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POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION

PhD:

Current:

Gwen Cadiou  Linking estuarine and marine fish movements to management of marine areas

Hayden Beck Temperate range shifts in tropical marine fishes: role of habitat and local biology

Cian Foster-Thorpe  - Ontogenetic patterns in movement of estuarine fishes  

Graduated

2012: Ash Fowler " The suitability of artificial reefs as fish habitat"

2010  Paul York.  Top-down vs. bottom-up control of seagrass systems in Sydney estuaries

2010 (with Univ. Barcelona): Jaime Sanchez-Camara.  Behaviour and reproductive ecology of weedy seadragons

2009:  Matthew Lockett:  Ecology and impacts of introduced gobiid fishes in Sydney Harbour and Port Phillip Bay (Faculty of Science Scholarship)

2009: Brolund PhD,

2009: Don Kobayashi (US National Marine Fisheries Service)  Modelling transport of pelagic fishes in the Hawaiian Islands Kobayashi, PhD

2007: Anna Wressnig (International Student Scholarship, Austria).  Grazing dynamics of fishes in estuarine lakes of New South Wales.

2006: Ralph Alquezar.  Heavy metal uptake in estuarine toadfishes: fitness effects (partner: ANSTO)

2006:  Dr. Rachel Powell.  Sex segregation and bait conditioning in the Great White shark.  (Partner: Rodney Fox shark expeditions, PADI funding)

2006: Dr. Andrew Stauber: Population demography and genetics of 2 threatened frog species in Sydney, NSW ( ARC Linkage grant with NSW NPWS, State Forests, Transgrid, AGL)

2006: Dr. Judy Upston.  Recruitment of fishes and invertebrates in Botany Bay with particular reference to the airport runway extensions (Federal Airports funding)

2005:  Dr. Veronica Silberschneider:  Recruitment ecology of longfinned eels (APA scholarship. FRDC, NSW Fisheries partner)

2005:  Dr. Andrew West:  Early life history of billfishes in Kona, Hawaii (APA              scholarship, NOAA, NMFS (USA) partners)

2004: Dr. Harry Gorfine.  Biology and management of Victorian abalone stocks (Chief Abalone biologist, Victorian Fisheries)

2003:  Dr. Tom Trnski: Estuarine influx of larval fishes (APA Industry funded)  Research biologist, Australian Museum

2001: Dr. Geoff Macfarlane.  Bioindicators of estuarine health.  Funding: Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment Management Trust, Cowan Creek     Catchment Management Committee, UTS Industry-Link (present position: tenured   Lecturer, University of Newcastle).

                 

MSc: 

Current

Maggie Tran (with Geosciences Australia)    Rapid assessment of estuarine benthic cover 

Adrian Jeloudev  Long term trends in separfisher catches to help understand changes in coastal marine fishes 

Graduated

2012 Melanie Lewis.  Demography and feeding of bluefish at Lord Howe Island

2003 (part time):  Kerryn Parkinson.  Ecology of pipefishes.

2002 (with Univ. Barcelona): Jaime Sanchez-Camara.  Behaviour and reproductive ecology of weedy seadragons

2003:  Chris Walsh, MSc. Reproductive ecology of the longfinned eel (NSW Fisheries)
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