People

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​​Lab leaders

• Dr Christopher Turbill - Senior Lecturer in Animal Physiological Ecology at the School of Science & Health (Western Sydney University)​

• Prof Justin Welbergen - President of the Australasian Bat Society; head of the Lab of Animal Ecology at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (Western Sydney University)

Postdocs

• 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