New Honours Projects 2012
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Climate & Oceans
- "NEW" An estimate of carbon export from the subantarctic zone from oxygen sensors on profiling floats
- Using seals to measure the Antarctic shelf seas
- Interannual variability in tropical Pacific phytoplankton populations
- Representing fish and squid in ecosystem models for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
- Examining the effects of climate change on Antarctic and Southern Ocean food webs using the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS)
- Assessing the autotrophic/heterotrophic balance of the open ocean
- Impact of climate change on ocean ventilation by Antarctic Intermediate Water
- Quantifying the near surface wind flow around coastal Antarctica
- Amery Ice Shelf dynamics: a combined laboratory and model study
Fisheries and Aquaculture
- "NEW" Evaluation of alternative management strategies for marine biofouling
- "NEW" Albacore Tuna - A Signature Lipid Study
- "NEW" Investigating the causes and consequences of fish growth variation using otolith biochronologies
- Changes in microbial communities in a seawater treatment system and impact on marine finfish larvae in aquaculture
- Testing levels of self-recruitment and larval dispersion in abalone
- The role of Hybrid Zones in Tasmanian abalone populations
Marine Ecology & Biodiversity
- "NEW" Mapping Australia's zooplankton using IMOS National Reference Stations
- "NEW" Effect of ecological and physiological factors on heavy metal uptake mechanisms in key estuarine species
- "NEW" Albacore Tuna - A Signature Lipid Study
- "NEW" Investigating the causes and consequences of fish growth variation using otolith biochronologies
- Representing fish and squid in ecosystem models for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
- Are introduced black rats predating seabirds on Lord Howe Island?
- Foraging ecology of Tristram's Storm petrel
- Testing levels of self-recruitment and larval dispersion in abalone
- The role of Hybrid Zones in Tasmanian abalone populations
Integrated Ocean-Earth System Science
- "NEW" Quantifying and characterising heavy metal contamination and sedimentation rates in the Derwent Estuary
- Development of a low-cost, high-throughput method for the analysis of trace metals in coastal and estuarine waters
- The East Kerguelen Sediment Drift and Channel
- Deformation of the Naturaliste Plateau
- Strain Partitioning along the Macquarie Ridge Complex
- Submarine Canyon Development on the Ontong Java Plateau
- Tectonic Development of the Manihiki Plateau