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Adam Davey

Adam is our taxonomist; he has a passion for all marine invertebrates, particularly polychaetes and isopods. Understanding and analysing how marine invertebrates respond to human impacts is a key part of his work with the Aquaculture Environment Team. Contact Adam if you want to find out more about the macrofauna communities around aquaculture sites.

Alex Coutts

Alex is a technician as part of our field and laboratory teams. Alex's specialist skills include scientific diving and the use of DNA technologies for biodiversity monitoring. Contact Alex to find out more about how we use eDNA for environmental monitoring of aquaculture.

Andrew Pender

Andrew is our overarching fieldwork manager, keeping the data coming in. Contact Andrew if you would like to know more about the logistics of our fieldwork.

Caillin Wise

Caillin is a key member of our field team, with broad experience across rocky reef and soft sediment ecosystems. Her work focuses on understanding how these environments respond to human activities such as aquaculture and associated remediation strategies. Contact Caillin to learn more about how this research supports environmental monitoring and management.

Camille White

Camille heads up our research team and specialises in aquaculture environment interactions and coastal ecosystem health. Her research explores how all forms of coastal aquaculture influence nutrient dynamics, trophic pathways and biodiversity in marine systems, with a particular focus on reef habitats and seaweed communities. She leads and contributes to multidisciplinary projects aimed at developing sustainable aquaculture practices and innovative monitoring tools.

James (Jimmy) Hortle

Jimmy is a PhD student and Junior Research Fellow exploring artificial oxygenation as a remediation tool in coastal systems. His research focuses on ecosystem responses across ecology and biogeochemistry, with a background in using benthic communities to assess aquaculture impacts. Contact Jimmy for information on oxygenation trials and benthic monitoring.

Jeff Ross

Jeff is the man who keeps us all on track and oversees all our research projects. Contact Jeff if you would like to understand more about interactions between aquaculture and soft sediment environments.

Megan Hartog

Megan is our in-house report writer/editor and takes care of our website. Contact Megan if you have any website questions or would like help to access our publications and information.

Nigel Keeley

Nigel is a benthic ecologist with broad experience researching, monitoring and managing ecological effects from sea-based aquaculture installations. Specialties include optimisation and advancement of monitoring tools and developing indicators including applications of eDNA. Contact Nigel for issues relating to the environmental footprint of finfish aquaculture.

Robin Cappaert

Robin is a PhD student who studies biofouling communities associated with offshore salmon aquaculture in southeast Tasmania. He is interested in how these communities can be effectively monitored in a real-time and semi-automated way. Contact Robin if you want to learn more about image collection and processing.

Sam Lemm

Sam is a marine ecologist specialising in rocky reef data collection, using his expertise as a diver and vessel coxswain to conduct research in diverse marine environments. He applies advanced field techniques to monitor ecosystems, supporting sustainable marine management. Contact Sam for expertise in marine field data collection and ecosystem monitoring.

Scott Hadley

Scott is a biogeochemical modeller. His work involves developing and applying models to investigate interactions between aquaculture and the marine environment. Scott has extensive experience in numerical modelling, dynamical systems analysis and more recently in statistical modelling and machine learning. Contact Scott if you are interested to find out more about modelling in this challenging environment.

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