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Student Research

Opportunities to Study at TAFI

You can join the TAFI team. We are looking for young, talented and enthusiastic researchers. Click here for more information.

Students Currently at TAFI

TAFI supports research higher degree students enrolled through the University of Tasmania in PhD, Masters or Honours studies.

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Adam Barnett
PhD Title: Movement patterns, home ranges and predator-prey interactions of seven gill sharks Notorynchus cepedianus
Supervisors:
Dr Jayson Semmens (TAFI)
Dr Alistair Hobday (UTAS)
Dr John Stevens (CSIRO)


Amelia Fowles
PhD Title: Relationship of Human Impacts on reef and sessile invertebrate communities
Supervisors:
Dr Graham Edgar (TAFI)
Dr Rick Stuart-Smith (TAFI)
Dr Nicole Hill (TAFI)
Prof Jamie Kirkpatrick (School of Geography and Environmental Studies, UTas)

Cass Hunter
PhD Title: Population dynamics, assessment, and interspecific relationships of Tasmanian rock lobster
Supervisors:
Assoc. Prof Malcolm Haddon (CSIRO)
Leon Barmuta (School of Zoology, UTas)
Keith Sainsbury (TAFI)


Hugh Jones
PhD Title:  Multiple lines of evidence of mercury bioaccumulation in key Derwent Estuary foodwebs
Supervisors:
Dr Catriona Macleod (TAFI)
Dr Kerrie Swadling (TAFI)
Dr Ed Butler (CSIRO)


Jan Seiler
PhD Title: Non-extractive monitoring of biodiversity on temperate Australian deepwater reefs: Using advanced vision-processing techniques to develop and test reliable biodiversity metrics
Supervisors:
Dr Neville Barrett - TAFI
Dr Alan Williams - CSIRO CMAR
Dr Neil Holbrook - UTas
Dr Richard Coleman - Australian Research Council


Jaime McAllister
PhD Title: Investigating the determinants of population structuring in the temperate reef fish Cheilodactylus Spectabilis
Supervisors:
Dr Jeremy Lyle (TAFI)
Dr. Jayson Semmens (TAFI)
Prof Colin Buxton (TAFI)
Starts PhD: 21 July 2010

Jason Beard
Masters Project Title: The Effects of Catchment Land Use on the Benthic Ecology of Tasmanian Estuaries – Using Macroinvertebrates as Bio Indicators
Supervisors:
Dr Jeff Ross (TAFI)
Dr. John Gibson (TAFI)
Assoc. Prof. Natalie Moltschaniwskyj (NCMCRS)
Dr. Christine Crawford (TAFI)


Jennifer Hochmuth
PhD Title: Disentangling Maternal Effects and Climate Change in the southern rock lobster Jasus edwarsdii
Supervisors:
Dr Bridget Green (TAFI)
Dr. Caleb Gardner (TAFI)
Assoc. Prof. Tom Trull (IMAS)
Assoc. Prof. Natalie Moltschaniwskyj (NCMCRS)


Julian Harrington
PhD Title: Distribution of a patchily distributed marine organism: A scallop case study
Supervisors:
Assoc. Prof. Malcom Haddon (CSIRO)
Dr Jayson Semmens (TAFI)


Katell Hamon
PhD Title: Bio-economic impact assessment of changes in the regulation of access to fisheries: The case of Individual Transferable Quotas in Australian coastal fisheries
Supervisors:
Dr Stewart Frusher (TAFI)
Prof Craig Johnson (TAFI)
Dr Richard Little (CSIRO)
Prof Jean-Pierre Boude (Agrocampus Rennes)
Dr Olivier Thebaud (Ifremer Brest)
Dr Jean-Christophe Soulie (CIRAD)


Killian Stehfest
PhD Title: Estimating animal abundance remotely in marine systems
Supervisors:
Stewart Frusher (TAFI)
Jayson Semmens, (TAFI)
Russell Babcock (CSIRO)


