our Team

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.

Anna Darby

Anna is a key diver and field work specialist on the rocky reef and seagrass teams. Contact Anna if you have any questions about field collection of rocky reef and seagrass data.

Ben Quigley

Ben is a key diver and fieldwork specialist, collecting data on soft sediment habitats. Contact Ben if you would like to know more about how our soft sediment data is collected.

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 is our main person for all things rocky reef. Contact Camille if you are interested in the interactions between aquaculture and rocky reefs.

Charlotte McAneney

Charley is a key member of our dive team and specialises in the ecology of rocky reefs and seaweeds, especially the red seaweed, Asparagopsis armata. Contact Charley if you have any questions about rocky reef biodiversity and the environmental monitoring of Asparagopsis armata.

David Moreno

David is our statistics and programming wizard. Contact David if you want more information on how we use statistics and programming within our research.

James (Jimmy) Hortle

Jimmy is our main lab man and a key fieldwork specialist; he processes the samples collected in the field. Contact Jimmy if you would like to know more about how our samples are analysed.

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 a key member of our dive team for rocky reef and seagrass projects and leads the data analysis for our reef reporting. Contact Megan if you have any questions about rocky reef biodiversity.

Myriam Lacharite

Myriam is our mapping expert. Contact Myriam if you would like to find out more about how we use mapping data within our research.

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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our Team

Meet the people working to make a difference

Core team

Aquaculture Environment Team

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