Fields of Research

Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Wildlife and habitat management
Physical oceanography
Behavioural ecology
Biological oceanography
Zoology
Conservation and biodiversity
Population ecology
Animal behaviour
Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
Terrestrial ecology
Ecosystem function
Fisheries management
Freshwater ecology
Oceanography
Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment
Aquaculture
Palaeoclimatology
Global change biology
Animal physiological ecology
Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Fisheries sciences
Environmental assessment and monitoring
Ecology
Evolutionary biology
Other biological sciences
Environmental management
Ecological physiology
Analytical biochemistry
Animal physiology - systems
Comparative physiology
Infectious agents
Physical geography and environmental geoscience
Modelling and simulation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges
Systems biology
Animal welfare
Genomics
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Palaeoecology
Animal cell and molecular biology
Genetics
Climate change science
Pollution and contamination
Climate change impacts and adaptation
Biodiscovery
Natural resource management
Plant cell and molecular biology
Climate change processes
Landscape ecology
Animal physiology - cell
Other earth sciences
Applied statistics
Vertebrate biology
Epigenetics (incl. genome methylation and epigenomics)
Isotope geochemistry
Computational complexity and computability
Photogrammetry and remote sensing
Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
Optimisation
Invertebrate biology
Glaciology
Chemical oceanography
Animal physiology - biophysics
Aerospace engineering
Biological adaptation
Molecular evolution

Research Objectives

Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
Marine biodiversity
Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems
Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Expanding knowledge in the biological sciences
Oceanic processes (excl. in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean)
Effects of climate change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic environments (excl. social impacts)
Other environmental management
Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Effects of climate change on Australia (excl. social impacts)
Antarctic and Southern Ocean oceanic processes
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Fisheries - wild caught
Wild caught fin fish (excl. tuna)
Terrestrial biodiversity
Social impacts of climate change and variability
Coastal or estuarine biodiversity
Aquaculture fin fish (excl. tuna)
Rehabilitation or conservation of terrestrial environments
Natural hazards
Wild caught crustaceans (excl. rock lobster and prawns)
Measurement and assessment of marine water quality and condition
Protection and conservation of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments
Assessment and management of pelagic marine ecosystems
Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
Environmental lifecycle assessment
Climate change mitigation strategies
Fisheries - aquaculture
Understanding climate change
Wild caught tuna
Aquaculture tuna
Marine systems and management
Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems
Artificial intelligence
Antarctic and Southern Ocean ice dynamics
Bioethics
Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
Rehabilitation or conservation of marine environments
Environmentally sustainable animal production
Global effects of climate change (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. social impacts)
Copper ore exploration
Precious (noble) metal ore exploration
Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage and culture

Career Best Publications

Dispersal of female southern elephant seals and their prey consumption during the austral summer: relevance to management and oceanographic zones; Journal of Applied Ecology
Environmental and physiological determinants of successful foraging by naive southern elephant seal pups during their first trip to sea; Canadian Journal of Zoology
Fine-scale three-dimensional spatial use by diving, lactating female Weddell seals Leptonychotes weddellii; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Loyalty pays: potential life history consequences of fidelity to marine foraging regions by southern elephant seals; Animal Behaviour
Remote sensing of Southern Ocean sea surface temperature: implications for marine biophysical models; Remote Sensing of Environment
Seasonal use of oceanographic and fisheries management zones by juvenile southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Macquarie Island; Polar Biology
Variation in maternal provisioning by lactating Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella): response to experimental manipulation in pup demand; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Winter habitat use and foraging behavior of crabeater seals along the Western Antarctic Peninsula; Deep-Sea Research Part II - Topical Studies in Oceanography
You are what you eat: describing the foraging ecology of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) using blubber fatty acids; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences

Research Publications

8. Biogeographic Patterns of Birds and Mammals; Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean
A comparison of techniques used to estimate body condition of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Wildlife Research
A continuous-time state-space model for rapid quality control of argos locations from animal-borne tags; Movement Ecology
A new method to quantify within dive foraging behaviour in marine predators; Plos One
A prediction and imputation method for marine animal movement data; PeerJ Computer Science
A preliminary investigation of the effect of repeated pedestrian approaches to Weddell seals (leptonychotes weddellii); Applied Aninal Behaviour Science
A quantitative analysis linking seabird mortality and marine debris ingestion; Scientific Reports
A quantitative, hierarchical approach for detecting drift dives and tracking buoyancy changes in southern elephant seals; Scientific Reports
A risk assessment of fur seals interactions with aquaculture in Tasmania
A Southern Indian Ocean database of hydrographic profiles obtained with instrumented elephant seals; Nature Scientific Data
A standardisation framework for bio-logging data to advance ecological research and conservation; Methods in Ecology and Evolution
A validated approach for supervised dive classification in diving vertebrates; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Acoustics and photo-identification provide new insights on killer whale presence and movements when interacting with longline fisheries in South East Australia; Fisheries Research
Activity patterns, movements and burrows of platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) in a sub-alpine Tasmanian lake; Australian Journal of Zoology
Age and reproductive maturity of New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri) in southern Australia; Journal of Mammalogy
Age estimation in a long-lived seabird (Ardenna tenuirostris) using DNA methylation-based biomarkers; Molecular Ecology Resources
Age-related shifts in the diet composition of southern elephant seals expand overall foraging niche; Marine Biology
Age-specific cost of first reproduction in female southern elephant seals; Biology Letters
An assessment of the audibility of sound from human transport by breeding Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii); Wildlife Research
Animal Borne Ocean Sensors - AniBOS - an essential component of the Global Ocean Observing System; Frontiers in Marine Science
Animal welfare and conservation, the debate we must have: A response to Draper and Bekoff (2012); Biological Conservation
Animal welfare and decision making in wildlife research; Biological Conservation
Animal-borne telemetry: an integral component of the ocean observing toolkit; Frontiers in Marine Science
Annual reproductive rates of weddell seals in eastern antarctica from 1973 to 2000; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Antarctic Bottom Water production by intense sea-ice formation in the Cape Darnley polynya; Nature Geoscience
Antarctic bottom water production from the Vincennes Bay Polynya, East Antarctica; Geophysical Research Letters
Assessing the impact of toothed whale depredation on socio-ecosystems and fishery management in wide-ranging subantarctic fisheries; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Assessing the importance of net colour as a seabird bycatch mitigation measure in gillnet fishing; Aquatic Conservation
Assessing the potential for resource competition between the Kerguelen Plateau fisheries and southern elephant seals; Frontiers in Marine Science
