We are biologists.
We are dedicated to understanding and improving how our world works.
Lab Members
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                      Dr Simon Hart
Group Leader & Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Biology
Project: Chasing Tails.
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                      Dr Wilma Blaser-Hart
Research Fellow
Project: Chocolate, trees, and biodiversity: cocoa agroforestry and wildlife conservation in the Afrotropics.
Plus so much more.
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                      Harrah Friedlander
PhD student
Project: The effects of temperature fluctuations - and heatwaves - on eco-evolutionary dynamics.
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                      Tim Temizyürek
PhD student
Project: How does evolution mediate the effects of resource fluctuations on the dynamics and stability of ecological communities?
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                      Jordan Drochmann
PhD student
Project: Higher-order interactions as eco-evolutionary dynamics.
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                      Justine Ohlrich
PhD student
Project: Species interactions in freshwater ecosystems in the context of changing disturbance regimes.
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                      Hannah Rigney
PhD student
Project: Chocolate, trees, and biodiversity: cocoa agroforestry and wildlife conservation in the Afrotropics.
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                      Boris Zec
Former BSc Honours student. Honours First Class, Top of Year. Current Lab Research Assistant.
Project: The effects of phenotypic plasticity on ecological tipping points.
And climate-chamber builder, horticulturalist, and CellPose expert.
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                      Charlotte Jenkins
BSc Honours student
Project: How can agroforestry landscapes contribute to the conservation of mammalian biodiversity?
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                      Molly O'Toole
BMathematics/BScience, Undergraduate Research Thesis
Project: Analysis of large databases of long-term time-series and/or demographic data to identify signatures of the ecological effects of historical heatwaves.
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                      Anna Huggel
Bachelor of Environmental Science, Undergraduate Research Thesis
Project: Chasing a moving target - the effects of non-stationary environmental change on density-independent population growth
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                      Ian Leung
Bachelor of Science, Undergraduate Research Thesis
Project: Chasing a moving target - the effects of non-stationary environmental change on density-dependent population growth.
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                      Harry Cooper
Master of Conservation Biology
Project: How does riparian vegetation affect the long-term dynamics of freshwater fish communities across North America?
 
Lab Alumni
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                      Dr Vhon Garcia
Invaluable Research Assistant, translating molecular genetics skills on animals to plants.
Current position: Postdoc, University of Adelaide
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                      Sarah Hampson, BSc (Hons)
Honours First Class, Top of Year, 2023 Honours Prize Recipient.
Project: Rapid, unprecedented changes in freshwater fish communities across the globe.
Current position: Scientist, GHD Australia
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                      Rachel Driml, BEnvSci (Hons)
Honours First Class
Project: How can an area responsible for 60% of the global supply of cocoa support bird conservation?
Current position: Assessment Officer, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
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                      Jonathan Duke, BSc.
B. Sc. Undergraduate Research Thesis
Project: Interactive effects of climate stressors on marine plankton.
Current position: PhD candidate, Imperial College London.
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                      Samuel Ho, BSc (Hons)
Honours Graduate (First Class, Top of Year)
Project: The distributions and drivers of freshwater fish and frog species composition on Australian islands.
Current position: Terrestrial Research Ecosystem Network (TERN)
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                      Dr Tom Lloyd
Invaluable Research Assistant, who has rightfully gone on to bigger and better things
Current position: Postdoc, James Cook University
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                      Joop Sassen, BSc, Master of Quantitative Biology
Project: Identifying novel fresh water fish communities from time-series data.
Current position: consultant @ Deloitte.