A5025861774- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine and fisheries research
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
Integrated Marine Observing System
2022
University of Tasmania
2022
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
2016-2020
University of Technology Sydney
2016-2020
University of Bologna
2012-2014
Zooplankton are the intermediate trophic level between phytoplankton and fish, an important component of carbon nutrient cycles, accounting for a large proportion energy transfer to pelagic fishes deep ocean. Given zooplankton's importance, models need adequately represent zooplankton dynamics. A major obstacle, though, is lack model assessment. Here we try stimulate assessment in by filling three gaps. The first that many observationalists unfamiliar with biogeochemical, ecosystem,...
Abstract Pyrosomes are efficient grazers that can form dense aggregations. Their clearance rates among the highest of any zooplankton grazer, and they rapidly repackage what consume into thousands fecal pellets per hour. In recent years, pyrosome swarms have been found outside their natural geographical range; however, environmental drivers promote these still unknown. During austral spring 2017 a Pyrosoma atlanticum swarm was sampled in Tasman Sea. Depth‐stratified sampling during day night...
Abstract. Since the mid-1990s, Australia's Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has been developing a biogeochemical (BGC) model for coupling with hydrodynamic sediment application in estuaries, coastal waters shelf seas. The suite of coupled models is referred to as CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS) applied at tens locations around Australian continent. At mature point BGC model's development, this paper presents full mathematical description, well links...
Mesoscale eddies in the south west Pacific region are prominent ocean features that represent distinctive environments for phytoplankton. Here we examine seasonal plankton dynamics associated with averaged cyclonic and anticyclonic (CE ACE, respectively) off eastern Australia. We do this through building climatologies of mixed layer depth surface chlorophyll-a both CE ACE by combining remotely sensed sea height (TOPEX/Poseidon, Envisat, Jason-1, OSTM/Jason-2), colour (GlobColour) situ...
Mesoscale eddies drive variability in phytoplankton functional trait composition and primary productivity (PP) relative to adjacent waters. Offshore waters southeast Australia are subject substantial mesoscale that form when the East Australian Current (EAC) travels poleward along coast, forming distinctive habitats upper ocean. Eddies provide an important enrichment mechanism nitrogen-limited of Tasman Sea, yet there is limited knowledge PP within cold- warm-core region how physico-chemical...
Abstract. Since the mid 1990s, Australia's Commonwealth Science Industry and Research Organisation (CSIRO) has developed a biogeochemical (BGC) model for coupling with hydrodynamic sediment application in estuaries, coastal waters shelf seas. The suite of coupled models is referred to as CSIRO Environmental Modelling Suite (EMS) been applied at tens locations around Australian continent. At mature point BGC model's development, this paper presents full mathematical description, well links...