Assessing the utility of two- and three-dimensional behavioural metrics in habitat usage models; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Assessing the viability of estimating baleen whale abundance from tourist vessels; Frontiers in Marine Science
Assessment of scale-dependent foraging behaviour in southern elephant seals incorporating the vertical dimension: a development of the first passage time method; Journal of Animal Ecology
At-sea distribution and habitat use in king penguins at sub-Antarctic Marion Island; Ecology and Evolution
At-sea distribution of female southern elephant seals relative to variation in ocean surface properties; ICES Journal of Marine Science
Bayesian Estimation of Animal Movement from Archival and Satellite Tags; PLoS One
Behavioral responses of New Zealand fur seals (Arctophoca australis forsteri) to darting and the effectiveness of midazolam and tiletamine-zolazepam for remote chemical immobilization; Marine Mammal Science
Behavioural ontogeny of bearded seals Erignathus barbatus through the first year of life; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Best practice recommendations for the use of external telemetry devices on pinnipeds; Animal Biotelemetry
Beyond big fish: the case for more detailed representations of top predators in marine ecosystem models; Ecological Modelling
Big data analyses reveal patterns and drivers of the movements of southern elephant seals; Scientific Reports
Bio-physical characterisation of polynyas as a key foraging habitat for juvenile male southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica; PLoS One
Blood fatty acids indicate inter- and intra-annual variation in the diet of Adelie penguins: Comparison with stomach content and stable isotope analysis; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Blubber fatty acid profiles indicate dietary resource partitioning juvenile southern between adult and elephant seals; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Body fat and condition in sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, from southern Australian waters; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A - Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Body size shifts and early warning signals precede the historic collapse of whale stocks; Nature Ecology and Evolution
Bottom-up regulation of a pole-ward migratory predator population; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
Breeding sites; Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
Can isoscapes of mesopelagic fish determine foraging hotspots of marine mammals and birds in the southern Indian Ocean?; MEASO 18
Can isoscapes of mesopelagic fish predict top predator hotspots?; Where the Poles come together: A SCAR and IASC Conference
Chemical immobilization of adult female Weddell seals with tiletamine and zolazepam: effects of age, condition and stage of lactation; BMC Veterinary Research
Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories; Ecosphere
Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota; Global Change Biology
Climate influences on female survival in a declining population of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Ecology and Evolution
Climate variability and breeding parameters of a transhemispheric migratory seabird over seven decades; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Coarse-scale relationships between seabirds and zooplankton off south-eastern Tasmania; Marine and Freshwater Research
Coastal polynyas: winter oases for subadult southern elephant seals in East Antarctica; Scientific Reports
Colony-based foraging segregation by Antarctic fur seals at the Kerguelen Archipelago; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Combining bio-logging and fatty acid signature analysis indicates spatio-temporal variation in the diet of the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Combining DNA and morphological analyses of faecal samples improves insight into trophic interactions: a case study using a generalist predator; Marine Biology
Commercial fishing patterns influence odontocete whale-longline interactions in the Southern Ocean; Scientific Reports
Comparison of southern elephant seal populations, and observations of a population on a demographic knife-edge; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Complex interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of long-term survival trends in southern elephant seals; BMC Ecology
Concentrations of organochlorines in sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from Southern Australian waters; Marine Pollution Bulletin
Contrasting behavior between two populations of an ice-obligate predator in East Antarctica; Ecology and Evolution
Contrasting responses to a climate regime change by sympatric, ice-dependent predators; BMC Evolutionary Biology
Convergence of marine megafauna movement patterns in coastal and open oceans; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Crabeater seal diving behaviour in eastern Antarctica; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Decadal changes in blood ¹³C values, at-sea distribution, and weaning mass of southern elephant seals from Kerguelen Islands; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
Decadal changes in habitat characteristics influence population trajectories of southern elephant seals; Global Change Biology
Deep learning resolves representative movement patterns in a marine predator species; Applied Sciences
Defining Southern Ocean fronts and their influence on biological and physical processes in a changing climate; Nature Climate Change
Depletion of deep marine food patches forces divers to give up early; Journal of Animal Ecology
Detecting prey from DNA in predator scats: A comparison with morphological analysis, using Arctocephalus seals fed a known diet; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Determining feeding events and prey encounter rates in a southern elephant seal: a method using swim speed and stomach temperature; Marine Mammal Science
Determining Marine Movements of Australian Pinnipeds; Evolution and Biogeography of Australian Vertebrates
Developing priority variables ('ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables' - eEOVs) for observing dynamics and change in Southern Ocean ecosystems; Journal of Marine Systems
Developments in tagging technology and their contributions to the protection of marine species at risk; Ocean Development and International Law
Diet and diving behaviour of sympatric fur seals Arctocephalus gazella and A. tropicalis at Macquarie Island; Marine Mammal Research in the Southern Hemisphere
Diet and Nutrition; Marine Mammal Physiology: Requisites for Ocean Living
Diet estimation based on an integrated mixed prey feeding experiment using Arctocephalus seals; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Diet of juvenile southern elephant seals reappraised by stable isotopes in whiskers; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Differential mobilization of blubber fatty acids in lactating Weddell seals: Evidence for selective use; Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Differential resource allocation strategies in juvenile elephant seals in the highly seasonal Southern Ocean; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Disentangling the influence of taxa, behaviour and debris ingestion on seabird mortality; Environmental Research Letters
Disentangling the influence of three major threats on the demography of an albatross community; Frontiers in Marine Science
Dispersal of female southern elephant seals and their prey consumption during the austral summer: relevance to management and oceanographic zones; Journal of Applied Ecology
Dive behaviour, foraging locations, and maternal-attendance patterns of Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus); Canadian Journal of Zoology
Dive characteristics can predict foraging success in Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) as validated by animal-borne video; Biology Open
DNA methylation levels in candidate genes associated with chronological age in mammals are not conserved in a long-lived seabird; PLoS One
Do southern elephant seals show density dependence in fecundity?; Polar Biology
Drift dives by male New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri); Canadian Journal of Zoology
Drinking behaviour and water turnover rates of Antarctic fur seal pups: implications for the estimation of milk intake by isotopic dilution; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A - Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Early growth and Milk composition in the southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Australian Journal of Zoology
Ecological drivers of marine debris ingestion in Procellariiform seabirds; Scientific Reports
Ecology of Weddell seals during winter: Influence of environmental parameters on their foraging behaviour; Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Effect of climate variability on weaning mass in a declining population of southern elephant seals Mirounga leonina; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Effects of capture stress on free-ranging, reproductively active male Weddell seals ; Journal of Comparative Physiology A: sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology
