Jill Brouwer is currently studying the effect of ocean acidification on mussel sperm-egg interactions for her Honours degree at the University of Western Australia. She is interested in multidisciplinary research involving chemistry and marine science. She has also undertaken some work in seafloor mapping and acoustics, and is hoping to do further study in this … Continued
Paula completed a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Biology) with Distinction and Honours (First Class) at Curtin University from 2014 – 2018. For her Honours research, Paula developed a remote sensing turbidity algorithm and toolkit for monitoring a flood plume in the Miri-Sibuti Coral Reef National Park, Borneo. Paula is presently undertaking PhD research at the … Continued
Federica Foglini is a senior marine data scientist at the Institute of Marine Science (CNR-ISMAR) in Bologna. Her main interest and expertise is in seafloor mapping and geomorphology, marine cartography, habitat mapping technologies, multi beam swath bathymetry acquisition and processing, marine spatial data management, and Geodatabase design and implementation. She obtained her degree in Geology … Continued
Taylor Simpkins is from California, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Marine Science at the University of San Diego. Taylor has worked for the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), San Diego State University (SDSU), and Hubbs Research Institute as a scientific diver on kelp, seagrass, and fish stock restoration projects in temperate systems. … Continued
Todd Bond has been immersed in the ocean from a very young age while growing up in Perth, Western Australia. He pursued his passion for natural sciences and the marine environment at The University of Western Australia where he received an honours degree in Marine Science. Following graduation, he took several appointments with UWA as … Continued
Kaycee Handley is a Master of Research candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Her research uses isotope geochemistry to improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of oceanic anoxic events. She completed a Bachelor of Science at Macquarie University in 2018 where she majored in climate … Continued
Sara Hajbane is a physical oceanographer and archaeologist currently undertaking a PhD in environmental engineering at the University of Western Australia, where she has previously completed her Bachelors and Honours degrees. Her current project aims to understand the oceanographic processes that create areas with high plastic concentrations in coastal waters. Her focus for this project … Continued
Netra Sagar joined the Australian Research Council’s Coral Reef Centre of Excellence group at the University of Western Australia as a PhD candidate in 2017. His research aims to reconstruct climate and anthropogenic signals on the Indian Ocean margins using the geochemistry of scleractinian corals and larger foraminifera. His principal supervisors are Professor Malcolm McCulloch, … Continued
Ana Hara is a Technical Officer working in the Crustacea and Worm’s Section at the Western Australian Museum (WAM). Ana completed a Master’s degree at the University of Western Australia in 2008, investigating New Zealand fur seal ecology. Her undergraduate degree in biology was completed in her homeland at the University of São Paulo, in … Continued
Carlin Bowyer has held the position of Field Operations Manager for the last 6 years with the University of Western Australia’s Coastal and Ocean Dynamics Group, which is part of UWA’s node of the Australian Research Council’s Coral Reef Centre of Excellence. Carlin has a background in Marine and Environmental science, specializing in spatial information … Continued
