Students
I've been fortunate to supervise, co-supervise, and mentor some great students!
Kate Farkas (Honours student - 2023)
The effects of heat and drought on alpine soil invertebrates
Co-supervised with Megan Head
Catie Pottinger (Honours student - 2023)
Alpine plant thermal tolerance and its relation to microclimate
Co-supervised with Andy Leigh and Sonya Geange
Michelle Bird (Honours student - 2023)
Alpine plant thermal tolerance in a microclimate
Co-supervised with Andy Leigh and Sonya Geange
Rose Thompson (Undergraduate research student - 2022)
Do heat and drought stress on parent plants affect seed germination
in Wahlenbergia ceracea?
Han Zhu (Undergraduate research student - 2022)
The effects of climate change on soil invertebrates
Co-supervised with Megan Head
James King (PhD - commenced 2022)
Abiotic stress responses in alpine flora
Co-supervised with Susanna Venn and Adrienne Nicotra
Thomas Hanley (PhD - commenced 2022)
Surviving in new extremes: alpine plant plasticity in changing climatic extremes
Co-supervised with Susanna Venn and Adrienne Nicotra
Aaron Midson (Honours H1 - 2022)
Applicability of optical dendrometry for estimating water stress in Eucalyptus pauciflora
Co-supervised with Matthew Brookhouse
Dmitry Grishin (Research Assistant - commenced 2021)
Assists with a range of projects associated with
Drivers of phenotypic evolution in vulnerable alpine systems
Jacynda Bovill (Research Assistant - commenced 2021)
Assists with a range of projects associated with
Drivers of phenotypic evolution in vulnerable alpine systems
Sabina Aitkin (Undergraduate research student - 2022)
Leaf temperature of alpine plants in heatwaves in a manipulative field experiment
Co-supervised with Adrienne Nicotra
Joe Erskine (Undergraduate research student - 2022)
Leaf temperature of alpine plants in heatwaves in a manipulative field experiment
Co-supervised with Adrienne Nicotra
Monique White (Undergraduate research student - 2022)
Leaf thermoregulation in species from contrasting biomes
Supervised along with Verónica Briceño
Dr Rocco Notarnicola (PhD - completed 2022)
An alpine plant's responses to warming temperatures:
from plasticity to molecular pathways
Co-supervised with Diep Ganguly, Loeske Kruuk, and Adrienne Nicotra
Tenzin Norzin (Honours H1 - 2020)
The causes and consequences of variation in respiration:
responses of the alpine plant, Wahlenbergia ceracea, to a warming climate
Co-supervised with Loeske Kruuk and Adrienne Nicotra
Alexandra Catling (Honours H1 - 2018)
Phenotypic plasticity to heat and cold: characterising thermal reaction norms
of key plant traits in the Australian alpine waxy bluebell
Co-supervised with Loeske Kruuk and Adrienne Nicotra
Sarah Woodcock (Summer Scholar - 2021-2022)
Isabelle Bennett (Summer Scholar - 2021-2022)
Angela Bracken (Summer Scholar - 2020-2021)
Tenzin Norzin (Summer Scholar - 2019-2020)
Pamudika Kiridena (Summer Scholar - 2018-2019)
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