Head of Department
Kaiawhina – Māori Student Support Liaison
Contact details
Office 310 Castle Street, room 103
Tel +64 3 479 7463
Mob +64 21 279 7463
Email miles.lamare@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
BSc(Hons), PhD(Otago)
Research interests
I have research interests in marine ecology, population biology, marine invertebrate biology, and the ecology and physiology of marine invertebrate larval stages. My expertise is in marine ecology, ecophysiology and population biology of marine taxa. I apply this knowledge in extensive research on the response of marine species to climate change, with international collaborations addressing important issues such polar species responses to warming, coral reef decline, species range shifts and adaptative potential in marine species.
Courses
- MARI 112 Marine Biology: The Living Ocean
- MARI 202 Ecology and Biology of Marine Invertebrates
- MARI 301 Marine Ecology and Ecosystems
- MARI 401 Advanced Methods in Marine Science
- MARI 431 Antarctic and Southern Ocean Science
Current and recent research projects
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2019–2026
Principle Investigator – Antarctic Science Platform: Ross Sea Ecosystem Dynamics (2019-2025): Responses of the Ross Sea Region ecosystem to 2°C of warming. (MBIE funded) -
2021–2022
Associate Investigator – How vulnerable are Antarctica's coasts to colonisation (Marsden funded) -
2018–2022
Associate Investigator – Understanding the cellular and molecular drivers governing a unique whole body regeneration phenomenon in a chordate model (Marsden funded) -
2021–2022
Principle Investigator – University of Otago Research Grant: Sentinels of change: biodiversity and biosecurity monitoring using environmental DNA from natural samplers (University of Otago funded) -
2016–2018
Transgenerational plasticity (TGP) in polar marine invertebrates as a mechanism of adapting to a warmer more acidic coastal Antarctic (New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute funded) -
2018
International collaborator – Effects of ocean acidification and warming on sea urchin development. In collaboration with Associate Professor Sam Dupont, University of Gothenburg. Funded by the Royal Society of Sweden
Postgraduate students
Current students
- Scott Roche-Dick, MSc: Transgenerational adaptation to ocean warming and marine heat waves in the Antarctic Sea Star, Odontaster validus.
- Frances Perry, MSc: Will New Zealand kelp associated invertebrates survive in a warmer Antarctica.
- Georgia Taylor, MSc: Arm generation in the brittle star under changing temperatures.
- Roberta Noon, MSc: Physiological acclimation of the Antarctica sea star to climate change.
- Jessica Moffitt, PhD: Temperate and polar marine communities' responses to ocean warming: An assessment using in situ environmental manipulations.
- Pamelo Olmedo Rojas, PhD: Environmental drivers of evolution for Antarctic terrestrial organisms.
- Scott Lockwood, PhD: Modelling the marine methane paradox under phytoplankton bloom conditions.
Completed students
- Paulo F Lagos, PhD: Investigating the response of the krill Nyctiphanes australis (Euphausiacea) to stress caused by environmental change: a dynamic energy budget approach.
- Uru-Manuka Williams, MSc: The effects of sedimentation on the physiology of NZ living Brachiopods.
- Tom Massué, MSc: Effect of temperature rise (+2°C and +4°C) on a benthic assemblage community in New Zealand marine shallows: an in-situ approach.
- Rebecca Clarke, PhD: A whole new body in only 8 days.
