Experiment in glasshouse testing rapid evolution of introduced plants.
Laura Warman (PhD 2011) – Alternative Stable States in Australia’s wet tropics. Now grants manager at Triangle Land Conservancy, North Carolina, USA.
Fiona Thomson (PhD 2011) – Global to local perspectives on seed dispersal. Now a Science Advisor Weeds at the New Zealand Department of Conservation.
Raymond Blick (PhD 2012) – Ecological associations and mimicry in Australian Mistletoe. Now a data scientist for research analysis, data and reporting at UNSW Sydney.
Habacuc Flores-Moreno (PhD 2013) – Ecological Mechanisms and evolutionary patterns of introduced species. Now Data Curation Analyst, Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network, Australia.
Rhiannon Dalrymple (PhD 2015) – Patterns of colour diversity across communities. Now Project Officer for the CEPI funded Rapid Response Vaccine Pipeline at UQ.
Jacinta Green (PhD 2016) – Fouling on marine macroalgae. Now an environmental consultant in Northern NSW.
Sichong Chen (PhD 2016) – Seed size and seed dispersal. Now a Professor at the Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan.
Floret Meredith (PhD 2017) – Herbivory and plant defense on islands vs. mainlands. Now Climate Change and Environment Officer for the Indigo Shire Council, Victoria.
Claire Brandenburger (PhD 2019) – Rapid evolution in an introduced beach daisy. Now a Herbarium Digitisation Officer at the National Herbarium of NSW, Australian Institute of Botanical Science.
Susan Everingham (PhD 2021) – Plant responses to climate change. Now a postdoctoral researcher at Western Sydney University.
Alexander Sentinella (PhD 2021) – Spatial patterns in climate change risk. Now Science Coordinator at Growing Media Europe.
Zoe Xirocostas (PhD 2022) – Cross-continental analysis of interactions facilitating or hindering successful introduction. Now a research fellow at the University of Technology Sydney.
Frederick Dadzie (PhD 2023) – Using native microorganisms to restore degraded drylands. Now a Seed Scientist at Biobankseed, NSW.
Joe Atkinson (PhD 2023) – Assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem restoration across Australia. Now a postdoc at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Giancarlo Chiarenza (PhD 2023) – Large and in charge? How plant-soil relationships can shape plant success. Now a postdoc at Curtin University, Australia
Karen Zeng (PhD 2024) – Running away from your problems: The enemy release hypothesis.
Inna Osmolovsky (PhD 2025) – Shifting high and low: the role of biotic and abiotic factors in range shifts in response to climate change.
Past Masters students
Joanna Buswell (MSc 2009) Rapid evolution in introduced species. Now an analyst at the Ministry for Environment, New Zealand.
Floor Soudijn (MSc 2009) Offspring size-number trade-offs in marine invertebrates. Now a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands.
Past honours students
Paul Chachelle(BSc hons) Herbivory on land and in the sea. Went on to a PhD at U Western Australia.
Karen Bartle(BSc hons) Evolution of seed dispersal ability in introduced Senecio madagascariensis. Now a team leader in plant biosecurity at Australian Quarantine Inspection Service.
Ellen Couchman(BSc hons) Rapid morphological change in introduced starlings. Now an Environment Advisor at BMA, Queensland.
Rhiannon Dalrymple (BSc hons). Do clonal species change as quickly as sexually reproducing species? Went on to a PhD at UNSW (see above).
Marianne Tindall (BSc hons) The latitudinal gradient in spinescence. Now a swimming teacher.
Thomas Meredith (BSc hons) Herbivory on land and in the sea. Now QA/QC Brewer at Bridge Road Brewers.
Timothy Hitchcock (BSc hons) The latitudinal gradient in plant longevity. Now works at Commonwealth Bank.
Stephanie Creer (BSc hons) Ecological processes underlying rapid evolution in Arctotheca populifolia. Now a Strategic Evaluation and Data Governance at NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.
Martin Kim (BSc hons) Herbivory on introduced vs native populations of Arctotheca populifolia. Now a graduate environmental consultant.
Susan Everingham (BSc hons 2016) When Native plants invade novel ecosystems. Went on to a PhD at UNSW (see above).
Casey Kirchoff (BSc hons 2016) Development of reproductive isolation in introduced Arctotheca populifolia (F1 generation). Became a PhD at UNSW Sydney (with David Keith).
Sivagowre (Meena) Sritharan (BSc hons 2017). Are Australian Alpine plants changing in response to climate change? Now a Conservation Scientist in the Science, Economics and Insights Division at the NSW Department of Planning & Environment.
Coen Romalis (BSc hons 2017) Development of reproductive isolation in introduced Arctotheca populifolia (F2 generation). Now works at an Ecological consulting firm in Melbourne.
Neil Ross (BSc hons 2017) Why do spinifex hummocks form fairy rings? Now doing a PhD at UNSW Sydney.
Karen Zeng (BSc hons 2018) Using photoperiod sensitivity to predict phenological responses to climate change. Went on to a PhD at UNSW (see above).
Zoe Xirocostas (BSc hons 2018) Does the sex with the reduced sex chromosome die earlier? A comparison across the tree of life. Went on to a PhD at UNSW (see above).
Jennifer Auld (BSc hons 2020) Quantifying distribution shifts of Australian alpine plants through time. Now an Senior Environmental Consultant at Ramboll.
Ashika Jagdish (BSc hons 2020) Shining a light on patterns of photoperiod sensitivity in seed germination across latitudes, ecosystems and functional traits. Now a Spatial Data Analyst at Lotsearch.
Lillian Zhang (BSc hons 2020) Range shifts in plant species in eastern Australia over the last 150 years. Now a Data Analytics Instructional Associate at General Assembly.
Sebastian Schwarz (BSc hons 2021) Plants with domatia house mycophagous mites to endure wetter climates for fungal control. Now a Policy Officer at the Department of Agriculture & the Environment.
Rosa Earle (BSc hons 2022) Empirical evidence for introduction bias.
Bettina Ignacio (BSc hons 2022) The potential for natural regeneration in a semi-arid rangeland from the soil seed bank. Now a Youth Minister at the Chatswood’s Our Lady of Dolours Church.
Madelon Cruickshank (BSc hons 2022) Introducing the COVERater: A training tool that decreases inaccuracy of cover estimates in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Now in the Graduate Development Program of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Marcus Greenwood (BSc hons 2022) Contextualising maternal effects: when and where do they matter? Currently a PhD student at UNSW.
Euan Rogers (BSc hons 2022) Comparing the shifting distribution of Australian arid and mesic plants through time. Now a Graduate Environmental Consultant at GHD.
Adam Baldock (BSc hons 2024) Comparing herbivory on native and introduced plants on the urban-rural gradient.
Charlotte Billinghurst (BSc hons 2025) Can we use plant traits or phylogeny to predict which species will be heavy metal accumulators.
Ciara de Andrade (BSc hons 2025) Testing the accuracy of MaxEnt by running models from the perspective of the past.
Felix Mitchell (BSc hons 2025) Quantifying the effect of soil warming on plant-microbe interactions in a sub-alpine ecosystem.
Arielle Perkett (BSc hons 2025) The effect of fragmentation on herbivory and pathogen attack. Currently a PhD student at UNSW.
