Professor Thomas Wernberg
(Wise guy). A little bit about everything.
Dr Karen Filbee-Dexter (ARC DECRA Fellow). Kelp ecology. Arctic. Blue carbon. Sea urchins.
Dr Georgina Wood (postdoc). Restoration ecology and genomics.
Dr Albert Pessarrodona (postdoc). Seaweeds and blue carbon ecology.
Dr Mirjam van der Mheen (postdoc). Coastal oceanography and the transport of propagules and detritus. Starting July 2022.
Dr Sam Starko (Forrest Fellow). Kelp ecology and transcriptomics. Starting November 2022.
Mason Sullivan (Lab manager). MacGyver.
Dani Bandt (Administrative Assistant).
Nahlah Alsuwaiyan (PhD). Seaweed reproduction in a warming ocean.
Sofie Vranken (PhD). Genetic patterns of Australian seaweed forests in changing environments.
Defne Sahin (PhD). Environmental and ecological drivers of performance and distribution of high latitude corals.
Antoine Minne (PhD). Kelp genomics and climate change.
Celina Burkholz (PhD). Intraspecific variation in seaweed stress tolerance and performance thresholds.
Jane Edgeloe (PhD). Population genomics and ecological response to climatic-stressors in a habitat-forming foundation seaweed species.
Taylor Simpkins (PhD). Blue carbon sequestration from Australian kelp forests.
Jürgen Valckenaere (PhD). Future-proofing marine restoration and greening grey infrastructure.
Luka Wright (PhD) Microbial remineralisation of kelp detritus.
Océane Attlan (PhD) Starting August 2022.
Grace Edwards (PhD) Starting August 2022.
Meg Proctor (Masters). Growth of high latitude corals under different environmental conditions.
Wernberg Lab 