Professor Neil Loneragan
Director

Email: n.loneragan@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 6453
Room: BioSc/2.023
Qualifications: BSc W.Aust., BSc(Hons) Murd., PhD Murd.

After a worldwide search, Murdoch University has appointed Professor Neil Loneragan as the new Chair in Fisheries Science. After completing his PhD studies at Murdoch University, Professor Loneragan joined CSIRO Marine Research in Brisbane, where he spent 14 years. During his last two years with CSIRO, he was the Research Group Leader for the Northern Fisheries and Ecosystems group, a large group focussed on understanding the dynamics of fisheries in northern Australia, particularly the Northern Prawn Fishery and their interactions with the marine ecosystem.� In his new role, he will be looking to enhance collaboration in Sustainable Fisheries research and develop postgraduate courses that will enhance research and management of aquatic resources.

CV and Publications

Colleen Hubbard
Secretary

Professor Norman Hall
Deputy Director

Email: normhall@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 7215
Room: BioSc/2.035
Qualifications: BSc W.Aust., DipEd W.Aust., GradDipComp W.Aust., PhD Murd.
Research Interests:
Norm has worked in fisheries and wildlife research since 1969, during which time he has been heavily involved in natural resource modelling and providing advice to resource managers. He has made significant contributions to the field through the development of models for assessing the stocks of western rock lobsters and of other crustaceans and fish. These models have provided the basis for the management of many of the State’s fisheries by the Western Australian Department of Fisheries. More recently, while at Murdoch University, he has become involved in the development of ecosystem models that are intended to be used to introduce an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. Since joining Murdoch in 2001, Norm has been successful in extending the quantitative skills of many of the postgraduate students studying in the Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, as is demonstrated by the publications that have arisen from those student’s studies. In collaboration with these students and Professor Ian Potter, he has developed new approaches (1) to estimating natural mortality that reconcile the differences among the estimates of this parameter derived from various life history characteristics, (2) to describing the lengths at age in samples of fish collected from near and offshore waters that take into account the movement of fish offshore as they grow, and (3) to describing and assessing a fish stock exploited by recreational and commercial fishers where lack of data would preclude the application of traditional fisheries models.

Publications

Professor Ian Potter
Immediate Past Director 2000-2004

Position: Research Professor
Email: i.potter@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2524
Room: BioSc/2.011
Qualifications: BA Oxd., PhD NSW, FLS, FZS, FAIBiol, FTS
Research Interests:
1. The Biology of Lampreys
The taxonomy, life cycles, ecology, bioenergetics and respiratory and vascular physiology of larval and adult lampreys. These studies are aimed at elucidating the inter-relationships of the extant genera and families of lampreys and their relationship to other lower vertebrates. They are also orientated towards examining the adaptations exhibited by larval and adult lampreys to their divergent modes of life.

2. Estuarine Fishes and Crustaceans
The work on fish and crustaceans in estuaries has concentrated on the Peel-Harvey, Swan-Avon estuaries and Wilson Inlet. These studies have provided life cycle and ecological data on many of the most abundant teleosts, crabs and prawns in these systems. They have also elucidated the role played by different habitats within these systems and the effect of eutrophication on the fish and fisheries of the Peel-Harvey Estuary. This work is now being extended into inshore marine waters.

Dr Lynnath Beckley
Program Chair - Marine Science

Professor Stuart Bradley

Associate Professor Max Cake

Position: Head - Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Email: Maxcake@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2368
Room: BioSc/2.005
Qualifications: BSc W.Aust., PhD W.Aust.
Teaching:
N152 Cell Biology and N371 Biochemistry II
Research Interests:
Molecular mechanism of hormone action particularly as it relates to normal development; birth-related defects in metabolism; developmental biochemistry of liver and lung; mammalian tissue culture.

Dr Jennifer Chaplin

Position: Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Email: J.Chaplin@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2294
Room: BioSc/2.029
Qualifications: BSc Qld., PhD W'gong
Teaching:
N180 Introduction to Marine Biology
Research Interests:
My research interests are in the field of evolutionary biology. My past and present research work involves the use of ecological and genetic data to address questions about the life-history strategies of species covering a range of animal taxa. I am currently conducting studies of the breeding systems, dispersal patterns and population structures of species of aquatic invertebrate, bird and estuarine fish.

Dr Stan Fenwick

Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: s.fenwick@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 7418
Room: VetB/3.031
Qualifications: BVMS(Hons) Glas., MSc Stir., MSc Edin., PhD Massey
Research interests:
Stan is a veterinary microbiologist who teaches public health and meat hygiene. His research interests are varied, involving many zoonotic and food-borne diseases, in particular, the role of animals as sources of infection for people. He has recently arrived from New Zealand where he was involved with investigations into Salmonella infections in sheep, Campylobacter infections in sheep and poultry and Yersinia infections in pigs.
Research website: Fish Health Unit

Dr Howard Gill

Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: h.gill@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2282
Qualifications: BSc Liv., PhD Murd.
Teaching:
N157 Animal and Plant Recognition and N261 Animal Diversity
Research interests:
Taxonomy and phylogeny of lampreys
Ecology of freshwater fishes
Status of threatened freshwater fish species

