Intern Charlotte Klempin
The project recently hosted Charlotte Klempin, a Wildlife and Conservation Biology
student from La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Charlotte helped in the field during September 2014.
She is currently volunteering in other marine projects and will pursue her
career in marine studies.
Postgraduate Rhian Evans
Rhian is from the UK where she completed a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology and a Master of Research from the University of Southampton. Her Master of research examined the differences in population structure and reproduction between two deep sea assemblages of ophiuroids under different productivity regimes in the southern Indian Ocean. Since then she has volunteered with a Shark and Turtle conservation organization in Ecuador. Rhian is currently working as an intern in our project ‘Supporting Management of Listed and Rare Species’. She is assisting on all parts of the project including field work, preparation, as well as working in the laboratory on the close-kin component of the project. Rhian is also undertaking her own research project on generation lengths in chondrichthyans which will result in a report to the IUCN Shark Specialist Group in assist in the application of the Red List of Threatened Species categories and criteria.
Master Candidates Mathilde Le Baut & Alexandre Brame
The NERP Marine project is hosting Mathilde Le Baut and Alexandre Brame, two Masters students at Montpellier SupAgro (France), centre for higher education in agricultural science.
Mathilde and Alexandre are assisting with field work from January to May 2014, and working on a project on Pandarid copepods parasitic on whaler sharks.
They are also working on another project on the pigmentation of Glyphis glyphis pectorals fins.
Master Candidate Karen Devitt
The NERP project is hosting Karen Devitt, a Resource and Environmental Management
Master student from Dalhousie University.
Karen has assisted with field work during the 2013 dry season.
She is also working on a project that is investigating the representation of sawfish
within Australia’s current protected areas.
PhD Candidate Kate Buckley
Kate started a PhD entitled 'Public aquariums and conservation of the Freshwater sawfish
Pristis pristis: impacts and benefits of keeping a threatened species' in July 2012.
This multidisciplinary project combines ecological and social science components to consider
the impacts and benefits of displaying Freshwater Sawfish in public aquaria... read more.
Master Candidate Sebastian Baust
Our project hosted Sebastian Baust, a Masters student from Oxford University.
He helped in the field during the months of July and August 2012 and produced a thesis
entitled 'The significance of the Victoria River as habitat for the Critically Endangered Freshwater Sawfish
(Pristis microdon)'. He successfuly graduated on the 21st of September 2012. Congratulations Seb.