ARC Future Fellow & Lab Leader

Zoë is a marine ecologist, science communicator and passionate advocate for accessible science. See Zoë's GoogleScholar and LinkedIn profiles for publications and career history.

PhD Student

Erica is undertaking a PhD on cephalopods focused on using their hard parts to unravel their ecology. She has degrees from the Universities of Hawaii and Otago. She is supervised by Zoë, Jasmin, Justin Payne, and Gretchen Grammer (SARDI Aquatic Sciences).

PhD Student

Arieli is undertaking a PhD on seafood provenance and fraud. She has a Master's in fisheries biology from the Federal University of São Paulo (and has a passion for cephalopods!). She is supervised by Zoë and Justin Payne.

Research Assistant

Louise is one of our lab research assistants. She has an Honours in Ecology and Environmental Science from The University of Adelaide.

Adjunct Research Fellow

Jasmin is a former Research Associate at MARIS labs. She is now a Research Fellow at UNSW, with an Adjunct position at UniSA. She co-supervises Erica.

Masters Student

Shanie is undertaking her master’s on narwhal geochemistry at the University of Ottawa. She supervised by Clément Bataille (uOttawa) and co-supervised by Zoe. Shanie will be visiting us for 12 months in 2025.

PhD Student

Neve is undertaking a PhD and investigating the distribution and population biology of invasive pearl oysters in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Neve is supervised by Craig Styan (UniSA) and co-supervised by Marty Deveney (SARDI) and Zoe.

PhD Student

Beth has just started her PhD and will be investigating the trophic ecology of the famous giant Australian cuttlefish in South Australia, which come together in their 1000s to breed in Spencer Gulf. Beth is supervised by Lauren Meyer and Ryan Baring (Flinders Uni), and co-supervised by Mike Steer (SARDI) and Zoe.

Research Assistant

Jasper is one of our lab research assistants and was co-supervised by Zoë for his Honours in 2021. He is currently undertaking his PhD at Flinders University investigating the response of macroinvertebrate infauna communities to beach replenishment along the Adelaide metropolitan coastline. Jasper is supervised by Ryan Baring and Graziela Miot da Silva (Flinders University).

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