Students
I've been fortunate to supervise, co-supervise, and mentor some great students!
Current PhD Students
Sabrina De Zen
Thermal load sensitivity of photosynthesis in Australian native species
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Catie Pottinger
Thermal load sensitivity of plant species from different biomes across their life stages
James King
Abiotic stress responses in alpine flora
Thomas Hanley
Alpine plant plasticity in morphological and physiological traits in response to temperature and drought​​
Current Honours Students
Ella Wishart
Identifying the impact of heat stress on pollen viability and vigour in Wahlenbergia
Liv Handfield
Light and temperature effects on thermal load sensitivity in snowgums
Tara Walker
Thermal load sensitivity of Australian seeds
Completed PhD Students
Rocco Notarnicola
An alpine plant’s responses to warming temperatures: from plasticity to molecular pathways. (PhD conferred November 2022)
Completed Honours Students
Kate Farkas (2024)
How do heat and drought affect alpine soil invertebrates?
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Catie Pottinger (2023)
Alpine plant thermal tolerance and its relation to microclimate.
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Michelle Bird (2023)
Alpine plant thermal tolerance in a microclimate.
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Aaron Midson (2022)
Applicability of optical dendrometry for estimating water stress in Eucalyptus pauciflora.
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Tenzin Norzin (2021)
The causes and consequences of variation in respiration: responses of the alpine plant, Wahlenbergia ceracea, to a warming climate.
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Alexandra Catling (2018)
Phenotypic plasticity to heat and cold: characterising thermal reaction norms of key plant traits in the Australian alpine waxy bluebell.