Publications
Jeunen, G.-J., Cane, J., Lamare, M., & Gemmell, N. (2023). Biodiversity monitoring through environmental DNA obtained from filter-feeding organisms. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Moffitt, J., Jeunen, G.-J., Ferreira, S., Gemmell, N., Fraser, C., Barnes, D., … Lamare, M. (2023). A snapshot into future warming: In situ warming drives big changes in Benthic communities. Proceedings of the 1st Australian & New Zealand Environmental DNA (eDNA) Conference: Innovation & Application. Retrieved from https://ednaconference.com.au
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Temiz, B., Clarke, R. M., Page, M., Lamare, M., & Wilson, M. J. (2023). Identification and characterisation of Botrylloides (Styelidae) species from Aotearoa New Zealand coasts. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2023.2215534
Journal - Research Article
Olmedo-Rojas, P., Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M., Turnbull, J., Terauds, A., Gemmell, N., & Fraser, C. I. (2023). Soil environmental DNA metabarcoding in low-biomass regions requires protocol optimization: A case study in Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 35(1), 15-30. doi: 10.1017/S0954102022000384
Journal - Research Article
Beardsley Christiansen, A., Taylor, G., Lamare, M., & Byrne, M. (2023). The added costs of winter ocean warming for metabolism, arm regeneration and survival in the brittle star, Ophionereis schayeri (Müller & Troschel, 1844). Journal of Experimental Biology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1242/jeb.244613
Journal - Research Article
Burritt, D. J., & Lamare, M. D. (2016). The cellular responses of marine algae and invertebrates to ultraviolet radiation, alone and in combination with other common abiotic stressors. In M. Solan & N. M. Whiteley (Eds.), Stressors in the marine environment. (pp. 117-134). Oxford University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Lamare, M., Burritt, D., & Lister, K. (2011). Ultraviolet radiation and echinoderms: Past, present and future perspectives. In M. Lesser (Ed.), Advances in marine biology (Vol. 59). (pp. 145-187). Oxford, UK: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385536-7.00004-2
Chapter in Book - Research
Beardsley Christiansen, A., Taylor, G., Lamare, M., & Byrne, M. (2023). The added costs of winter ocean warming for metabolism, arm regeneration and survival in the brittle star, Ophionereis schayeri (Müller & Troschel, 1844). Journal of Experimental Biology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1242/jeb.244613
Journal - Research Article
Heenan, S. D., Michael, K. P., Smart, D. C., Lokman, P. M., & Lamare, M. D. (2023). Reproductive changes in Foveaux Strait Ostrea chilensis, Southern New Zealand, after Bonamia exitiosa epidemics. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 57(2), 242-260. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2021.1982729
Journal - Research Article
Jeunen, G.-J., Cane, J. S., Ferreira, S., Strano, F., von Ammon, U., Cross, H., Day, R., … Ellis, K., Urban, L., Pearson, N., Olmedo-Rojas, P., Kardailsky, A., Gemmell, N. J., & Lamare, M. (2023). Assessing the utility of marine filter feeders for environmental DNA (eDNA) biodiversity monitoring. Molecular Ecology Resources. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13754
Journal - Research Article
Olmedo-Rojas, P., Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M., Turnbull, J., Terauds, A., Gemmell, N., & Fraser, C. I. (2023). Soil environmental DNA metabarcoding in low-biomass regions requires protocol optimization: A case study in Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 35(1), 15-30. doi: 10.1017/S0954102022000384
Journal - Research Article
Temiz, B., Clarke, R. M., Page, M., Lamare, M., & Wilson, M. J. (2023). Identification and characterisation of Botrylloides (Styelidae) species from Aotearoa New Zealand coasts. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2023.2215534
Journal - Research Article
Byrne, M., Gall, M. L., Campbell, H., Lamare, M. D., & Holmes, S. P. (2022). Staying in place and moving in space: Contrasting larval thermal sensitivity explains distributional changes of sympatric sea urchin species to habitat warming. Global Change Biology, 28, 3040-3053. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16116
Journal - Research Article
Garbelli, C., Angiolini, L., Posenato, R., Harper, E. M., Lamare, M. D., Shi, G. R., & Shen, S.-Z. (2022). Isotopic time-series (δ13C and δ18O) obtained from the columnar layer of Permian brachiopod shells are a reliable archive of seasonal variations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 607, 111264. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111264
Journal - Research Article
Jeunen, G.-J., von Ammon, U., Cross, H., Ferreira, S., Lamare, M., Day, R., Treece, J., … Gemmell, N. J., & Stanton, J.-A. L. (2022). Moving environmental DNA (eDNA) technologies from benchtop to the field using passive sampling and PDQeX extraction. Environmental DNA, 4, 1420-1433. doi: 10.1002/edn3.356
