Fields of Research

Fisheries management
Fisheries sciences
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Physical oceanography

Research Objectives

Wild caught edible molluscs
Aquaculture molluscs (excl. oysters)
Coastal or estuarine biodiversity
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Marine biodiversity
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Fisheries - wild caught

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Climate change cascades: Shifts in oceanography, species' ranges and subtidal marine community dynamics in eastern Tasmania; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Ecological status of the Derwent and Huon Estuaries.
Growth model selection for juvenile blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra): assessing statistical and biological validity; Marine and Freshwater Research
Growth models for fisheries: the effect of unbalanced sampling error on model selection, parameter estimation, and biological predictions; Journal of Shellfish Research
Growth of abalone (Haliotis rubra) with implications for its productivity
Identification and evaluation of performance indicators for abalone fisheries
Legal minimum lengths and the management of abalone fisheries; Journal of Shellfish Research
The effectiveness of broad-scale legal minimum lengths for protecting spawning biomass of Haliotis rubra in Tasmania; New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
The relative suitability of the von Bertalanffy,Gompertz and inverse logistic models for describing growth in blacklip abalone populations (Haliotis rubra) in Tasmania, Australia; Fisheries Research: An International Journal on Fishing Technology, Fisheries Science and Fisheries Management
Trends and management implications of human-influenced life-history changes in marine ectotherms; Fish and Fisheries

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision