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Ecological management
- Clothes, fibres and filters that reduce pollution by micro and nano debris
- In Bygone Dives: Exploring the use of recreational SCUBA diving photographs
- Restoring oyster reefs to NSW
- Living Seawalls
- Operation Posidonia: Healing old wounds by restoring an endangered seagrass in boat mooring scars
- Operation Crayweed: restoring Sydney’s underwater forests
- Project Restore: restoration of seascapes in Sydney Harbour
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Marine biotechnology and aquaculture
- Antibiotic resistance in the marine environment
- Priming fish with microbial communities to enhance health and digestibility of sustainable feeds
- Bio-prospecting marine microbial diversity for new antimicrobial drugs and bioactives
- Improving technologies for inland aquaculture in Papua New Guinea
- Improving the sustainability of rice-shrimp farming systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
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Anthropogenic and climate change impacts and interactions
- Ecology and impacts of marine invaders
- Impacts of multiple stressors on marine communities
- Impacts of urbanisation on the diversity and functioning of coastal systems
- In the spotlight: impacts of artificial light at night on the marine environment
- Linking functional diversity to stress thresholds for coastal conservation
- Effects of climate change on Shark Bay microbial mats
- Adapting to coastal tropicalisation: ecosystem function implications
- Global threats to ocean forests: understanding impacts of heatwaves, herbivores and diseases in kelp ecosystems
- How to make reliable high-resolution future projections for coastal regions
- Marine Heatwaves in a changing world
- Clothes, fibres and filters that reduce pollution by micro and nano debris
- Coastal, regional and global oceanography
- Fisheries and coastal resource management
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Integrated micro-/macro-biology and ecology
- Coastal microbial observatories
- Functional diversity and redundancy of marine communities
- Microbial contribution to life in the deep sea
- The dynamics of evolution: How horizontal gene transfer drives the diversification and adaptation of complex, bacterial communities
- Probiotics for the ocean – how microbes can improve the health and performance of macroalgae
- Function and application of novel proteins from sponge symbionts
- Understanding disease in marine seaweeds: from molecular mechanisms to ecological consequences
- Understanding the role of antibiotic producing bacteria in the seaweed algal holobiont
- Wake interference by swimming crocodiles
- The effect of microbial diversity vs function on marine holobionts
- Understanding plant soil feedbacks control interactions between marine macrophytes
- Do microbes facilitate the range expansion of tropical fish into temperate systems?
- Science communication and outreach
- Solutions for estuarine and coastal stressors lab (SEACS Lab)
- Coastal and regional Oceanography lab
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Our research
Ecological management
- Clothes, fibres and filters that reduce pollution by micro and nano debris
- In Bygone Dives: Exploring the use of recreational SCUBA diving photographs
- Restoring oyster reefs to NSW
- Living Seawalls
- Operation Posidonia: Healing old wounds by restoring an endangered seagrass in boat mooring scars
- Operation Crayweed: restoring Sydney’s underwater forests
- Project Restore: restoration of seascapes in Sydney Harbour
Marine biotechnology and aquaculture
- Antibiotic resistance in the marine environment
- Priming fish with microbial communities to enhance health and digestibility of sustainable feeds
- Bio-prospecting marine microbial diversity for new antimicrobial drugs and bioactives
- Improving technologies for inland aquaculture in Papua New Guinea
- Improving the sustainability of rice-shrimp farming systems in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Anthropogenic and climate change impacts and interactions
- Ecology and impacts of marine invaders
- Impacts of multiple stressors on marine communities
- Impacts of urbanisation on the diversity and functioning of coastal systems
- In the spotlight: impacts of artificial light at night on the marine environment
- Linking functional diversity to stress thresholds for coastal conservation
- Effects of climate change on Shark Bay microbial mats
- Adapting to coastal tropicalisation: ecosystem function implications
- Global threats to ocean forests: understanding impacts of heatwaves, herbivores and diseases in kelp ecosystems
- How to make reliable high-resolution future projections for coastal regions
- Marine Heatwaves in a changing world
- Clothes, fibres and filters that reduce pollution by micro and nano debris
Integrated micro-/macro-biology and ecology
- Coastal microbial observatories
- Functional diversity and redundancy of marine communities
- Microbial contribution to life in the deep sea
- The dynamics of evolution: How horizontal gene transfer drives the diversification and adaptation of complex, bacterial communities
- Probiotics for the ocean – how microbes can improve the health and performance of macroalgae
- Function and application of novel proteins from sponge symbionts
- Understanding disease in marine seaweeds: from molecular mechanisms to ecological consequences
- Understanding the role of antibiotic producing bacteria in the seaweed algal holobiont
- Wake interference by swimming crocodiles
- The effect of microbial diversity vs function on marine holobionts
- Understanding plant soil feedbacks control interactions between marine macrophytes
- Do microbes facilitate the range expansion of tropical fish into temperate systems?
- Study with us
- Giving
- News
- Opportunities

Marine debris is a global environmental concern. Threats from marine debris are understood conceptually, but their spatial and temporal distributions are largely unknown.
Without this knowledge, we cannot prioritise management actions or predict future change. This project will leverage Australia’s largest marine debris database (AMDD) to create risk maps of marine debris threats around Australia. It will develop novel methodologies to estimate threats for marine debris items and examine the distributions of threats in the context of oceanography and other influential forces. Outcomes will directly inform national and international management of this global problem.
Supervisor:
Ideal candidate:
The candidate will have a strong commitment to making a difference in the world with demonstrated academic excellence in environmental science relative to career-stage. The ideal candidate will have strong understanding of experimental design in ecology or environmental science. Statistical analyses and programming skills (preferably R) are desirable. They must be willing to conduct both laboratory and field experiments, and travel for remote fieldwork. A background in oceanography and modelling is desirable.