Elephant seal foraging success is enhanced in Antarctic coastal polynyas; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences
Elephant seals; Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
Energy content of mesopelagic fish from Macquarie Island; Antarctic Science
Enhancing the use of Argos satellite data for home range and long distance migration studies of marine animals; PLOS One
Environmental and physiological determinants of successful foraging by naive southern elephant seal pups during their first trip to sea; Canadian Journal of Zoology
Environmental determinants of the at-sea distribution of encounters between flesh-footed shearwaters Puffinus carniepes and fishing vessels; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Environmental drivers of oceanic foraging site fidelity in central place foragers; Marine Biology
Environmental influences on foraging effort, success and efficiency in female Australian fur seals; Scientific Reports
Environmental influences on tooth growth in sperm whales from southern Australia; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments; Geophysical Research Letters
Estimating resource acquisition and at-sea body condition of a marine predator; Journal of Animal Ecology
Estimating trans-seasonal variability in water column biomass for a highly migratory, deep diving predator; PLoS ONE
Estimation of body mass in the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina, by photogrammetry and morphometrics; Marine Mammal Science
Evaluating and using stable-isotope analysis to infer diet composition and foraging ecology of Adelie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Evidence for a widely expanded humpback whale calving range along the Western Australian coast; Marine Mammal Science
Extreme polygyny results in intersex differences in age-dependent survival of a highly dimorphic marine mammal; Royal Society Open Science
Factors affecting the precision of age determination of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus); Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
Factors influencing the habitat use of sympatric albatrosses from Macquarie Island, Australia; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Factors influencing the winter haulout behaviour of Weddell seals: consequences for satellite telemetry; Endangered Species Research
Feast or famine: evidence for mixed capital-income breeding strategies in Weddell seals; Oecologia
Feeding ecology of wild migratory tunas revealed by archival tag records of visceral warming; Journal of Animal Ecology
Finding mesopelagic prey in a changing Southern Ocean; Scientific Reports
Finding our way: on the sharing and reuse of animal telemetry data in Australasia; Science of the Total Environment
Fine-scale habitat selection of crabeater seals as determined by diving behavior; Deep-sea research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Fine-scale three-dimensional spatial use by diving, lactating female Weddell seals Leptonychotes weddellii; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Fisheries interaction data suggest variations in the distribution of sperm whales on the Kerguelen Plateau; The Kerguelen Plateau: marine ecosystem and fisheries
Five decades on: use of historical weaning size data reveals that a decrease in maternal foraging success underpins the long-term decline in population of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); PLoS One
Flexible foraging behaviour in a marine predator, the masked booby (Sula dactylatra), according to foraging locations and environmental conditions; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Foraging behaviour of southern elephant seals over the Kerguelen Plateau; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Foraging distribution overlap and marine reserve usage amongst sub-Antarctic predators inferred from a multi-species satellite tagging experiment; Ecological Indicators
Foraging ecology of subantarctic fur seals Arctocephalus tropicalis breeding on Amsterdam Island: seasonal changes in relation to maternal characteristics and pup growth; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula; Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Foraging habitats of top predators, and Areas of Ecological Significance, on the Kerguelen Plateau; The Kerguelen Plateau: marine ecosystem and fisheries
Foraging insights from whisker isotopic signatures of southern elephant seals around the Antarctic Peninsula; Deep-Sea Research. Part 2
Foraging parameters influencing the detection and interpretation of area-restricted search behaviour in marine predators: a case study with the masked booby; PLoS ONE
Foraging strategies of female elephant seals from Península Valdés, Patagonia, inferred from whisker stable isotope signatures of their pups; Aquatic Mammals
Foraging strategies of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) in relation to frontal zones and water masses; Antarctic Science
Foraging strategy switch of a top marine predator according to seasonal resource differences; Frontiers in Marine Science
Foraging zones of royal penguins during the breeding season, and their association with oceanographic features; Marine Ecology Progress Series
From high-resolution to low-resolution dive datasets: a new index to quantify the foraging effort of marine predators; Animal Biotelemetry
From the forests to teeth: visual crossdating to refine age estimates in marine mammals; Marine Mammal Science
From video recordings to whisker stable isotopes: a critical evaluation of timescale in assessing individual foraging specialisation in Australian fur seals; Oecologia
Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment; Biological Conservation
Growth of female southern elephant seals Mirounga leoninaat Macquarie Island; Polar Biology
Growth of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, during their first foraging trip; Australian Journal of Zoology
Growth strategies of New Zealand fur seals in southern Australia; Journal of Zoology
Guarding against oversimplifying the fundamental drivers of southern elephant seal population dynamics; Journal of Biogeography
Habitat model forecasts suggest potential redistribution of marine predators in the southern Indian Ocean; Diversity and Distributions
Habitat modelling of tracking data from multiple marine predators identifies important areas in the Southern Indian Ocean; Diversity and Distributions
Habitat utilization of a mesopelagic predator linked to lower sea-surface temperatures and prey abundance in a region of rapid warming; Deep-Sea Research. Part 2
Habitat-use of Australian fur seals caught and released at salmon aquaculture leases in southern Tasmania
Heart rate, swimming speed, and estimated oxygen consumption of a free-ranging southern elephant seal; Physiological Zoology
High-resolution movements of critically endangered hawksbill turtles help elucidate conservation requirements in northern Australia; Marine and Freshwater Research
Identifying foraging events in deep diving southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, using acceleration data loggers; Deep-Sea Research. Part 2: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Identifying foraging habitats of adult female long-nosed fur seal Arctocephalus forsteri based on vibrissa stable isotopes; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Impacts of climatic anomalies on provisioning strategies of a Southern Ocean predator; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Important marine habitat off east Antarctica revealed by two decades of multi-species predator tracking; Ecography
In situ measures of foraging success and prey encounter reveal marine habitat-dependent search strategies; Ecology
Individual vocal traits of mother and pup fur seals; Bioacoustics
Inferring variation in southern elephant seal at-sea mortality by modelling tag failure; Frontiers in Marine Science
Influence of environmental variation on spatial distribution and habitat-use in a benthic foraging marine predator; Royal Society Open Science
Influence of maternal mass and condition on energy transfer in Weddell seals; Journal of Animal Ecology
Influence of shelf oceanographic variability on alternate foraging strategies in long-nosed fur seals; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Influence of time of day and month on Weddell seal haul-out patterns at the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica; Polar Biology
Ingestion of plastic by fish destined for human consumption in remote South Pacific Islands; Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs
Integrative modelling of animal movement: incorporating in situ habitat and behavioural information for a migratory marine predator; Proc. R. Soc. B.
