Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Stephen Edward Swearer
Citation names
- Swearer, Stephen
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 9F1E-B46A-7B58
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6381-9943
Email addresses
- sswearer@unimelb.edu.au (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- (+61) 432757143 (Professional)
Addresses
- School of BioSciences, Building 147, Gate 12, Royal Parade, 3010, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Professional)
Websites
- https://reef.edu.au (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Marine Biology
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English (Mother tongue) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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1992/09/01 - 2001/03/31
Concluded
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Biological Sciences (Doktor (PhD))
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
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1987/09/01 - 1991/05/31
Concluded
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Aquatic Biology (Bachelor)
Brown University, United States
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2007/01/01 - Current | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
2001/01/01 - Current | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2016/01/01 - Current | Full Professor (University Teacher) | University of Melbourne School of BioSciences, Australia |
2009/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
2006/01/01 - 2009/12/31 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
2001/01/01 - 2006/12/31 | Lecturer (University Teacher) | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/01/01 - Current | Deputy Head, School of BioSciences | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
2016/01/01 - Current | Director, National Centre for Coasts and Climate | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
2009/01/01 - 2011/12/31 | Deputy Head, Department of Zoology | The University of Melbourne, Australia |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/01/01 - 2021/12/31 | Understanding climate and harvest induced changes in fish life histories
DP190101627
Principal investigator
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Australian Research Council |
2018/07/01 - 2021/06/30 | Optimal management of overabundant sea urchins in Victoria
BRPM003
Principal investigator
Victoria Department of Environment Land Water and Planning, Australia
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2016/05/01 - 2021/05/01 | Establishment of the National Centre for Coasts and Climate
NA
Principal investigator
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Australia
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2018/01/01 - 2020/12/31 | Nature-based innovation to help coastal communities adapt to climate change
NA
Principal investigator
Victoria Department of Environment Land Water and Planning, Australia
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2017/07/01 - 2020/06/30 | Restoring healthy ecosystems on subtidal reefs: an integrated approach
2017PPBF03014
Principal investigator
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Victoria Department of Environment Land Water and Planning |
2017/07/01 - 2020/06/30 | From grey to green: nature-based solutions for coastal protection
2017PPBF03061
Principal investigator
Victoria Department of Environment Land Water and Planning, Australia
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2017/07/01 - 2020/06/30 | Managing nitrogen loads in Port Phillip Bay: towards better water quality
2017PPBF03060
Principal investigator
Victoria Department of Environment Land Water and Planning, Australia
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2016/01/01 - 2018/12/31 | Born at the right time? Disentangling the effects of birthdate and developmental trajectories on fitness, population dynamics,
and the evolution of life-history strategies
15-VUW-028
Principal investigator
Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, New Zealand
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2016/07/01 - 2018/06/30 | Solving key industry bottlenecks for sea urchin roe enhancement
PRJ-010410
Principal investigator
Rural Industries Research and Development Corp, Australia
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2015/07/01 - 2017/06/30 | Patterns of interaction between habitat and oceanographic variables affecting the connectivity and productivity of invertebrate
fisheries
2015-025
Principal investigator
Australian Government Fisheries Research and Development Corp, Australia
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2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 | Assessing the ecological costs and benefits of artificial wetlands in urban landscapes
LP140100343
Principal investigator
Australian Research Council, Australia
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2014/07/01 - 2017/06/30 | Linking flow, nutrients, seagrass and fish: an integrated approach to estuary management
LP1400100807
Principal investigator
Australian Research Council, Australia
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2013/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | Winners and Losers: Effects of demographic heterogeneity on individual fitness and the dynamics of marine metapopulations
VUW1201
Principal investigator
Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, New Zealand
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2012/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | Otolith fingerprinting to detect and trace farmed salmon
900710
Principal investigator
Fiskeri og havbruksnæringens forskningsfinansiering, Norway
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2014/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | Global threat to freshwater ecosystems through pollution and climate change
NA
Principal investigator
Winifred Violet Scott Charitable Trust, Australia
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2013/05/01 - 2014/12/31 | REEFFISH - Identifying the drivers of recruitment success in temperate reef fish
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
2012/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | LarvalSources: assessing the ecological performance of marine protected area (MPA) networks
PTDC/BIA-BIC/120483/2010
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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2011/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | The Reef Ecosystem Evaluation Framework (REEF): Managing for Resilience in Temperate Environments
NA
Principal investigator
Victoria Department of Environment Land Water and Planning, Australia
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2012/01 - 2014/12 | LarvalSources: assessing the ecological performance of marine protected area (MPA) networks
