Gillanders Aquatic Ecology Laboratory Marine Freshwater Fish

Welcome

Welcome to Professor Bronwyn Gillanders’ laboratory group at the University of Adelaide. Our research group focuses on aquatic waters (freshwater, estuarine and marine) with a strong focus on fish and cephalopods, and environmental issues. The group is part of the Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories in the School of Biological Sciences and the Environment Institute.

The Gillanders Aquatic Ecology lab group includes Postdoctoral Researchers, PhD students, and Honours Students working in freshwater and marine biology. We also have some visiting interns and undergraduate researchers. If you are interested in working with us please contact Bronwyn directly to discuss opportunities that may be available - please check out our research first to check that your interests align with ours.

News Highlights

January 2024

Welcome to the Gillanders Aquatic Ecology lab webpage and recent news.

Another year to reflect on and one to look forward to.

So what’s happened over the last year – Josie commenced her PhD investigating provenance, mislabelling and trade of shark products. We also had several students complete their PhDs including Chris (worked at SARDI throughout his PhD and continues there), Qiaz (now in France), Solomon and Vinuri (she submitted in November so still waiting final comments etc). We had several Hons students commence in mid 2023 including Danni (who is investigating microplastic pollution in marine environments from stormwater and rivers), and Janna (who is looking at microplastic contamination throughout the supply chain) and several more commence in early 2024 (Lucah and Madison).

Lot's of conference attendance including Bronwyn attending her first Fisheries Society of the British Isles conference as a keynote speaker - wonderful to attend a conference with a single session. We also had a good group attend the International Otolith Symposium in Chile which after a rocky start for several (they flew from Adelaide to Melbourne to then have their ongoing international connection to Chile cancelled and rescheduled 3 days later!) we managed to get there either on time or a day late - Bronwyn gave one of the plenaries and Patrick, Koster and Joe also gave presentations as did Charlotte who had just finished an exchange from Canada to the lab. We also had a good group attend the IndoPacific Fish Congress in Auckland - Patrick, Nina, Joe and Rhiannon.

We are looking forward to another big year ahead with a number of PhD students finishing up, lots of research happening and some great publications coming out.

For other recent publications please see here for the 2023 publications or here for the 2024 ones.

For regular news updates see our Blog page.

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