Inter- and intrasex habitat partitioning in the highly dimorphic southern elephant seal; Ecology and Evolution
Inter-annual and inter-colony variability in breeding performance of four colonies of short-tailed shearwaters; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Interspecific differences in male vocalizations of three sympatric fur seals (Arctocephalus spp.); Journal of Zoology
Intertrip consistency in hunting behavior improves foraging success and efficiency in a marine top predator; Ecology and Evolution
Introduced species and extreme weather as key drivers of reproductive output in three sympatric albatrosses; Scientific Reports
Is plastic ingestion in birds as toxic as we think? Insights from a plastic feeding experiment; Science of The Total Environment
Isotopic insights into mesopelagic niche space and energy pathways on the southern Kerguelen Plateau; Deep-Sea Research. Part 2
Isotopic niches of Mesopelagic fish on the southern Kerguelen Axis: variation and overlap; The Kerguelen Plateau: marine ecosystem and fisheries
It's a girl! A female southern elephant seal born in Western Australia; Australian Journal of Zoology
Juvenile Southern Elephant Seals Exhibit Seasonal Difference in Energetic Requirements and Use of Lopids and Protein Stores; Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Kerguelen Axis 2015-16: Marine science activities in support of research and observing of marine ecosystems in the vicinity of the Kerguelen Axis during 2015-16 austral summer
Killer whale (Orcinus orca) interactions with blue-eye trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica) longline fisheries; PeerJ
Known unknowns in an imperfect world: incorporating uncertainty in recruitment estimates using multi-event capture–recapture models; Ecology and Evolution
Long distance movement of a southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) from Macquarie Island to Peter the First Island; Marine Mammal Science
Long-term breeding phenology shift in royal penguins; Ecology and Evolution
Longline fisheries and foraging distribution of flesh-footed shearwaters in eastern Australia; Journal of Wildlife Management
Loyalty pays: potential life history consequences of fidelity to marine foraging regions by southern elephant seals; Animal Behaviour
Managing for change: using vertebrate at sea habitat use to direct management efforts; Ecological Indicators
Marine Mammal Research in the Southern Hemisphere. Volume 1: Status, Ecology and Medicine; Surrey Beatty & Sons
Marine mammals exploring the oceans pole to pole: a review of the MEOP Consortium; Oceanography
Marine predators and phytoplankton: how elephant seals use the recurrent Kerguelen plume; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Marine telemetry and the conservation and management of risk to seal species in Canada and Australia; Ocean Development and International Law
Mass cetacean strandings - a plea for empiricism; Conservation Biology
Measuring animal age with DNA methylation: from humans to wild animals; Frontiers in Genetics
Mercury and cadmium concentrations in the tissues of three species of southern albatrosses; Polar Biology
Metabolic limits on dive duration and swimming speed in the Southern Elephant seal Mirounga leonina; Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Milk consumption, body composition and pre-weaning growth rates of Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) pups; Journal of Zoology
Modeling Antarctic krill circumpolar spawning habitat quality to identify regions with potential to support high larval production; Geophysical Research Letters
Modelled mid-trophic pelagic prey fields improve understanding of marine predator foraging behaviour; Ecography
Modelling southern elephant seals Mirounga leonina using an individual-based model coupled with a dynamic energy budget; PloS ONE
Molecular scatology as a tool to study diet: analysis of prey DNA in scats from captive Steller sea lions; Molecular Ecology
Movement responses to environment: fast inference of variation among southern elephant seals with a mixed effects model; Ecology
Myctobase, a circumpolar database of mesopelagic fishes for new insights into deep pelagic prey fields; Scientific Data
Nesting ecology of hawksbill turtles at a rookery of international significance in Australia’s Northern Territory; Wildlife Research
New insights into the cardiorespiratory physiology of weaned southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Conservation Physiology
Nonbreeding distribution of flesh-footed shearwaters and the potential for overlap with north Pacific fisheries; Biological Conservation
Ocean observations using tagged animals; Oceanography
Ontogenetic niche partitioning in southern elephant seals from Argentine Patagonia; Marine Mammal Science
Optimizing lifetime reproductive output: intermittent breeding as a tactic for females in a long-lived, multiparous mammal; Journal of Animal Ecology
Overhauling ocean spatial planning to improve marine megafauna conservation; Frontiers in Marine Science
Paternity analysis shows experience, not age, enhances mating success in a an aquatically mating pinniped, the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii); Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Periodic variability in cetacean strandings: links to large-scale climate events; Biology Letters
Physical changes recorded by a deep diving seal on the Patagonian slope drive large ecological changes; Journal of Marine Systems
Plastic, nutrition and pollution; relationships between ingested plastic and metal concentrations in the livers of two Pachyptila seabirds; Scientific Reports
Plasticity in vertical behaviour of migrating juvenile southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) in relation to oceanography of the south Indian Ocean; Fisheries Oceanography
Population status, trends and a re-examination of the hypotheses explaining the recent declines of the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina; Mammal Review
Pre-partum diet of adult female bearded seals in years of contrasting ice conditions; PLoS One
Predicting feeding success in a migratory predator: integrating telemetry, environment, and modeling techniques; Ecology
Predicting krill swarm characteristics important for marine predators foraging off East Antarctica; Ecography
Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability; Ecological Applications
Prediction of krill swarm characteristics that drive a marine predator ‘hotspot' region off East Antarctica; CLIOTOP 3rd Symposium 2015
Preferred, small-scale foraging areas of two Southern Ocean fur seal species are not determined by habitat characteristics; BMC Ecology
Provision of a technical assessment: role for spatial management strategies in mitigating the potential direct and indirect effects of fishing by large mid-water trawl vessels in the small pelagic fishery on protected species
Provisioning in flesh-footed shearwaters (Puffinus Carneipes): Plastic foraging behaviour and the implications for increased fishery interactions; The Auk
Pseudogenes and DNA-based diet analyses: a cautionary tale from a relatively well sampled predator-prey system; Bulletin of Entomological Research
Publish or perish: Why it's important to publicise how, and if, research activities affect animals; Wildlife Research
Pup growth and maternal care in New Zealand Fur Seals, Arctocephalus forsteri, at Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania; Wildlife Research
Putting the behavior into animal movement modeling: improved activity budgets from use of ancillary tag information; Ecology and Evolution
Quantifying the energy stores of capital breeding humpback whales and income breeding sperm whales using historical whaling records; Royal Society Open Science
Radio tracking little penguins, Eudyptula minor, following the Iron Baron oil spill
Re-examining mortality sources and population trends in a declining seabird: using Bayesian methods to incorporate existing information and new data; PLOS One
Refining instrument attachment on phocid seals; Marine Mammal Science
Regional variation in winter foraging strategies by Weddell seals in Eastern Antarctica and the Ross Sea; Frontiers in Marine Science
Remote sensing of Southern Ocean sea surface temperature: implications for marine biophysical models; Remote Sensing of Environment
Reply to ‘Whaling catch data are not reliable for analyses of body size shifts’; Nature Ecology and Evolution
Resource partitioning through oceanic segregation of foraging juvenile southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Oecologia