PTDC/BIA-BIC/120483/2010
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N/A |
2011/07/01 - 2014/06/30 | Triple jeopardy in the tropics: assessing extinction risk in Australia’s freshwater biodiversity hotspot
HSF 11/4
Principal investigator
Hermon Slade Foundation, Australia
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2010/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Victorian Centre for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management
NA
Principal investigator
Victoria Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Australia
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2009/01/01 - 2011/12/31 | What drives recruitment variability in Snapper? Application of a novel theoretical and empirical approach to predict fluctuations
in fisheries
Principal investigator
Australian Research Council, Australia
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Austen Riggs Center |
2009/07/01 - 2011/06/30 | Should I stay or should I go? Identifying pathways of larval dispersal in a temperate reef fish
APSF 09/3
Principal investigator
Australia and Pacific Science Foundation, Australia
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2006/01/01 - 2010/12/31 | Linking freshwater flows, salt wedge dynamics and fisheries productivity in estuaries
Principal investigator
Australian Research Council, Australia
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Austen Riggs Center |
2007/01/01 - 2009/12/31 | Maelstrom in the matrix: extreme environmental heterogeneity necessitates a novel conceptual framework for marine metapopulations
06-VUW-063
Principal investigator
Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, New Zealand
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2006/01/01 - 2008/12/31 | Managing the health of reef fish communities
06/07 RCIP
Principal investigator
Natural Heritage Trust, Australia
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2005/01/01 - 2008/12/31 | Developing tools for assessing ecological performance of marine protected areas
Principal investigator
Australian Research Council, Australia
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Austen Riggs Center |
2006/01/01 - 2007/12/31 | The conservation status of reef fish communities in Victorian waters
PP060704115
Principal investigator
Natural Heritage Trust, Australia
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2005/01/01 - 2006/12/31 | Assessing the impact of estuary management on the sustainability of aquatic ecosystems
NA
Principal investigator
Natural Heritage Trust, Australia
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2003/01/01 - 2005/12/31 | How connected are marine populations? Comparing life histories of endemic and non-endemic reef fishes to investigate the mechanisms
behind self-recruitment.
Principal investigator
Australian Research Council, Australia
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Austen Riggs Center |
2003/01/01 - 2005/12/31 | Diadromous stream fishes: a model system for investigating sources of variation in recruitment.
Australian Research Council, Australia
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Austen Riggs Center |
2003/01/01 - 2004/12/31 | Towards a mechanistic understanding of population connectivity in marine environments: Integrating larval condition, dispersal
pathways and post-recruitment survival
02-VUW-022
Principal investigator
Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund, New Zealand
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2003/01/01 - 2004/12/31 | Mechanisms of population replenishment in the fish fauna of Lord Howe Island
7481-03
Principal investigator
National Geographic Society, United States
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2019 | Keynote: Insights, challenges and future opportunities in the use of elemental chemistry to study marine larval dispersal and population connectivity | International Marine Connectivity Conference |
2017 | Invited: Restoring the lost kelp forests of Port Phillip Bay | Connecting Coastal Champions Forum |
2015 | Invited: Realizing connectivity – the influence of early life history on the dynamics of marine metapopulations | Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystems Conference |
2013 | Keynote: Dispersal in the sea: illuminations from the black box of larval biology | 1st Movement and Dispersal Conference |
2012 | Keynote: Larval dispersal and retention in the sea | Larval Biology Conference |
2009 | Invited: Does landscape context influence the magnitude of connectivity in marine metapopulations? | Larval Fish Conference |
2008 | Keynote: Lessons from a closet otolith chemist: using geochemical approaches to investigate larval dispersal in invertebrates and fish | 8th Larval Symposium |
2004 | Invited: Life history variation among endemic and non-endemic coral reef fishes | 10th International Coral Reef Symposium |
2002 | Keynote: What can otolith microchemistry tell us about larval dispersal? Methodological issues associated with the analysis and interpretation of elemental signatures | American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Summer Conference |
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2016 - 2020 | Bioremediation of nutrient-enriched coastal ecosystems using macroalgae
Co-supervisor of Juan Manuel Valero Rodriguez
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2018 - 2019 | Spatial heterogeneity of sediment organic carbon stock in temperate Avicennia marina forest
Co-supervisor of Yang Hu
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2018 - 2019 | Testing the efficacy of sea urchin exclusion methods for kelp restoration
Co-supervisor of Rituraj Sharma
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2018 - 2019 | Optimising the initial cultivation stages of kelp Ecklonia radiata for restoration
Co-supervisor of Sarucha Suebsanguan
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2016 - 2019 | Biochemical mechanisms of biomineralization and elemental incorporation in otoliths: implications for fish and fisheries research
Supervisor of Oliver Thomas
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2015 - 2018 | Habitat preferences and fitness consequences for fauna associated with novel marine environments
Co-supervisor of Luke Barrett
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2016 - 2017 | Behavioural responses to, and fitness consequences from, an invasive species are life-stage dependent in a threatened native
fish
Co-supervisor of Timothy Brown
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2016 - 2017 | Barrens of gold: gonad conditioning of an overabundant sea urchin
Co-supervisor of Cassandra Pert
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2014 - 2017 | Do anthropogenic changes to marine ecosystems result in the formation of ecological traps?
