People
Lab leaders
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Postdocs
PhD Students
MRes/Honours Students
Lab Associates
Visitors
Allumni
- Dr Nicholas Wu - Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Topic: Vulnerabilty of Australian bats to white-nose syndrome
- Dr Jessica Meade - Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Topic: Movement ecology of flying-foxes
PhD Students
- Samantha Yabsley - PhD Candidate (Western Sydney University; supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr Christopher Turbill, Dr Jessica Meade, Prof Michael Kearney). Topic: The impacts of extreme heat events on Australian flying-foxes
- Ram Mohan - PhD Candidate (Western Sydney University; supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr Jessica Meade) Topic: A cross-continental comparison of drivers of flying-fox urbanisation
- Tomás Villada-Cadavid - PhD Candidate (Western Sydney University; supervisors: Dr Christopher Turbill, Dr Lindy Lumsden, A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr Nicholas Wu). Topic: Vulnerability of Australian bats to white-nose syndrome
- Melissa Walker - PhD Candidate (Western Sydney University; supervisors: Dr Christopher Turbill, Dr Jessica Meade, A/Prof Justin Welbergen). Topic: Flying-fox phyisology and energetics
- Annabel Dorrestein - PhD Candidate (Western Sydney University; supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr David Phalen, Dr John Martin, Dr Karrie Rose, Dr David Westcott). Topic: The social organisation of the Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus melanotus natalis)
MRes/Honours Students
- Sienna Grady - MRes student (Western Sydney University); supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr Jessica Meade, A/Prof Matthias Boer. Topic: Impacts of Australia's recent megafires on the grey-headed flying-fox
- Kate Bojarojc - MRes student (Western Sydney University); supervisors: Dr Christopher Turbill, A/Prof Justin Welbergen. Topic: Developing acoustic methods to monitor populations of cave-roosting bats
- Victoria Smith - MRes student (Western Sydney University); supervisors: Dr Christopher Turbill, Dr Leroy Gonsalves, Dr Brad Law. Topic: Mapping bat activity in human-modified landscapes using high-density acoustic grids
Lab Associates
- Dr Kyle Armstrong - Affiliate Associate Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Interests: molecular systematics, conservation genetics, genomics, bioacoustics, and conservation of bats. Former President of the Australasian Bat Society
- Dr Brad Law - Principal Research Scientist in the Forest Science Centre, NSW DPI.
- Dr John Martin - Research Scientist at Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Sydney. Researching wildlife adaptation to urban environments, citizen science in schools, kids connection to nature, and post-fire wildlife provisioning. Interests: Urban ecology (flying-foxes, ibises, cockatoos)
Visitors
- None at present
Allumni
- Samantha Yabsley - MRes student (University of Western Sydney); supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr Jessica Meade. Topic: Drivers of flying-fox urbanisation
- Alice Barratt - MRes student (Western Sydney University; supervisors: Dr Christopher Turbill, Dr Leroy Gonsalves, Dr Brad Law. Topic: Seasonal energetics and thermal ecology of Australia's fishing bat, Myotis macropus.
- Laura Pulscher - PhD Candidate (The University of Sydney; supervisors: A/Prof David Phalen, Dr Karrie Rose, A/Prof Justin Welbergen). Topic: Investigating the role of infectious, nutritional and toxicological disease in the decline of the Critically Endangered Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus melanotus natalis)
- Nicola Hanrahan - PhD Candidate (Western Sydney University; supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr Christopher Turbill, Dr Kyle Armstrong). Topic: The physiological and behavioural ecology of the Ghost Bat: implications for conservation and management
- Himali Ratnayake - PhD Candidate (The University of Melbourne; supervisors: A/Prof Michael Kearney, A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr Christopher Turbill, Dr Rodney Van Der Ree). Topic: Climatic affects and the roles of behaviour, physiology and morphology on the heat budgets of the Australian flying-foxes (Pteropus spp.)
- Christopher Todd - PhD Candidate (Western Sydney University; supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr David Westcott, Dr John Martin, Dr Karrie Rose). Topic: The ecology and conservation of the Critically Endangered Christmas Island flying-fox
- Eliane McCarthy - MRes student (University of Western Sydney); supervisors: A/Prof Justin Welbergen, Dr John Martin, A/Prof Matthias Boer. Topic: Remote sensing of Australian flying-fox camps.
- Elisabeth Timmiss - Honours student (University of New South Wales; supervisors: Prof Richard Kingsford, Dr Nick Murray, Dr John Martin, A/Prof J. Welbergen). Topic: The determinants of the spatiotemporal distribution of flying-fox roosts in Australia.
- Benjamin Sloggett - MRes student (Western Sydney University; supervisors: Dr Christopher Turbill, A/PRof J. Welbergen. Topic: Thermal physiology and seasonal energetics of bent-winged bats