Return customers: foraging site fidelity and the effect of environmental variability in wide-ranging Antarctic fur seals; PLoS ONE
Satellites, the all-seeing eyes in the sky: counting elephant seals from space; PLoS One
Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour; Nature
Sea temperature variations mediate annual changes in the diet of Australian fur seals in Bass Strait; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Seal habitat use and salmon aquaculture in Storm Bay, Tasmania
Seal mothers expend more on offspring under favourable conditions and less when resources are limited; Journal of Animal Ecology
Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau; Geophysical Research Letters
Seasonal transformation and spatial variability of water masses within MacKenzie Polynya, Prydz Bay; Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Seasonal use of oceanographic and fisheries management zones by juvenile southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Macquarie Island; Polar Biology
Seasonal variation in water flux, field metabolic rate and food consumption of free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus); Australian Journal of Zoology
Shearwater foraging in the Southern Ocean: The roles of prey availability and winds; PLoS One
Shelf-oceanic dynamics of surface environmental parameters in the Kangaroo Island-Bonney Coast region; Marine and Freshwater Research
Shifting trends: detecting environmentally mediated regulation in long-lived marine vertebrates using time-series data; Oecologia
Significant shifts in coastal zooplankton populations through the 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave; Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Size of marine debris items ingested and retained by petrels; Marine Pollution Bulletin
South for the winter? Within-dive foraging effort reveals the trade-offs between divergent foraging strategies in a free-ranging predator; Functional Ecology
Southern Ocean frontal structure and sea-ice formation rates revealed by elephant seals; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Southern Ocean isoscapes derived from a wide-ranging circumpolar marine predator, the Antarctic fur seal; Ecological Indicators
Spatial and temporal variation in the diet of a high trophic level predator, the Australian fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus); Marine Biology
Spatial variability in responses to environmental conditions in Southern Hemisphere long-finned pilot whales; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Spatially explicit estimates of prey consumption reveal a new krill predator in the Southern Ocean; Plos One
Status and trends of Australian (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) and New Zealand fur seals (A. forsteri) in Australia and New Zealand
Stranded dolphin stomach contents represent the free-ranging population's diet; Biology Letters
Studying Seabird Diet through Genetic Analysis of Faeces: A Case Study on Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus); PLOS One
Successful use of a translocation program to investigate diving behavior in a male Australian fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus; Marine Mammal Science
Taking animal tracking to new depths: synthesizing horizontal–vertical movement relationships for four marine predators; Ecology
Telomeres as age markers in vertebrate molecular ecology; Molecular Ecology Resources
Temporal and spatial variability in stable isotope values on seabird islands: what, where and when to sample; Ecological Indicators
Temporal variation in Adelie penguin diet at Bechervaise Island, east Antarctica and its relationship to reproductive performance; Marine Biology: International Journal on Life in Oceans and Coastal Waters
Temporal variation in the vertical stratification of blubber fatty acids alters diet predictions for lactating Weddell seals; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Testing optimal foraging theory models on benthic divers; Animal Behaviour
The age structure and growth of female sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in southern Australian waters; Journal of Zoology
The behavioural response of lactating Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) to over-snow vehicles: a case study; Canadian Journal of Zoology
The biology of southern ocean predators
The breeding biology and factors affecting reproductive success in rockhopper penguins Eudyptes chrysocme at Macquarie Island; Polar Biology
The Composition of Australian Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) Milk throughout Lactation; Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
The cost of a meal: factors influencing prey profitability in Australian fur seals; PeerJ
The diet of female Australian fur seals as determined by animal-borne video cameras; 20th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals
The diet of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in southern Australian waters; ICES Journal of Marine Science
The effect of body condition on the timing and success of breeding in Little Penguins Eudyptula minor; Ibis
The effect of investigator disturbance on egg laying, chick survival and fledging mass of short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris) and little penguins (Eudyptula minor); Animal Welfare
The effects of body size and climate on post-weaning survival of elephant seals at Heard Island; Journal of Zoology
The efficacy of translocating little penguins Eudyptula minor during an oil spill; Biological Conservation
The foraging ecology of two sympatric fur seal species, Arctocephalus gazella and Arctocephalus tropicalis, at Macquarie Island during the austral summer; Marine and Freswater Research
The implications of assuming independent tag loss in southern elephant seals; Ecosphere
The importance of being fat: maternal expenditure in the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina; Marine Mammal Research in the Southern Hemisphere
The individual counts: within sex differences in foraging strategies are as important as sex-specific differences in masked boobies Sula dactylatra; Journal of Avian Biology
The influence of body size on dive duration of underyearling southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Journal of Zoology
The influence of diet on foraging habitat models: a case study using nursing Antarctic fur seals; Ecography: Pattern and Diversity in Ecology
The optimal spatial scale for the analysis of elephant seal foraging as determined by geo-location in relation to sea surface temperatures; ICES Journal of Marine Science
The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project; Scientific Data
The suppression of Antarctic bottom water formation by melting ice shelves in Prydz Bay; Nature Communications
Thermohaline structure and water masses in the north of Antarctic Peninsula from data collected in situ by southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Revista Ambiente e Agua
Three mass strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in southern Australian waters; Marine Mammal Science
Three-dimensional dive profiles of free-ranging Weddell seals; Polar Biology
To breathe or not to breathe: optimal strategies for finding prey in a dark, three-dimensional environment; Journal of Animal Ecology
Tracking and data-logging devices attached to elephant seals do not affect individual mass gain or survival; Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Tracking changes in relative body composition of southern elephant seals using swim speed data; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems; Nature
Trophic structure of Southern Ocean squid: a cross-basin analysis of stable isotopes in archived beaks from predator stomachs; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Twilight-free geolocation from noisy light data; Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Twinning in southern elephant seals: the implications of resource allocation by mothers; Wildlife Research
Under the sea ice: exploring the relationship between sea ice and the foraging behaviour of southern elephant seals in East Antarctica; Progress in Oceanography
Upper ocean stratification and sea ice growth rates during the summer-fall transition, as revealed by Elephant seal foraging in the Ad´elie Depression, East Antarctica; Ocean Sciences
Use of anthropogenic sea floor structures by Australian fur seals: potential positive ecological impacts of marine industrial development?; PLoS ONE
