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Meet the people working to make a difference

Core team

Adam Davey
Adam is our taxonomist; he knows all our marine bugs and beasties. Contact Adam if you want to find out more about the macrofauna communities around aquaculture sites.
Alex Coutts
Alex works in the lab and in the field and is our environmental DNA specialist. Contact Alex if you want to find out more about how eDNA can be used in aquaculture monitoring.
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 dive team and specialises in the ecology and identification of benthic invertebrate communities, especially in seagrass habitats. Contact Caillin if you’d like to know more about how we use this information in environmental monitoring.
Camille White
Camille heads up our team and is our main person for all things rocky reef. Contact Camille if you are interested in the interactions between aquaculture and rocky reefs.
James (Jimmy) Hortle
Jimmy is a PhD student studying oxygen remediation in Macquarie Harbour. Jimmy has extensive experience with our team as a laboratory and fieldwork specialist. Contact Jimmy if you would like to learn more about oxygenation work in Macquarie Harbour.
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 key diver and fieldwork specialist for the rocky reef team. Contact Sam if you have any questions about how we collect our rocky reef data.
Scott Hadley
Scott is the brains behind our scientific modelling. Contact Scott if you are interested to find out more about modelling the interactions between aquaculture and the environment.
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