Matthew Cameron
PhD Title: Relationships between fish populations and the physical structure of rocky reefs, including interaction with fishing pressure inside and outside marine protected areas
Supervisors:
Dr. Craig Johnson (TAFI)
Dr. Neville Barrett (TAFI)
Dr. Graham Edgar (TAFI)
Dr. Peter Last (CSIRO)


Melanie Andrews
PhD Title: Parasites of the striped trumpeter Latris lineata
Supervisors:
Assoc. Prof. Barbara Nowak (NCMCRS)
Assoc. Prof. Stephen Battaglene (TAFI)


Miles Lawler
PhD Title: Development and application of acoustic and video assessment in seabed mapping
Supervisors:
Dr Jon Osborne (Geog)
Dr Alan Jordan (NSW DEH)
Mr Rudy Kloser (CSIRO)


Tania Mendo
PhD Title: Understanding settlement and post-settlement dynamics of scallops in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania
Supervisors:
Dr Jeremy Lyle (TAFI)
Dr Jayson Semmens (TAFI)
Assoc. Prof. Natalie Moltschaniwskyj (NCMCRS)
Dr Sean Tracey (TAFI)


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Tim Alexander
PhD Title: Responses of mobile invertebrates to reef habitat structure and fishing in temperate marine protected areas
Supervisors:
Dr Graham Edgar (TAFI)
Prof Craig Johnson (TAFI)
Dr Neville Barrett (TAFI)
Assoc Prof Malcolm Haddon (CSIRO)
Russell Babcock


imageTobias Probst
PhD Title: Habitat dynamics of the NZ screwshell Maoricolpus roseus
Supervisors:
Dr Christine Crawford (TAFI)
Prof Craig Johnson (TAFI)
Dr Nic Bax (CSIRO)
Dr Alastair Hirst (DPIV)


Mark Jensen
PhD Title: Aspects of Hatchery Rearing of Rock Lobsters with an Emphasis on Understanding the Physiological Changes During Larval Development
Supervisors:
Prof Chris Carter (TAFI)
Dr. Quinn Fitzgibbon (TAFI)
Dr. Louise Ward (NCMCRS)


Fiona Scott
PhD Title: The conservation significance of macroalgae and their role in marine protected area planning
Supervisors:
Dr. Graham Edgar (TAFI)
Dr. Neville Barrett (TAFI)
Prof Jamie Kirkpatrick (School of Geography and Environmental Studies, UTas)


Matthew Campbell-Ellis
PhD Title: Overlap in Resource Use Between Commercial and Recreational Rock Lobster Fishers in Tasmania
Supervisors:
Dr. Jeremy Lyle (TAFI)
Dr. Caleb Gardner (TAFI)
Dr. Bridget Green (TAFI)


Reham Negm
PhD Title: Dietary Intake and its Relation to the Skeletal Development in Early Larval Stages of Striped Trumpeter with an Emphasis on Vitamin A
Supervisors:
Dr. Jennifer Cobcroft (TAFI)
Dr. Stephen Battaglene (TAFI)
Assoc. Prof Barbara Nowak (NCMCRS)


Samantha Castle
PhD Title: The implications of environmental change on the relative importance of salps and krill in the Storm Bay ecosystem
Supervisors:
Dr. Kerrie Swadling (TAFI)
Dr. Christine Crawford (TAFI)


Stephen McGowen
PhD Title: Response of plankton communities to changes in land use and catchment runoff in Tasmanian estuaries
Supervisors:
Dr Christine Crawford (TAFI)
Dr Jeff Ross (TAFI)
Dr John Gibson (TAFI)
Dr Kerrie Swadling (TAFI)
Dr Troy Gaston (NCMCRS)


Timothy Emery
PhD Title: Assessing the costs and benefits of changing fishing practices in the Southern Rock Lobster fishery
Supervisors:
Dr Bridget Green (TAFI)
Dr Caleb Gardiner (TAFI)
Professor John Tisdell (UTAS)

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