Available Masters and Honours Projects
Students are encouraged to look through these available Masters/Honours projects. If any interest you, please correspond with the listed contact person for further information. Alternately if you have interests/skills in a particular area of research you can develop a project with your potential supervisor/ course coordinator.
Cick on a category to view available projects:
Climate & Oceans
- Using seals to measure the Antarctic shelf seas
- Interannual variability in tropical Pacific phytoplankton populations
- 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
- Tracing the ocean’s lungs through time: An investigation of oxygen variability in the southern Ocean since the last ice age
- Calcite Mg/Ca ratios as an indicator for past climate change?
- The effect of an intensified East Australian Current over the input of nutrients on the Subantarctic Mode Water, south of Tasmania
- Scattering of internal gravity waves at rough topography in the deep ocean
- The role of topography in energy dissipation of oceanic eddies
- The impact of low-latitude meridional winds on the global overturning circulation of the ocean
- Constraining the neodymium isotope composition of the southwest Pacific Ocean
- Quantification of Australian dust deposition over the last glacial-interglacial transition
- Can we find Antarctic ice edge blooms from space?
Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Albacore Tuna - A Signature Lipid Study
- Investigating the causes and consequences of fish growth variation using otolith biochronologies
- 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
- 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
- Bioaccumulation Potential of Copper and Zinc Associated with Antifoulant Usage in Aquaculture Operations (2 Honours Projects)
Marine Ecology & Biodiversity
- Soft corals and sea fans (order Alcyonacea) of the Tamar River estuary
- Population and foraging ecology of Silver Gulls in southeast Tasmania
- Mapping Australia's zooplankton using IMOS National Reference Stations
- Effect of ecological and physiological factors on heavy metal uptake mechanisms in key estuarine species
- Albacore Tuna - A Signature Lipid Study
- 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
- Mobility and behavioural thermoregulation: are sessile species cautious when selecting habitat?
- Do parasites lower the survivorship of their host under extreme environmental conditions?
- Are Antarctic invertebrates particularly susceptible to contaminants?
- Bioaccumulation Potential of Copper and Zinc Associated with Antifoulant Usage in Aquaculture Operations (2 Honours Projects)
Integrated Ocean-Earth System Science
- Reconstructing the Gulden Draak micro-continent, Western Australia
- Channels of the Perth Abyssal Plain Micro-continents
- Ontong Java Plateau, Southwest Pacific
- Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Ocean
- Quantitative marine geoscientific mapping, Southern Ocean
- Quantitative marine geoscientific mapping, Southern Ocean
- Paleo-geography and Paleo-topography of Indian Ocean Islands
- Large Igneous Province formation and accretion in Panthalassa and the Pacific
- The East Kerguelen Sediment Drift and Channel
- The Submarine Heard Island and McDonald Islands Volcanic Field
- 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