Use of the Southern Ocean by breeding short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris); Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Using biometric measurements to determine gender of Flesh-footed Shearwaters, and their application as a tool in long-line by-catch management and ecological field studies; Emu
Using GPS data to evaluate the accuracy of state-space methods for correction of Argos satellite telemetry error ; Ecology
Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals; Marine Ecology Progress Series
Variability in at-sea foraging behaviour of little penguins Eudyptula minor in response to fine-scale environmental features; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Variability in foraging behaviour of chick-rearing macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus and its relation to diet; Marine Ecology - Progress Series
Variability in sea ice cover and climate elicit sex specific responses in an Antarctic predator; Scientific Reports
Variability in the diving activity of Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, at Iles Kerguelen; Polar Biology
Variation in maternal provisioning by lactating Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella): response to experimental manipulation in pup demand; Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Variations in behavior and condition of a Southern Ocean top predator in relation to in situ oceanographic conditions; Proceedings National Academy of Sciences
Vertical stratification of fatty acids in the blubber of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina): implications for diet analysis; Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B - Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
View from below: inferring behavior and physiology of Southern Ocean marine predators from dive telemetry; Frontiers in Marine Science
Vocal traits of hybrid fur seals: intermediate to their parental species; Animal Behaviour
Warm modified circumpolar deep water intrusions drive ice shelf melt and inhibit dense shelf water formation in Vincennes Bay, East Antarctica; Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans
Weathering a dynamic seascape: influences of wind and rain on a seabird’s year-round activity budgets; PLoS ONE
Weddell seal behaviour during an exceptional oceanographic event in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 2017; Antarctic Science
When large marine predators feed on fisheries catches: global patterns of the depredation conflict and directions for coexistence; Fish and Fisheries
Winter distribution and abundance of crabeater seals off George V Land, East Antarctica; Antarctic Science
Winter habitat predictions of a key Southern Ocean predator, the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella); Deep-Sea Research. Part 2
Winter habitat use and foraging behavior of crabeater seals along the Western Antarctic Peninsula; Deep-Sea Research Part II - Topical Studies in Oceanography
Winter use of sea ice and ocean water mass habitat by southern elephant seals: the length and breadth of the mystery; Progress in Oceanography
You are what you eat: describing the foraging ecology of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) using blubber fatty acids; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences

Research Projects

2009 R1 - Attendance and Presentation at Australasian Ornithological Conference 2009 Armidale - title of presentation 'Ecology of the Tasmanian Masked Owl' - 29 November to 4 December 2009; Birds Australia (BA)
Advancing Antarctic science with a new High Altitude Platform capability; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Assessing the role of Weddell seals in the Antarctic sea-ice zone; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Assessment of habitats, productivity and food webs on the Kerguelen Axis in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
At-sea energetic requirements of southern elephant seals, 'Mirounga leonina' - a pilot study; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Bottom-up and top-down influences on demographic parameters of Southern Ocean albatrosses; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Bottom-up and top-down influences on demographic parameters of Southern Ocean albatrosses; Antarctic Science Ltd (AntSci)
Cetacean Strandings in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary: Influences on these Events; Environment Australia (EA)
Changing climate and the winter foraging behaviour of Antarctic fur seal populations; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Climatic variability and harvest impacts on the demography of the short-tailed shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris): A trans-hemisphere migrant; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Comparative Age-based Molecular Processes in Marine Mammals: Development and Application of Non-invasive, Genetic Age Estimation Techniques; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Developing Better Ways to Understand, Predict and Manage Competition between Fisheries and Seals in Southern Australia; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Developing solutions to marine mammal interactions with long-line fisheries; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Development and Application of Non-invasive DNA Technology for Marine Mammal Ecology and Management; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Diet of killer whales in Australian waters: insights from signature fatty acids and stable isotope analysis; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Distribution and abundance, and consumption of marine resources, by Antarctic seabirds in the pack ice zone of the Southern Indian Ocean during spring.; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Diving physiology and energy requirements of free ranging southern Elephant Seals; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Diving physiology of free ranging southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina); Australian Research Council (ARC)
Ecological energetics in subalpine eastern quolls; Trust of M.A. Ingram (INGRAM)
Ecological Requirements of the Tasmanian Masked Owl; Birds Australia (BA)
Ecological requirements of the Tasmanian Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae castanops; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Effects of maternal foraging success and oceanographic variation on offspring behaviour and survival in the Weddell Seal; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Effects of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Marine Productivity on Energy Acquisition in Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina); Australian Research Council (ARC)
Energetic Variability in toothed whales and relationships with the marine environment; Australian Geographic Society (AGS)
Energetic variability in toothed whales and relationships with the marine environment; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Energetic variability in toothed whales and relationships with the marine environment; Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales (RZSNSW)
Energy requirements and daily food consumptions of crabeater seals in the Autarctic winter pack-ice; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Estimates of baleen whale abundance that overlap in space and time with krill fishing the southwest Atlantic (Henderson/UTAS); Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund (AWRF)
Evaluating the likelihood of regime shifts in Southern Ocean ecosystems; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Food consumption and energy expenditure of free ranging southern elephant seals; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Food consumption and foraging success of free-ranging southern elephant seal; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Foraging activity of Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, in relation to oceanographic parameters in the Kerguelen region; Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
Foraging and reproductive strategies of the Weddell seal in the Vestfold Hills, Eastern Antarctica; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Foraging ecology and energentics of the Royal Penguin; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Foraging ecology and lactation strategies of sympatrically breeding fur seals (arctocephalus spp.) at Macquarie Island; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Foraging ecology of crested (Eudyptes) penguins at Macquarie Island.; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Foraging ecology of crested penguins; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Foraging ecology of Gentoo penguins; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Foraging Ecology, Reproductive Success and Population Trends Masked Boobies Sula dactylatra tasmani in the Western Pacific; Australian Geographic Society (AGS)
