Past staff and students

 

Brayden Cockerell (Research Coordinator). Marine ecology, green gravel restoration, aquarium and field operations.

 

Celina Burkholz (PhD, Forrest Scholar). Intraspecific variation in seaweed stress tolerance and performance thresholds..

 

Jorgia Blanks (MSc). Responses of mobile invertebrates to warming and marine heatwaves.

 

Juan David Silva Macias (MSc). Spatial analysis of marine fish and invertebrate biodiversity in kelp forests.

 

Jane Edgeloe (PhD). Population genomics and ecological response to climatic-stressors in a habitat-forming foundation seaweed species

 

Rowen Monks (GecoKelp MSc). Population connectivity and bottlenecks for Laminaria hyperborea in Norway.

 

Molly Mai (MSc). Heat stress responses of different lineages of E. radiata sporophytes.

Emma Buch (MSc). Heritability of temperature tolerance in kelp. 

Antoine Minne (PhD, 2024).Kelp genomics and climate change.

 

 

 

 

Dr Georgina Wood (Postdoc, 2022-24).

Restoration ecology and genomics.

 

 

Dr Rita Franco-Santos (CERC Fellow, 2022-24).

Blue carbon. 

 

Louise Richardson (Masters of Ocean Leadership, 2023).

The effects of nitrogen on thermal tolerance of a marine foundation kelp species: Ecklonia radiata.

 

Dr Cristina Piñeiro Corbeira (Visiting Postdoc, 2022-23).

Herbivory and tropicalisation.

 

Mason Sullivan (Research Assistant & Lab Coordinator, 2020-2023).

 

 

 

 

Defne Sahin (PhD, 2023)

Environmental and ecological drivers of performance and distribution of high latitude corals.

 

Meg Proctor (Masters, 2022)

Growth of high latitude corals under different environmental conditions.

 

Nahlah Alsuwaiyan (PhD, 2022)

Seaweed reproduction in a warming ocean.

 

 

 

Sofie Vranken (PhD, 2022)

Genetic patterns of Australian seaweed forests in changing environments.

 

 

 

Heather Denham (Research Assistant & Lab Manager, 2018-2022).

 

 

 

Nestor Bosch (PhD, 2022)

Linking patterns of reef fish community change to ecological functions in the Anthropocene.

 

 

 

Albert Pessarrodona (PhD, 2021)

Turf algae as emergent drivers of ecological function in shallow reefs.

 

 

 

Jürgen Valckenaere (Masters, 2021)

Barriers to upscaling green gravel kelp forest restoration.

 

 

 

Salvador Zarco-Perello (PhD, 2021)

Persistence of tropical herbivorous fish in temperate ecosystems.

 

 

 

 

Sahira Bell (PhD, 2021) Regime shifts and tropicalisation of temperate reefs.

 

 

Yannick Mulders (PhD, 2021)

Changes in temperate seaweed communities and the associated subtidal reef ecosystem.

 

 

 

Claude Spencer (Masters, 2019)

Functionality of tropical herbivores in tropicalised temperate reefs.

 

 

 

Chenae Tuckett (PhD, 2019)

Climate variation and population ecology of high latitude corals.

 

 

 

 

Sandra Straub (PhD, 2019)

Effects of marine heatwaves on canopy forming seaweeds and marine forests.

 

 

 

Hanson Zu (Masters, 2018)

The role of urchins in mediating transformation and transport of  kelp detritus.

 

Felipe Ribeiro (visiting PhD, 2017/18)

Chemical interactions in shifting reef environments.

 

 

 

Molly Moustaka (Research Assistant, 2017). 

 

 

 

 

 

Tiffany Simpson

(PhD, 2017)

Biodiversity, biosecurity and management of sessile invertebrate assemblages in Western Australia.

 

 

 

 

Yu (Betty) Bi (Masters, 2017)

Seaweeds as habitat for animals.

 

 

 

 

Tropicalization in Western Australia: effects of changing light and temperature regimes on Western Australian corals.

 

 

 

 

Tessa Ramshaw (Honours, 2017) Response of the coral Plesiastrea versipora to simulated marine heatwaves.

  

 

 

 Robert Hemsworth (Masters, 2016)

Distribution and abundance of mobile invertebrates in southwestern Australia.

 

 

 

 

Salvador Zarco (Masters, 2016)

Recent changes in abundance and herbivory of rabbit fish in southwestern Australia.

 

 

 

Shannon Dee (Honours, 2016)

Reproductive phenology of high latitude corals. 

 

 

 

 

Melissa Varty (Honours, 2016)

Temperature tolerance and lethal limits of WA seaweeds.

 

 

 

 

 

Emily Gates (Research Assistant, 2013-16)

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Thibaut de Bettignies (Postdoc, 2013-15)

Ecology and ecophysiology of temperate reef organisms

 

 

 

 

 

Mikaela Andrews (Honours, 2015)

Temperature and reproductive phenology of seaweeds

 

 

 

Eileen Lee (Honours, 2015)

Diets of tropical fishes in temperate habitats

 

 

 

Scott Bennett (PhD, 2015) Ecological drivers of seaweed canopy resilience along a latitudinal climate gradient

 

 

 

 

Mariah Lumley (Honours, 2015)

Ageing and growth rates of of high-latitude corals

 

 

 

 

Tomasz Pedlow (Masters, 2014)

Feeding ecology or purple urchins

 

 

 

 

 

Thibaut de Bettignies (PhD, 2013)

Sources and supply of kelp detritus: quantifying mechanisms of production

 

 

 

 

Margie Mohring (PhD, 2013)

Effect of environment on reproduction and early performance of Ecklonia radiata

 

 

 

 

Chenae Tuckett (Honours, 2013)

Recent changes in high-latitude coral communities in Western Australia

 

 

 

 

Stefan Andrews (Honours, 2013)

Reproductive seasonality and early life temperature sensitivity of the seaweed Scytothalia dorycarpa (Phaeophyceae, Fucales)

 

 

 

Arthur Lo (Coursework Masters, 2012)

Seasonal and spatial variation in abundance and species richness of seaweed associated mobile epifauna in Ningaloo, Western Australia

 

 

 

Melissa White, (Honours, 2006)

Grazing pressure by herbivorous gastropods on macroalgae in southwestern Australian kelp forests