Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr Will Figueira (from Duke Univ. Marine Laboratories) “Metapopulation modeling of marine fisheries in relation to marine protected areas and vagrant coral reef fishes”

Dr Pete Biro (from University of Alberta) “Behavioural syndromes in freshwater and marine fishes”

Graduate Students

PhD

• Dr Tom Trnski 1996-2003: Estuarine influx of larval fishes. (APA Industry funded)
• Matthew Lockett 1997-2007 (submitted):Ecology of introduced gobiid fishes in the Sydney Region. (Faculty of Science Scholarship)
• Judy Upston 1997-2006: Effects of airport runway extensio on fish and invertebrate recruitment in Botany Bay, NSW. (Federal Airports funding)
• Dr Harry Gorfine 2003-2005 (PhD by Publication): Wild abalone ecology and management in Southern Australia.
• Dr Veronica Silberschneider 1999-2004: Recruitment ecology of longfinned eels. (APA scholarship)
• Dr Andrew West 1999-2004: Early life history of billfishes in Kona, Hawaii. (APA scholarship)
• Dr Rachel Powell 2001- 2006: Sexual aggregation behaviour in the Great White Shark.
• Dr Andrew Stauber 2001-2006: Habitat fragmentation and disturbance in Hawkesbury sandstone inhabiting frogs Pseudophryne australis and Heleioporus australiacus. (ARC SPIRT funded)
• Anna Wressnig 2002-2006:
  Feeding and nutrient-dynamics of leatherjacket fishes in coastal lakes of NSW. (UTS IPRS funded)
• Ralph Alquezar 2002– 2007 (submitted): Heavy metal pollution and physiology of estuarine toadfishes in NSW. (APA scholarship)
• Jaime Sanchez-Camara (MSc 2003-2005, PhD 2005-present with U. Barcelona): Ecology and reproduction in the weedy seadragon in Sydney.
• Don Kobayashi 2004-present: (with US National Marine Fisheries Service) Hydrodynamic modeling of marine fish dispersal and recruitment in the Hawaiian Islands.
• Emily Buckle 2005-present: The biology, ecology and reproductive behaviour of black cod (Epinephelus daemelii), a vulnerable reef fish in New South Wales. (ARC Linkage scholarship with NSW Dept. Of Primary Industry)
• Marcus Gregson 2005-present: (Part-time) Latitudinal differences in diet and behaviour of butterflyfish species in Eastern Australia.
• Thea Brolund 2005-present: Latitudinal variation in physiology of 2 species of damselfishes on the Great Barrier Reef. (Danish scholarship and IPRS)
• Paul York 2005-present: Trophic cascades in Australian seagrass beds: From nutrients to fish. (APA scholarship)

MSc

• Chris Walsh 2001-2004: Reproductive ecology of longfinned eels in SE Australia
• Kerryn Parkinson 1999–2005: (part-time) Ecology of pipefishes.
• Melanie Lewis 2005-present: Demography and behaviour of bluefish (Girella cyanea) at Lord Howe Island.

Honours

• 10 past Honours students - reef fish ecology, aquaculture