Foraging Ecology, Reproductive Success and Population Trends of Tasman boobies Sula dactylatra tasmani in the Western Pacific; Birds Australia (BA)
Foraging Ecology, Reproductive Success and Population Trends of the Masked Booby Sula dactylatra in the Western Pacific; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Foraging Strategies of a Wide-Ranging Apex Predator in the Southern Ocean - the Southern Elephant Seal; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Foraging Zones of Macaroni Penguins Breeding at Heard Island; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
From Physics to Animals: Integration and Synthesis of Antarctic Predator Tracking Data with Oceanographic and Sea-ice Data; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Impact of environmental variability on the Patagonian Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) fishery; Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC)
Interactions between fur seals and marine resources in the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone in the Southern Indian Ocean; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Investigating the relationship between marine resources and foraging and reproductive success in two sympatrically breeding sea bird species in Southern Tasmania; Australian Geographic Society (AGS)
Investigating the relationship between marine resources and foraging and reproductive success in two sympatrically breeding seabird species in Southern Tasmania; Royal Naval Birdwatching Society (RNBWS)
Lactation strategies in fur seals: sources of variation and comparison between polar and temperate species.; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Life History Parameters and Foraging Ecology of Juvenile Southern Elephant Seals at Macquarie Island; Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
Measuring energy expenditure and torpor in free-living mammals: a pilot study using digital radiotelemetry; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Measuring the Effects of Human Activity on Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddelli) in Antarctica; Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
Measuring the Effects of Human Activity on Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in Antarctica; CRC for Sustainable Tourism Pty Ltd (CRCT)
Mesopelagic Southern Ocean Prey and Predators (MESOPP); European Commission (EC)
Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation; Linnean Society of New South Wales (LSNSW)
Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation.; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Multi-species animal tracking: analytical methods and application ; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
New models for understanding the role of mesopelagic fishes and squid in Southern Ocean ecosystems; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Pelagic ecosystem linkages in a changing Southern Ocean; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Population level effects of plastic ingestion of Australasian seabirds; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Population-level effects of plastic ingestion in Australasian seabirds; Australian Wildlife Society (AWSoc)
Population-level effects of plastic ingestion in Australasian seabirds; Birdlife Australia (BLA)
Prey consumption by seabirds in the Southern Indian Ocean; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Quantifying Prey Consumption Rates in Southern Elephant Seals: Does Hypo-Metabolism in Diving Seals Affect Ecosystem Models?; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Quantifying the ecological factors under-pinning population trends in crested penguins; British Ornithologist's Union (BOU)
Quantifying Trophic Links in Four Antarctic Marine Predators; Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
Quantifying Trophic Links in Several Antarctic Marine Predators; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Quantifying Trophic Links in Several Antarctic Marine Predators; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Quantifying whole island ecosystem recovery following pest eradication; Australian Academy of Science (AASc)
Satellite tracking juvenile shy albatrosses from Tasmania; Ian Potter Foundation (IPF)
Scale Dependent Effects of Environmental Variation on Two Sympatrically Breeding Seabirds in Tasmania; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Seals as Oceanographic Samplers; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Seals from space: Developing techniques to use satellite remote sensing to census pack-ice seals in Prydz Bay; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Southern Right Whales and Stable Isotopes: Towards Defining Southern Right Whale Feeding Habitat and Trophic Ecology; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Squid: the missing link in Southern Ocean ecosystem models; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Statistically Robust Methods to Integrate Tagging and Other Spatial Data to Reduce Uncertainty about Spatial Dynamics in Marine Ecosystem Management; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Distribution and Habitat Preferences of Cetaceans Along the West Coast of Tasmania; Santos Limited (SL)
The Distribution and Habitat Requirements of Odontocetes within the Bonney Upwelling Area, South-West Victoria, Australia: A Pilot Study; Santos Limited (SL)
The Effect of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Marine Productivity on Energy Acquisition in Female Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga Leonina); Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
The Effect of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Marine Productivity on Energy Acquisition in Southern Elephant Seals, Mirounga Leonina; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
The foraging ecology of Australian fur seals in Bass Strait; Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
The foraging ecology of Australian fur seals in Bass Strait and an assessment of the potential for interactions with commercial fisheries; Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA)
The foraging ecology of crested penguins at Macquarie Island; Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
The foraging ecology of crested penguins at Maquaire Island, a study to assist in striking balance between an intensive fishing industry & the conservat; Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation (CLF)
The influence of fine-scale environmental variation and anthropogenic stresses on the foraging ecology of marine mesopredators in south-east Tasmania; Paddy Pallin Foundation (PadPF)
The influence of fine-scale environmental variation and anthropogenic stresses on the foraging ecology of marine mesopredators in south-east Tasmania; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
The Role of Eastern Antarctic Polynyas in Global Ocean Circulation; Australian Research Council (ARC)
The Species Assemblage, Distribution and Relative Abundance of Cetaceans throughout an Area of Seismic Exploration in the Western Tasmanian Region; Santos Limited (SL)
Top predators and feeding people from the ocean: natural behaviour, habituation, and the foraging ecology of Australian fur seals in Tasmania; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
TRACK. A New Tool for Integration, Interpolation and Visualisation of Animal Tracking Data; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Uncoupling oceanographic and life history drivers to alternate foraging strategies in Long-nosed fur seals; Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (HWRE)
Uncoupling oceanographic and life history drivers to alternate foraging strategies in Long-nosed fur seals; Field Naturalists Society of South Australia Inc (FNSSA)
Use of Fatty Acids from Southern Elephant Seals (mirounga leonina) to Investigate Diet Structure; Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)
Using Animal-borne Cameras to Quantify Prey Field, Habitat Characteristics and Foraging Success in a Marine Top Predator; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Using animal-borne sensors to unravel East Antarctic coastal productivity; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Using size-based models to understand the role of mesopelagic fish and squid in the Southern Ocean ecosystem; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Using Stable Isotopes to Characterize the Structure of Marine Polar Communities; Australian Academy of Science (AASc)
