Zoology Masters Students
BARRETT, Dan
Email: barda976@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Wildlife Management)
Supervisor: Philip Seddon
Topic: Multiple-scale resource selection of an undescribed urban invertebrate (Onychophohera Peripatopsidae) in Dunedin, New Zealand.
BERGNER, Laura
Email: berla762@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Ian Jamieson
Topic: Resolving founder relationships in a genetically depauperate population of Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) using mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite markers.
BOTTING, Samantha
Email: botsa159@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Alison Cree
Topic: An investigation of techniques to identify sex in New Zealand skinks.
BUSSOLINI, Laura
Email: busla829@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Jonathan Waters
Topic: Spatial: temporal variation in beach-cast Durvillaea antarctica rifts.
COUGHLIN, Cayley
Email: couca762@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Wildlife Management)
Supervisor:
DAVIDSON, Anthony
Email: davan690@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Ecology)
Supervisor: Liz Slooten, Martin Krkosek
FROST, Emily
Email: froem376@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Mark Lokman
Topic: Why so blue? The physiological impacts of ocean acidification on marine invertebrates.
GIBSON, Sophie
Email: gibso235@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Alison Cree
Topic: Basking behaviour of 'Otago large' gecko (Woodworthia "Otago/Southland".
GILLIES, Tasman
Email: gilta885@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Mark Lokman
Topic:
GRAY, Emily
Email: graem050@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Yolanda van Heezik
Topic: The seasonal selection and use of native and exotic vegetation by bush bird species in an urban mixed forest environment.
HITCHCOCK, Michael
Email hitmi861@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Are hungry fish angry fish? The personality consequences of early life starvation in the mosquito fish (Gambusia affinis).
Supervisor: Shinichi Nakagawa
Topic: Evaluating the side effects of feed-restriction and compensatory growth in fish.
JARVIE, Scott
Email: jarsc568@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Wildlife Management)
Supervisor: Alison Cree/Philip Seddon
Topic: Reintroduction of tuatara to Orokonui Ecosanctuary.
JONES, Danielle
Email: jonda872@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Alison Mercer
Topic: Is the ability of bees to react adaptively to the varroa mite modulated by queen mandibular pheromone?
JONES, Michael
Email: jonmi131@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Ian Jamieson
Topic: Variation in predation pressure in mainland robin populations.
KIM, Seo Hyun (Sally)
Email: kimse415@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Alison Mercer
Topic: Varroa-specific hygiene in honeybees.
LARCOMBE, Sara
Email: larsa314@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Yolanda van Heezik
Topic: Responses of the Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) to human presence.
LIM, Nat
Email: limji374@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Shinichi Nakagawa
Topic: Maternal sex allocation and trade-offs in offspring investment.
MCCALLUM, Jonathan
Email: mccjo269@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Ecology)
Supervisor: Gerry Closs/Christoph Matthaei
McNALLY, John
Email: mcnjo269@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Genetics)
Supervisor: Caroline Beck
MOCKETT, Sarah
Email: mocsa421@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor(s): Robert Poulin
Topic: New Zealand lizards and their nematode parasites: biogeography and cophylogeny.
MOORE, GEORGIA
Email: mooge329@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Alison Cree
Topic: Environmental control of paturition in common geckos.
MOORE, Rowan
Email: mooro397@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Ecology)
Supervisor: Gerry Closs
PHAM, Lan
Email: phang097@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Ecology)
Topic: Documenting the responses of native fish and invertebrates to rotenone poisoning, in two tributaries of a New Zealand catchment.
Supervisor: Gerry Closs
QUARRIE, Jamie
Email: quaja557@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Genetics)
Supervisors: Hamish Spencer, Martyn Kennedy
REITH, Abbey
Email: reiab916@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Population dynamics, age structure and spawning of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a large lowland river system
Supervisor: Gerry Closs
SCHADEWINKEL, Robert
Email: schro803@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Ecology)
Topic: Translocation of South Island robins/toutouwai (Petroica australis): an analysis of dispersal pattern, population development and harvest impact
Supervisor: Ian Jamieson
SHAW, Emma
Email: shaem454@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Wildlife Management)
Topic: Improving captive management techniques for Leiopelma archeyi and Leipelma hochstetteri through ecological and behavioural research.
Supervisor: Phil Bishop
SOMERVILLE, Gayle
Email somga457@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Martin Krkosek
Topic: Exploring harvest regulations of the New Zealand abalone (Haliotis iris) via population modelling.
TABAK, Josh
Email: tobjo174@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Ecology)
Supervisor: Gerry Closs
TAYLOR, Matt
Email: tayma987@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Wildlife Management)
Supervisor: Bruce Robertson
Topic: Genetic population structure of the New Zealand sea lion: implications for species management.
THOMAS, Harriet
Email: thoha858@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Robert Poulin
Topic: Ecological implications of parasite-induced malformation in young galaxiids.
TOSH, Eleanor
Email: tosel648@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Alison Mercer
Topic: Caste specific learning in honeybees (Apis mellifera).
TRICKEY, Jenny
Email: trije947@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Jon Waters
Topic: Phylogeography and molecular systematics of the rafting aeolid nudibranch Fiona pinnata (Eschscholtz, 1831).
VAN DER HORST, Sam
Email: vansa027@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Supervisor: Mark Lokman
WAKERLEY, Georgia
Email: wakge725@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Genetics)
Supervisor: Martyn Kennedy/Hamish Spencer
WATTS, Jim
Email: watji258@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Post-release monitoring of reintroduced buff weka (Gallirallus australis hectori) to mainland New Zealand using GPS/GSM-tags.
Supervisor: Phil Seddon
YOUNG, Melanie
Email: youme027@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Wildlife Management)
Supervisor(s): Philip Seddon/Yolanda van Heezik
Topic: Marine-based stochasticy and the impact upon yellow-eyed penguins on mainland New Zealand; does it drive annual regional productivty?