Laurence Dugal is currently undertaking a PhD in marine science at the University of Western Australia, where she also completed Bachelor and Honours degrees. Her research focuses on applying environmental DNA metabarcoding techniques to study marine ecosystems in NW Western Australia by tracking the genetic material left behind by a range of organisms. Part of … Continued
Rebecca is a quantitative ecologist with over 15 years of experience in marine ecology, more than 50 peer review publications and highly developed skills in statistical modelling. Rebecca has experience working across academia, industry and government. Her interests lie at the interface between ecology, numerical modelling and quantitative decision science and she is committed to … Continued
Muhammad Abdul Wahab is a benthic ecologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and is based in Darwin, Northern Territory. He received his PhD from James Cook University and AIMS, studying population ecology of sponges, which provided a fundamental understanding on the reproduction, spawning and recruitment of several sponge species on the Great … Continued
Dr. Kara Layton is a marine evolutionary biologist and currently a Lecturer in Marine Biology at the University of Aberdeen. Kara earned her BSc and MSc at the University of Guelph and her PhD at the University of Western Australia, and recently completed postdoctoral research at the Ocean Frontier Institute and Memorial University of Newfoundland. … Continued
Jenelle Ritchie is a Project Technical Officer in the Aquatic Zoology department at the Western Australian Museum. She received a BSc. in Conservation Biology from Murdoch University, and was employed at the CSIRO before commencing work at the museum. During her employment at the museum over the last 12 years she has worked on many … Continued
Ana Hara is the Technical Officer for 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 at the University of São Paulo, in Brazil – where she … Continued
Dr. Karen Miller is a Principal Research Scientist with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), based in Perth, Western Australia. Karen commenced her journey in marine science as a 10-year-old learning to snorkel at Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef – and has never looked back! She completed her undergraduate studies at the … Continued
Mary is a benthic ecologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Much of Mary’s research has focussed on coral habitats of the Great Barrier Reef, however more recently this has shifted to benthic communities off the north-west coast of Australia in near-shore habitats and deep-water shoals. Mary is interested in the processes driving community … Continued
Amanda (Mandy) Reid is a taxonomist with a particular interest in the Sepiida (cuttlefishes) and the Sepiolida (that includes the bottletail squids and their relatives). Dr Reid attended Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and first developed an interest in the undersea world while working on polychaete worms at the Australian Museum, Sydney. She studied a … Continued
Dr Rachel Przeslawski is the Director of Discovery & Engagement and a marine scientist at Geoscience Australia. Her research broadly investigates how environmental stressors affect marine invertebrates, particularly their early life stages. She has undertaken research on the potential effects of seismic impacts on marine invertebrates, as well as characterising biodiversity in northern Australian marine … Continued