When the world isn't big enough, decline of the global forager the short-tailed shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris) in Tasmania, Australia; Australian Geographic Society (AGS)
When the World Isn't Big Enough: Decline of a Global Migrant - the Short-Tailed Shearwater; Birdlife Australia (BLA)
When the world isn't big enough: decline of a global migrant: the short-tailed shearwater; Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust (WVS)
Winter Foraging Locations of Southern Ocean Predators - Sub Antarctic Islands; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Winter Foraging Locations of Southern Ocean Predators in Relation to Stochastic Variation in Sea-ice Extent; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Winter Foraging of Weddell Seals: A Pilot Study to Assess their Role in the Winter Sea-ice Zone and their Potential as Ocean Sampling Platforms; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Winter Foraging Success of Southern Ocean Predators in Relation to Stochastic Variation in Sea-Ice Extent and Winter Water Formation; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Winter Temperature and Salinity Profile Measurements in the Southern Ocean Using Elephant Seals as Ocean Sampling Platforms; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Auckland island sea lion tracking
Campbell Island Pup Tracking and Camera Trap Data Analysis
Campbell Island Pup Tracking and Camera Trap Data Analysis - Part 2
College of Experts
Donation via University Foundation
Donations - Geolocation Journeys
Investigative development of minimally invasive means to gather demographic information in cetacean: a comprehensive comparative approach
New Zealand (NZ) Sealion declines
Research Donation - An Integrated study of a biodiverse temperate ecosystem in the south-eastern Australian hotspot
Review of the Phillip Island Nature Park's Research Program
Role for spatial management strategies in mitigating the potential direct and indirect effects of fishing by large mid-water vessels in the Small Pelagic Fishery on protected species
Seal habitat use and salmon aquaculture interactions in Storm Bay, Tasmania
Seal relocation risk, effectiveness and natural context - Phase 1
Spatial Modelling Services towards GAB 4.2 project
Status of fur seals and their interactions with aquaculture in Tasmania
Using In-situ Measurements to Measure Fine-Scale Oceanography with Higher Marine Predators in the Southern Ocean
The mating system of the Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddelli
Weddell Seal mating systems
Winter foraging, oceanic variability and reproductive success in female Weddell seals, Leptonychotes weddellii

Research Candidate Supervision

An ecosystem based approach to studying cetaceans in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary
Analysis of Marine Animal Behaviour from Electronic Tagging and Telemetry Data using State-space Models
Analytical Techniques for the Interpretation of Satellite Derived Marine Animal Locations
Analytical Tools for Estimating Predator Diets in Marine Ecosystems
Aspects of ecology of Weddell seals at the Vestfold Hills
Aspects of the Ecology of Weddell Seals Leptonychotes weddellii Along the Mawson Coastline, East Antarctica
Breeding success and foraging strategies of Adelie penguins at Bechervaise Island
Climatic Variability and Harvest Impacts on the Demography of the Short-Tailed Shearwater (Puffinus Tenuirostris)- A Trans-Equatorial Migratory Seabird
Demographic Responses of Antarctic Fur Seals to Environmental Variability
Developing predictive models of fur seal - fishery competition
DNA-based Methods for Studying the Diet of Marine Predators
Ecological Diagnostics for Marine Mammals- Appraisal of Molecular-based Methods for Dietary and Age Estimation
Ecology and Habitat of a Threatened Nocturnal Bird, the Tasmanian Masked Owl
Ecology and Physiology of Deepwater Chondrichthyans off Southeast Australia- Mercury, Stable Isotope and Lipid Analysis
Emperor penguin foraging ecology
Energetic Variability in Sperm Whales and Relationships with the Marine Environment.
Environmental Influences on Annual Migrations of Juvenile Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus Maccoyii)
Environmental physiology of the eastern quoll in subalpine Tasmania
Fisheries Oceanography of Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Tasman Sea
Foraging ecology of Australian Fur Seals in Bass Strait
Foraging Ecology of Masked Boobies- The Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors
Foraging ecology of southern elephant seals from Heard Island
Foraging Ecology of Weddell Seals According to Oceanographic Parameters in Summer and Winter in East Antarctica
Foraging Strategies of a Wide-ranging Predator in the Southern Ocean - the Southern Elephant Seal
Glacial Refugia of Antarctic Ice Breeding Species
Growth of the southern elecphant seal Mirounga leonina (Linnaeus 1758) at Macquarie Island
Implications for Interactions with Fisheries
Incorporating Individual Heterogeneity into Mark-recapture Models
Investigating Decline of Short-tailed Shearwaters at Wedge Island Tasmania
Macquarie Island¿s Albatrosses- A comprehensive assessment of population and demographic status and trends and the environmental and anthropogenic
Maternal Investment by Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina)- Foraging Success and Offspring Survival
Measuring the Effect of Human Activity on Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in Antarctica
Migrations of juvenile southern elephant seals from Macquarie Island
Modelling the Foraging Ecology of the Flesh-footed Shearwater in Relation to Fisheries and Oceanography
Novel Methods for Quantifying Movement Behaviour of Free-ranging Fish from Telemetry Data
Population demographics of recovering fur seal, populations;what is driving the rapid increase in New Zealand fur seal numbers in Australia
Population ecology of the potoroo (Potorous tridactylus)
Population Viability Analyses in Seabirds - Adelie Penguin Pygoscelis adeliae
Quantifying the Trophic Linkages of Antarctic Marine Predators
Representing Southern Ocean predators in end-to-end ecosystem models using individual-based modelling
Reproductive Strategies of Adult Female Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) and their Implications for Pup Survival
Response to Change in the Environment- Population Dynamics of Weddell Seals in East Antarctica
Shorebird Habitat Use and Macroinvertebrate Composition in Robbins Passage/Boullanger Bay Wetlands, NW Tasmania
Spatial Scale and the Distribution of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor)
Spatial utilization by herbivores in Tasmania
Temporal Variability and Evaluation of Methods Used to Infer Diet of a Southern Ocean Predator, the Adelie Penguin Pygoscelis adeliae
The comparative foraging ecology of Royal Eudyptes schlegeli and Rockhopper E chrysocome Penguins
The foraging activity and provisioning strategies of Antarctic fur seals in relation to changes in oceanographic conditions at the Kerguelen Archipelago
The foraging ecology and provisioning strategies of sumpatric fur seals Arctocephalus gazella and Arctocephalus tropicalis at Macquarie Island
The Influence of Climate on the Migration Phenology of Humpback Whales (Megaptera Noveangliae) on the West Coast of Australia
The life history of sperm whales (physeter macrocephalus) in southern Australian waters
The Life-history of Short-tailed Shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris) in Response to Spatio-temporal Environmental Variation
The Role of Juvenile Foraging Ecology and Growth in the Evolution of Life HIstory Strategies for Southern Elephant Seals
The Sympatric Influence of the Dusky Robin Melandryas vittata on the Scarlet Robin Petroica multicolor and Flame Robin Petroica phoenicea
The Tag Location Problem
The Utility of DNA Based Diet Analysis in Foraging Ecology- A Case Study Using Marine Generalist Predator
The Winter Movements of Weddell Seals in the Sea Ice Zone of Eastern Antarctica
Top Marine Predator Foraging Behaviour in Relation to Primary Productivity in the Southern Ocean
Winter Foraging Success of Southern Elephant Seals in Relation to Variations in Sea-Ice Extent and Winter Water Formation
Winter Habitat Usage and Trophic Links for Antarctic Fur Seal Populations in the Southern Ocean
You are what you eat- investigating diet structure and trophic relationships between southern elephant seals and their prey using fatty acid signature analysis