Journal - Research Article
Lagos, P. F., Curtsdotter, A., Agüera, A., Sabadel, A. J. M., Burritt, D. J., & Lamare, M. D. (2022). Modelling the effects of food limitation and temperature on the growth and reproduction of the krill Nyctiphanes australis. Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science, 268, 107785. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107785
Journal - Research Article
Lagos, P. F., Curtsdotter, A., Agüera, A., Sabadel, A. J. M., Burritt, D. J., & Lamare, M. D. (2022). Fast changes in the bioenergetic balance of krill in response to environmental stress. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 782524. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.782524
Journal - Research Article
Uthicke, S., Robson, B., Doyle, J. R., Logan, M., Pratchett, M. S., & Lamare, M. (2022). Developing an effective marine eDNA monitoring: eDNA detection at pre-outbreak densities of corallivorous seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris). Science of the Total Environment, 851, 158143. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158143
Journal - Research Article
Donlon, E. M. Y., McKinnon, J. F., & Lamare, M. D. (2021). Egg laying and embryo development of Octopus huttoni in response to temperature and season. Marine & Freshwater Research, 72, 638-646. doi: 10.1071/MF20184
Journal - Research Article
Espinel-Velasco, N., Lamare, M., Kluibenschedl, A., Moss, G., & Cummings, V. (2021). Ocean acidification induces carry-over effects on the larval settlement of the New Zealand abalone, Haliotis iris. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 78(1), 340-348. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsaa086
Journal - Research Article
Espinel-Velasco, N., Tobias-Hünefeldt, S. P., Karelitz, S. E., Hoffmann, L. J., Morales, S. E., & Lamare, M. D. (2021). Reduced seawater pH alters marine biofilms with impacts for marine polychaete larval settlement. Marine Environmental Research, 167, 105291. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2021.105291
Journal - Research Article
Kluibenschedl, A., Lamare, M. D., Nelson, W. A., Barr, N. G., & Hepburn, C. D. (2021). Low irradiance amplifies negative effects of ocean acidification on recruitment of coralline algae communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 674, 103-113. doi: 10.3354/meps13829
Journal - Research Article
Richardson, C. R., Burritt, D. J., Allan, B. J. M., & Lamare, M. D. (2021). Microplastic ingestion induces asymmetry and oxidative stress in larvae of the sea urchin Pseudechinus huttoni. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 168, 112369. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112369
Journal - Research Article
Smart, D. C., Heenan, S., Lokman, P. M., & Lamare, M. D. (2021). Seasonal reproduction of the blue mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from two locations in southern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 55(2), 311-325. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2020.1757472
Journal - Research Article
Thomas, L. J., Liggins, L., Banks, S. C., Beheregaray, L. B., Liddy, M., McCulloch, G. A., Waters, J. M., … Cumming, R. A., & Lamare, M. D. (2021). The population genetic structure of the urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii in New Zealand with links to Australia. Marine Biology, 168, 138. doi: 10.1007/s00227-021-03946-4
Journal - Research Article
Uthicke, S., Patel, F., Petrik, C., Watson, S.-A., Karelitz, S. E., & Lamare, M. D. (2021). Cross-generational response of a tropical sea urchin to global change and a selection event in a 43-month mesocosm study. Global Change Biology, 27, 3448-3462. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15657
Journal - Research Article
Espinel-Velasco, N., Agüera, A., & Lamare, M. (2020). Sea urchin larvae show resilience to ocean acidification at the time of settlement and metamorphosis. Marine Environmental Research, 159, 104977. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104977
Journal - Research Article
Houlihan, E. P., Espinel-Velasco, N., Cornwall, C. E., Pilditch, C. A., & Lamare, M. D. (2020). Diffusive boundary layers and ocean acidification: Implications for sea urchin settlement and growth. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 577562. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.577562
Journal - Research Article
Jeunen, G.-J., Lamare, M. D., Knapp, M., Spencer, H. G., Taylor, H. R., Stat, M., … Gemmell, N. J. (2020). Water stratification in the marine biome restricts vertical environmental DNA (eDNA) signal dispersal. Environmental DNA, 2(1), 99-111. doi: 10.1002/edn3.49
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Karelitz, S., Lamare, M., Patel, F., Gemmell, N., & Uthicke, S. (2020). Parental acclimation to future ocean conditions increases development rates but decreases survival in sea urchin larvae. Marine Biology, 167, 2. doi: 10.1007/s00227-019-3610-5
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