Fields of Research

Fisheries management
Natural resource management
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Fisheries sciences
Conservation and biodiversity
Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment
Climate change impacts and adaptation

Research Objectives

Fisheries - wild caught
Coastal and estuarine systems and management
Wild caught fin fish (excl. tuna)
Rehabilitation or conservation of marine environments
Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems
Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives)
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem)

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Decline and partial recovery of a trawl fishery in South-eastern Australia; Rebuilding of marine fisheries Part 2: Case studies
Deep aspirations: towards a sustainable offshore Blue Economy; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Developing achievable alternate futures for key challenges during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires broader performance indicators for the human dimension; Marine Policy
Fishery development and exploitation in South East Australia; Frontiers in Marine Science
Identifying historical baseline at the onset of exploitation to improve understanding of fishing impacts; Aquatic Conservation
Ocean resource use: building the coastal blue economy; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Species-area relationships as indicators of human impacts on demersal fish communities; Diversity and Distributions

Research Projects

The importance of ecological baselines in developing ecosystem models; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Research Candidate Supervision