Contact
Office 310 Castle Street, room 211a
Tel +64 3 479 8304
Email will.rayment@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
BA Oxford
MSc University College London
PhD University of Otago
Research interests
- Ecology and conservation biology of cetaceans
- Capture-recapture methods and analyses
- Species-habitat relationships
- Efficacy of Marine Protected Areas and MPA networks
Will is also a member of the Coastal People: Southern Skies collaboration that connects communities with world-leading, cross-discipline research to rebuild coastal ecosystems.
Coastal People: Southern Skies
He Kitenga: Auckland Islands: Baleen barometers outlines recent work combining aerial photography and computer software to measure the condition of southern right whales.
Teaching
- ECOL 111 Ecology and Conservation of Diversity
- MARI 112 Marine Biology: The Living Ocean
- MARI 302 Biology and Behaviour of Marine Vertebrates (course co-ordinator)
- MARI 401 Advanced Methods in Marine Science
- MARI 429 Coastal Marine Environment (course co-ordinator)
- MARI 431 Antarctic and Southern Ocean Science
- ZOOL 418 Conservation Biology of Marine Mammals
Postgraduate students
Current students
- Steph Bennington, PhD: Transferring statistical models between populations and species
- Namrata Chand, PhD: Ecosystem Functioning and Role of Soft Sediment Macroalgal Communities
- Leah Crowe, PhD: Variability and vulnerability of the critically endangered Fiordland bottlenose dolphin
- Nicholas Daudt, PhD: Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of seabird assemblages in Australasia, a world hotspot of seabird diversity
- Stella Simpson, MSc: Investigating the effects of oceanic conditions on sperm whales and their prey at Kaikōura
- Hanna Ravn, MSc: Pakake / NZ sea lion diet analysis – a participatory science approach
- Lindsay Wickman, PhD: Population modelling of Hector's dolphins at Banks Peninsula, NZ.
Completed students
- David Johnston PhD: Sentinels of the Southern Ocean: southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) as indicators of oceanic productivity
- José Emilio Trujillo Moyano, PhD: Insights into neonate reef sharks' vulnerability to predation: a behavioural, physiological and ecological approach
- Gaby Keeler-May, PhD: Undaria pinnatifida management and control in Southern New Zealand
- Moss Thompson, MSc: Pup survival of the New Zealand sea lion on the Otago Coast
- Hannah Williams, MSc: Abundance and distribution of Hector's dolphins in Otago and effectiveness of current protection measures