Summer fieldwork at geothermal sites in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
In December 2024 and January 2025, we began fieldwork for our new research on whether geothermal areas influence animal and plant...
Top-up PhD scholarship available - Antarctic marine biology
PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO PANDEMIC-RELATED BORDER CLOSURES, THIS SCHOLARSHIP IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR APPLICATION BY INTERNATIONAL...
Lab group has moved to New Zealand! And we have undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships availabl
Exciting news! Early this year (March 2019), I and my lab group moved from ANU in Australia to the Department of Marine Science at the...
Revisiting the earthquake-uplifted coast, New Zealand
We have returned to the uplifted areas along the Canterbury coast, north of Kaikoura, a few times in the 22 months since the large...
Astonishing find: floating organisms can raft >20,000 km and reach Antarctica
Early last year, a Chilean colleague, Dr Erasmo Macaya, was walking along a beach in Antarctica when he stumbled on something incredible....
PhD projects available
I currently have a range of cool PhD projects available, and am always happy to talk to potential students interested in joining my...
The race for new space! How disturbance and dispersal affect spatial patterns of biodiversity.
New findings from short-term experimental and simulated ecological studies [1, 2], and from molecular studies [3-5], demonstrate that...
Studying the biodiversity impacts of earthquakes
Examining uplifted seabed north of Kaikoura, New Zealand, at 5 days (left) and 5 months (right) after the earthquake. Most intertidal...
Marine invaders storm across Antarctica’s ‘moat’, the Antarctic Polar Front
What we found: Our new paper published in Ecography this week shows that kelp rafts, which can carry diverse plants and animals with...
Field trip to Deception Island, Antarctica
In February 2016, I spent a few weeks on Deception Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. I took along PhD student Geoffrey...