Dr Alan Lymbery

Dr Philip Nicholls

Dr Shane Raidal

Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: s.raidal@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2418
Room: VetB/2.007
Qualifications: BVsc(Hons) Syd., PhD Syd., MACVSc
Shane is a senior lecturer in Veterinary Pathology with a general interest in avian, fish and reptile diseases and particularly viral diseases of these vertebates.
Teaching:
* Avian Medicine and Surgery
* Systemic Pathology and Medicine
* General pathology
* Diagnostic pathology rotation
Research Interests:
* The pathogenesis and epidemiology of viral diseases in wild birds in Australia.
* The pathogenesis and prevention of psittacine beak and feather disease.
* Circovirus infections in birds
* Avian pathology
* Fish pathology
* Exophthalmia syndrome in Western Australian Dhufish
Research website: Fish Health Unit

Associate Professor Malcolm Tull

Position: Associate Professor in Economics
Email: m.tull@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2481
Room: ECL/3.020
Qualifications: BSc Hull, PhD Murd.
Teaching:
Economics of globalisation; Asian economic growth; Australian economic history
Research interests:
Maritime economics and policy; economic history
Joint Editor: The International Journal of Maritime History

Dr Fiona Valesini

Position: Lecturer in Marine Ecology
Email: f.valesini@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 7621(MU) or 9239 8805 (FMSC)
Room: BioSc/2.031
Qualifications: BSc(Hons) Murd., PhD Murd.
Teaching:
Marine and Estuarine Biology (BIO384), Ecology (ENV268), Fish and Fisheries Biology (BIO205)
Research interests:
Inter-relationships between faunal assemblages (fish and invertebrates) and habitat types in nearshore marine and estuarine waters

Professor Graham Wilcox

Position: Professor
Email: g.wilcox@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2488
Room: VetB/3.050
Qualifications: BVSc Qld., PhD Qld., ACVM
Research interests:
Graham is a virologist who teaches mainly in the Veterinary Microbiology component of Biology of Disease. His research is on viruses which infect domestic animals, currently the virus causing Jembrana disease in cattle, avian reoviruses and avian coronaviruses.
Research website: Fish Health Unit

Emeritus Professor Ron Wooller

Position: Emeritus Professor
Email: R.Wooller@murdoch.edu.au
Phone: 9360 2250
Room: BioSc/2.015
Qualifications: CertEd S'ton., BA York(UK), PhD Durh.
Research Interests:
The ecology and behaviour of vertebrates, particularly the population biology of seabirds, and nectar-feeding birds and mammals. The regeneration strategies of banksias.

Dr Nic Dunlop

Position: Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Email: nick.dunlop@conservationwa.asn.au
Qualifications: BEnvSc Murd., BSc Murd., PhD Murd.
Research Interests:
Dr Nic Dunlop continues some long-term studies of seabird populations off south-western Australia that commenced when he was a Murdoch PhD student in the early 1980s. Currently he is bringing together a body of information on the dramatic changes in the distribution and / or abundance of tropical seabird populations in the region and the links with shifts in ocean climate.

Nic is currently the Sustainable Fisheries Liaison Officer with the Conservation Council with a particular interest in ecosystem-based fisheries management, including the development of effective and low cost indicators of habitat condition and trophic state. He is currently conducting a small-scale study evaluating the use of stable isotope ratios in tissue carbon and nitrogen to track changes in predator - prey relationships within a localised whitebait fishery.

Associate Professor Rod Lenanton

Position: Adjunct Associate Professor
Qualifications: BSc W.Aust., MSc W.Aust., PhD Murd.
Position: Senior Supervising Scientist - Finfish, Department of Fisheries WA

Associate Professor Jeremy Prince

Position: Adjunct Associate Professor
Email: biospherics@ozemail.com.au
Qualifications: BSc Murd., PhD Tas.
Research profile
Having combined within his career the roles of both resource assessment modeler and commercial fisher, Jeremy Prince is a leading practitioner in the use of fisher lore to study fisheries ecology. Working on the interface between government and the fishing industry since the early 1980s he has consulted to government, industry and conservation groups in most of Australia’s more contentious fisheries assessment and management issues. Current roles include chairman of the commonwealth Southern Shark Resource Assessment Group and research member on the Gillnet, Hook and Trap Fishery Management Advisory Group, principal investigator for the Pearl Producers Association of Australia’s research program into ESD aspects of their industry, and as a senior team member for a large multi-disciplinary project developing Alternative Management Strategies for the commonwealth South East Australian Shark and Scalefish fishery.

Jeremy Prince’s core personal interest is in the assessment and management of small scale or micro-fisheries where the larger resource is comprised of a complex of relatively discrete and often variable breeding stocks. Convinced that overlooking the true spatial complexity of most natural resources lies behind many failures in fisheries assessment and management, he is planning to change the world through an FRDC funded project which has the objective of reforming management in the Australian abalone fishery. As a hobby he maintains parallel involvements in the New Zealand abalone fishery, the Californian sea urchin fishery and the Chilean coastal artisanal fisheries.

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