Supervisor of Valeriya Komyakova
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2014 - 2017 | Assessing extinction risk in Australia's freshwater biodiversity hotspot
Co-supervisor of Matt Le Feuvre
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2014 - 2016 | Evolution and biogeography of Australian tropical freshwater fish
Co-supervisor of James Shelley
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2013 - 2016 | Early life-history drivers of connectivity in a temperate marine fish metapopulation
Supervisor of Emily Fobert
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2014 - 2015 | Vaterite sagittal otoliths: causes and consequences in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
Co-supervisor of Tormey Reimer
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2014 - 2015 | Assessing sublethal effects from pesticide exposures on a native estuarine goby
Co-supervisor of Jessica French
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2012 - 2015 | Detecting and tracing farmed salmon with enriched stable isotopes
Co-supervisor of Fletcher Warren-Myers
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2011 - 2014 | Metapopulation dynamics of the southern hulafish Trachinops caudimaculatus
Supervisor of John Ford
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2010 - 2014 | Linking freshwater flows, salt wedge dynamics and black bream dispersal in the Mitchell River
Co-supervisor of Eleanor Gee
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2010 - 2013 | The importance of environmental flows to the spawning and larval ecology of black bream (Sparidae: Acanthopagrus butcheri)
Co-supervisor of Joel Williams
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2009 - 2013 | The influence of oceanography on regional phylogeography and larval settlement
Co-supervisor
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2009 - 2012 | What causes recruitment variation in snapper (Chrysophrys auratus, Sparidae)?
Co-supervisor of Hannah Murphy
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2010 - 2011 | Impacts of exposure to estrogen during early development in the bluespot goby
Co-supervisor of Evan Hallein
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2010 - 2011 | Selective tidal stream transport and retention of larval fishes near temperate reefs
Supervisor of Natalie Calder
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2010 - 2011 | Concentrations of estrogens in a Victorian estuary and effects on larval black bream
Co-supervisor of Emma Ferguson
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2010 - 2011 | Shoaling behaviour and growth in the southern hulafish
Supervisor of Sarah Fumei
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2010 - 2011 | Determinants of settlement and post-settlement survival in the southern hulafish
Supervisor of Simon Pahor
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2008 - 2011 | Otolith-based methods to infer demographic connections in a marine metapopulation
Co-supervisor of Philipp Neubauer
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2009 - 2010 | Stable isotope marking of Mosquitofish larvae via maternal transmission
Supervisor of Jessica Smith
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2009 - 2010 | Causes of intra-annual variation in larval mortality in snapper
Co-supervisor
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2007 - 2010 | Patterns in the distribution and abundance of reef fishes in South Eastern Australia
Supervisor of Madhavi Colton
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2007 - 2010 | Omnia mutantur, nihil interit? Variation and its sources in the reef ichthyofauna of Port Phillip
Supervisor of Christian Jung
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2006 - 2010 | The population dynamics of red cod Pseudophycis bachus
Co-supervisor of Jodie Kemp
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2003 - 2009 | Maternal effects on offspring fitness in an Australian native fish, Galaxias maculatus
Supervisor of David Semmens
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2003 - 2006 | An investigation of the causes of variability in settlement of diadromous galaxids
Co-supervisor of Robin Hale
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2005/01/01 - Current | Australian Marine Sciences Association | |
2005/01/01 - Current | Australian Society for Fish Biology | |
2001/01/01 - Current | American Society for Limnology and Oceanography | |
1996/01/01 - Current | International Society for Reef Studies | |
1996/01/01 - Current | Ecological Society of America |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019/07/01 - Current | Executive Committee Member, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne | |
