Contact
360 Leith St, room 1.N21
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
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
Postgraduate students
Current students
- Will Carome, PhD: Examining the abundance and distribution of parāoa sperm whales at Kaikōura and beyond
- Jemma Bezuidenhout, MSc: Photo-identification mark-recapture to estimate population parameters and site-fidelity of broadnose sevengill sharks in Dusky Sound, Fiordland
- Emily Williams, MSc: Distributions of demographic groups and factors affecting calf survival rates of bottlenose dolphins in Fiordland
- Abby Parker, MSc: Environmental drivers of spatiotemporal variation in the distribution of Hector's dolphin nursery groups at Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
- Sophie van Olst, MSc: The habitat drivers of bottlenose dolphins within Dusky Sound, Fiordland
- Hanna Ravn, MSc: Pakake / NZ sea lion diet analysis – a participatory science approach
Completed students
- Rose Ursem, MSc: Investigating the impacts of cruise ships on habitat use by Hector’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori) in Akaroa Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand
- Daragh Brown, MSc: Associations between seabirds and zooplankton across the sub-tropical frontal zone off Otago, New Zealand
- Whitney Steidl, MSc: Distribution and behaviour of sperm whales over the Otago submarine canyons, New Zealand
- Chloe Corne, MSc: Distribution and habitat use of humpback whales in the Fiordland Marine Area, New Zealand
- Max Harvey, MSc: Ecology and conservation of Hector's dolphins in Porpoise Bay, Southland
- Rosa Edwards, MSc: Quantifying habitat selection and foraging ecology of broadnose sevengill sharks in southern New Zealand
- Maria-Jesus Valdes, PhD: Effects of mussel farms on Hector's dolphins at Banks Peninsula: an ecosystem perspective
- Michael Heldsinger, MSc: Investigating the effect of marine reserves on coastal sharks in southern New Zealand
- Rob Lewis, MSc: Population demographics of sevengill sharks in Paterson Inlet, New Zealand
- Stella Simpson, PGDipSci: Changes in distribution and behaviour of sperm whales in response to the Kaikōura earthquake
- Tamlyn Somerford, MSc: Using photo-ID data to investigate population parameters and social structure of sperm whales visiting Kaikōura
- Jordan Housiaux, MSc: Exploring the murky world of the sevengill shark in southern New Zealand
- 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
- Steph Bennington, PhD: Transferring statistical models between populations and species
- Lindsay Wickman, PhD: Population modelling of Hector's dolphins at Banks Peninsula, NZ.
- Namrata Chand, PhD: Ecosystem Functioning and Role of Soft Sediment Macroalgal Communities
- 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