfish and sevengill sharks (PhD)
Jonathan Daly : Cryopreservation of semen collected from sparsely spotted Stingarees (PhD)
Lorenz Frick : Capture stress physiology and post-release fate of small Australian elasmobranchs (PhD)
Corey Green : Age, growth and population dynamics of squid, Notodarus gouldi (PhD)
Daniel Grixti : Estimating and improving recreationally caught and released fish (PhD)
Paul Hamer : Migratory dynamics and recruitment of snapper in Victorian waters (PhD)
Fatemeh Hazeribaghdadabad: Assessing the effect of different CO2 levels on abalone and its calcification process and growth rates (PhD)
Charlie Huveneers : The biology of the spotted and ornate wobbegongs (PhD)
Matthew Heard: Post-release stress physiology of stingarees following trawl capture (Hons.)
Jodie Kemp : Population and trophic dynamics of red cod, Psuedophycis bachus : an assessment to provide information for the monitoring of implicated predator species (PhD)
Zac Lewis : Assessing the effect of recreational harvest on Venus Bay pipi population (Hons.)
Peter Macreadie : The importance of edge effects in determining the value of seagrass landscapes as fish nurseries (PhD)
Camila Leite Martins : Capture stress and post-release survival of gummy shark and southern fiddler ray (PhD)
Kade Mills: Studying the processes and patterns of colonisation of artificial reefs by fish (PhD)
Hannah Murphy : Effects of seagrass fragmentation on benthic invertebrates (Hons.)
Hannah Murphy : Investigating larval ecology and recruitment of snapper in Port Phillip Bay (PhD)
Amy Newman : Growth rate in snapper larvae (Hons.)
Tawyna Patrick : Feeding behaviour of stingarees (Hons.)
David Phillips : The biology and ecology of the the large batoid fish: Myliobatis australis, Dasyatis thetdis and Dasyatis brevicuidata (PhD)
Calvin Quick : Tagging of gummy sharks in Swan Bay (Hons.)
Matt Reardon : Uterine accommodations for gestation and ecological risk assessment in the southern fiddler ray (PhD)
Bastien Rochowski : Deep sea shark biology (PhD)
David Semmens : Larval experience and postmetamorphic performance in the Common Galaxias (PhD)
Tim Smith : The importance of edge effects in determining the value of seagrass landscapes as fish nurseries (PhD)
Javier Tovar-Avila : Reproduction, ageing, morphology & diet of Port Jackson sharks and angel sharks (PhD)
Fabian Trinnie : Stingaree biology and management (PhD)
Lauren Veale : Age, growth and reproduction of Ribaldo (Hons.)
Fiona Warry : Assessing piscivorous fish assemblages at varying locations within the seagrass habitat matrix
Joel Williams : Linking freshwater flows, salt wedge dynamics and fisheries productivity (PhD)
Kathryn Hassell : Investigation of the effects of environmental stressors on growth and reproduction in Black Bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri, using physiological indicators (PhD)
Alexis Marshall : Identifying the peptide relaxin# and its receptor GPCR135 in the reproductive tract of the Chondrichthyan Heterodontus (Hons.)
Hintsa Mateos : Investigation of effects of food incorporated with Omega 3 polyunsaturated on cultured abalones (PhD)
Meagan Dewar : Microflora of Little penguins at St Kilda breakwater (Hons.) Poster
Meagan Dewar : Gastrointestinal microflora in penguins: phylogenetic and dietary relationships (PhD)
Annett Finger : Trace metals in little penguins (PhD)
Dr John Green : Gannet physiology (Post-doc.)
Tanya Pyk : Individual quality in Australasian gannets : implications for seabird conservation and management (PhD)
Megan Underwood : The breeding biology of the white-faced storm petrel, Pelagodroma marina, in Victoria (PhD)
Daniel Weller : Inter-colony movements of the crested tern, Sterna bergii, as a result of food resource quality and availability (Hons.)
Carly Wishart : Diurnal activity budgets and nest defence behaviour in Australasian Gannets, Morus serrator, breeding at Pope’s Eye, Victoria (Hons.)
Ralph Roob : An investigation of marine habitats and the underlying geomorphology associated with them (PhD)
Ryan Blackney : Toxicity testing on marine organisms (Hons.)
Warren Davies : Effects of a blue-green algae and its toxin on zooplankton (PhD)
Emma Ferguson: Effect of pollutant exposure on black bream juveniles (Masters)
Jacquelle Gorski : Effects of anthropogenic pollutants on selected life stages of abalone (PhD)
Jackie Myers : Factors affecting the germination, growth and toxicity of selected Dinoflagellates and Cyanobacteria in the Gippsland Lakes (PhD)
Jackie Myers : Nodularin toxins in seafood (Post-Doc)
Lisa Toogood : Ecophysiology of black bream in the Gippsland Lakes (PhD)
Daniel Dias : Investigation into chemistry & biological activity of terrestrial fungi & marine natural products (PhD)
Rachael Bathgate : Connectivity in marine invertebrate populations and the role of marine protected areas (PhD)
Malcolm Lindsay : Larval recruitment patterns in Victoria’s marine reserves (PhD)
Isla Fitridge : The ecology of an invasive hydroid, Tubularia crocea, in Port Phillip Bay (PhD). Poster
Travis Baulch : Evolutionary potential of the northern Pacific seastar (PhD)
Carlie Alexander : An investigation into the introduced species in Swan Bay, Victoria (Masters)