2019/01/01 - Current | Deputy Leader, Victoria Node, Integrated Marine Observing System | |
2019/01/01 - Current | Science Panel Member, Victorian Marine and Coastal Council | |
2015/01/01 - Current | Research and Industry Committee Member, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne | |
2010/01/01 - Current | Science and Research Advisory Committee Member, Phillip Island Nature Park | |
2014/01/01 - 2018/12/31 | Member, Southeast Australia Node Steering Commitee, Integrated Marine Observing System | |
2006/01/01 - 2018/12/31 | Science Panel Member, Victorian Coastal Council | |
2013/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | Executive Committee Member, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne | |
2008/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | Research Higher Degrees Committee Member, University of Melbourne | |
2013/01/01 - 2014/12/01 | Chair, Academic Programs Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne | |
2002/01/01 - 2012/12/31 | Academic Programs Committee Member, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne | |
2009/01/01 - 2010/12/01 | Executive Committee Member, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne | |
2004/01/01 - 2005/12/31 | Science Advisory Group Member, Bunurong Marine National Park | |
2002/01/01 - 2005/12/31 | Publicity Committee Member, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2018/01/01 - 2018/12/31 | Australian Society for Fish Biology Annual Conference | |
2010/01/01 - 2010/12/31 | Australian Society for Fish Biology Annual Conference | |
2010/01/01 - 2010/01/01 | Larval Biology Conference |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2015/01/01 - 2015/12/31 | Port Phillip Bay Science Review | |
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 | Assessing fish responses to habitat restoration in the Yarra River estuary | |
2008/01/01 - 2009/12/31 | Assessing shallow estuarine microhabitat use by benthic fish assemblages: implications for estuary bank restoration | |
2005/01/01 - 2005/12/31 | Reconstructing pollution exposure histories using otolith microchemistry | |
2005/01/01 - 2005/12/31 | Identifying sources or yellowtail kingfish around Lord Howe Island | |
2004/01/01 - 2004/12/31 | Developing a hydrodynamic circulation model for the Lord Howe Island lagoon | |
2003/01/01 - 2003/12/31 | Ecology of freshwater fishes in Melbourne metropolitan waterways |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2013/01/01 - Current | Marine Ecosystems: Ecology and Management | (Bachelor) | |
2010/01/01 - Current | Blue Planet: Intro to Marine Environments | (Bachelor) | |
2005/01/01 - Current | Ecology in Changing Environments | (Bachelor) | |
2001/01/01 - Current | Experimental Marine Biology | (Bachelor) | |
2001/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | Animal Structure and Function | (Bachelor) |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2019/01/01 - Current | Member of the College of Assessors for the New Zealand Endeavour Fund
Member
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2014/01/01 - Current | Scholarships Committee Member, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne | ||
2017/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | Member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Evaluation Panel)
Member
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Australian Research Council, Australia | |
2007/01/01 - 2014/12/31 | Deputy Chair, Graduate Research Scholarships Committee, University of Melbourne | ||
2009/01/01 - 2009/12/31 | Co-Coordinator, MSc Program, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne | ||
2006/01/01 - 2008/12/31 | Co-Coordinator, Honours Program, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne | ||
2004/01/01 - 2007/12/31 | Graduate Research Scholarships Committee Member, University of Melbourne |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2018/01/01 - Current | Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review | |
2012/01/01 - 2016/12/31 | Oecologia (1432-1939) | Springer-Verlag |
2007/01/01 - 2013/12/31 | Coral Reefs (1432-0975) | Springer-Verlag |
Distinctions
Award
2017 | Dyason
The University of Melbourne, Australia
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2007 | Faculty of Science Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
The University of Melbourne, Australia
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1998 | Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
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1997 | Regents Fellowship
University of California Santa Barbara, United States
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1991 | Technical Analysis Corporation Award
Technical Analysis Corporation, United States
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