Marine Biology Research Index

Deep-sea ecology and environmental management

Professor of Marine Biology

School of Biological Sciences

  • Ecology of seabed communities
  • Influence of habitat heterogeneity, productivity, and disturbance on community structure and function
  • Impacts of marine resource use (e.g., aquaculture, fishing, seabed mining)
  • Data, approaches, and tools for the spatial management of the marine environment

Fisheries and ecosystem modelling

Director, Wellington University Coastal Ecology Laboratory
School of Biological Sciences

  • Fish reef ecology
  • Food webs
  • Climate change

Macroalgal Physiology and Ecology

Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology

School of Biological Sciences

  • Ocean acidification
  • Impacts of multiple stressors and environmental variability
  • Macroalgal physiology and ecology
  • Calcification
  • Temperate reef ecology
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Jonathan Gardner

  • Aquaculture and genetics of marine invertebrates
  • Marine reserves and marine conservation
  • Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of New Zealand’s marine biota
  • Shellfish ecophysiology and community ecology

Professor of Ecology
School of Biological Sciences

  • Population dynamics and community ecology marine reef organisms
  • Larval ecology and recruitment
  • Dispersal and connectivity in marine metapopulations
  • Disturbance and recovery of coral reef communities
  • Quantitative assessments of ecological impacts and restorations.

Professor of Marine Biology

School of Biological Sciences

  • Cell biology, physiology and ecology of cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis
  • Coral bleaching
  • Coral disease.

Professor of Biology
School of Biological Sciences

  • Evolution of marine macroalgae
  • Algal aquaculture
  • Genome evolution in algae
  • Algal taxonomy
  • Population genetics of algae.

Sponge Ecology and Marine Conservation

Professor of Marine Biology

School of Biological Sciences

  • Temporal and spatial variability in subtidal rocky ecosystems
  • Marine Protected Area (MPA) ecology
  • Self-recruitment
  • Sponge ecology