Vanessa Barry
Email: barva671@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Population genomics of Buller's albatross Thalassarche bulleri
Supervisors: Nic Rawlence
Pearl Barry
Email: barpe512@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Ecology and translocation of green skinks
Supervisors: Jo Monks
Finn Brittenden
Email: brifi122@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Impacts of invasive mice on native invertebrates
Supervisors: Jo Monks
Alexander Brown
Email: broal300@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Conducting morphometric and Ancient DNA analysis on gecko fossils to group them according to species lineage
Supervisors: Nic Rawlence
Howin Chao
Email: chaho549@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Common grass skink ecology and behaviour in urban areas
Supervisors: Stephanie Godfrey
Prakriti Chhetri
Email: chhpr105@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Neuroentomology.
Supervisors: Paul Szyszka
Abigail Clarke
Email: claab853@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Investigating the effects of BLIS K12TM probiotics on mass gain rates in hoiho (Megadyptes antipodes) in temporary captivity
Supervisors: Yolanda van Heezik, Phil Seddon
Tobia Dale
Email: dalto181@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Past, present, and future distributions of New Zealand’s pepeketua (Leiopelma spp.)
Supervisors: Nic Rawlence, Stephanie Godfrey, Jo Monks
Isaac Davies
Email: davis332@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Analysing the life history traits and their role in understanding distributions for Galaxias 'species D' and Galaxias 'Nevis'
Supervisors: Gerry Closs
Corey Denham
Email: denco453@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Identifying protentional drivers of freshwater macroinvertebrate biodiversity across 3 isolated pristine ecosystems across a temporal and geographical
Supervisors: Gerry Closs
Nicholas Dong
Email: nicholas.dong@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Working with Mike Paulin and Trichoplax electrosensitive cell mechanisms
Supervisors: Paul Szyszka
Anran Fan
Email: fanan164@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Testing anthropogenic deforestation effects on stonefly distribution
Supervisors: Jon Waters, Travis Ingram, Graham McCulloch
Kaitlyn Freeman
Email: freka007@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Out-of-season variation in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) smoltification and smolt quality
Supervisors: Mark Lokman
Adam Frimel
Email: adam.frimel@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Analysing the distribution and abundance data of both large galaxiids and salmonids which co-exist in coastal streams, with the goal of identifying pa
Supervisors: Gerry Closs
Tom Goodman
Email: gooto553@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Hedgehog home ranges, density and interactions with traps in the Mackenzie Basin
Supervisors: Yolanda van Heezik, Phil Seddon
Katie Gray
Email: graka585@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Ecology and movement patterns of banded dotterels and black-fronted terns in Tū Te Rakiwhānoa Drylands
Supervisors: Jo Monks
Blake Harper
Email: harbl526@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Is the current productivity/ fishery popularity of the Lake Benmore trout fishery reliant on sockeye salmon smolt predation
Supervisors: Amandine Sabadel
Adam Harris
Email: harad225@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Neural Correlates of Attention in the Honeybee
Supervisors: Paul Szyzka
Ela Hunt
Email: hunel856@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Intra-annual variation in Chatham Island taiko surival
Supervisors: Phillip Seddon
Robbie Hurley
Email: hurro667@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Otago skink sociality and genetics
Supervisors: Stephanie Godfrey
Liam Ireland
Email: ireli721@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Methods of marking and identification in response to pattern change in New Zealand native frogs
Supervisors: Christoph Matthaei, Jennifer Germano (DOC)
Adam Kitchen
Email: adam.kitchen@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Resolving galaxiid taxonomy with ancient DNA and environmental DNA
Supervisors: Nic Rawlence
Angela Knight
Email: knian050@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Impacts of predator control on urban wildlife communities as revealed by predatory behaviour of domestic cats (Felis catus)
Supervisors: Jon Waters, Graham McCulloch, Ludovic Dutoit
Krishan Lala
Email: lalkr111@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Establishment of a long term environmental monitoring program within the East Otago Taiāpure in addition to a lab based assessment looking at changes
Supervisors: Sheri Johnson
Alastair Matheson-Grant
Email: matal098@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Secondary Neurulation
Supervisors: Caroline Beck
Sharhirah Mathias
Email: matsh841@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Effects of house mice predation on alpine invertebrates in Fiordland
Supervisors: Jo Monks
Jack Matterson
Email: matja504@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Assessing the preference and toxicity of sugar-alcohols on a range of New Zealand pest insects
Supervisors: Paul Szyszka, Jenny Jandt
Karen Mayhew
Email: karen.mayhew@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc
Topic: Strategies to increase the resilience of the vulnerable Galaxias anomalus in the face of invasive salmonids, water abstraction and projected climate c
Supervisors: Gerry Closs
Cassandra Mealey
Email: meaca050@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Can terrestrial environmental DNA detect lizards in a grassland environment?
Supervisors: Jo Mionks, Ludo Dutoit
Winter Miller
Email: milwi001@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Monitoring pollinator activity and efficacy across simulated effects of global climate change
Supervisors: Jenny Jandt
Hadley Muller
Email: mulha552@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: The past to protect the present - phylogeography and conservation genetics of an archaic frog genus (Leiopelma spp.)
Supervisors: Nic Rawlence, Ludo Dutoit, Jo Monks
Mats Olsthoorn
Email: olsma503@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Ecology of ticks on red-bill gulls/Tarāpunga
Supervisors: Stephanie Godfrey
Hanna Ravn
Email: ravha345@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Marine Science)
Topic: Sea lion diet analysis - a citizen science project
Supervisors: Will Rayment, Yolanda van Heezik
Catriona Robertson
Email: robca871@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Effect of juvenile kingfish habituation to mild repeated stressor on the magnitude of subsequent stress response, with potential advancements into sel
Supervisors: Mark Lokman, Bridie Allan, Alin Setiawan
Harvey Rubbo
Email: rubha655@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Interactions between introduced salmonids and native fish.
Supervisors: Gerry Closs
Nathan Silcock
Email: silna882@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Observation of eel populations within the Sinclair Wetlands and the Chatham Islands freshwater systems
Supervisors: Travis Ingram, Gerry Closs, Mark Lokman
Thomas Stewart
Email: steth977@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Botany)
Topic: Looking at population genetics of Celmisia in the South Island to establish speciation mechanisms
Supervisors: Matt Larcombe, Ludo Dutoit
Oscar Thomas
Email: thoos290@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Movement ecology and plumage variation of the critically endangered tūturiwhatu/southern New Zealand dotterel
Supervisors: Jo Monks, Bruce Roberston
Theo Thompson
Email: thoth863@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Modelling breeding success and enhancing our remote sensing ability of four subantarctic toroa species
Supervisors: Philip Seddon, Matt Schofield
Danielle Turner
Email: turda173@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Environmental estrogens in Otago surface waters.
Supervisors: Mark Lokman, Alison Heather (Physiology)
Sila Viriyautsahakul
Email: virlu009@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: The aim is to study the behavioural manipulation of triplefins by the parasite, Cardiocephaloides sp.. My study will determine whether the parasite ca
Supervisors: Robert Poulin, Jerusha Bennett, Sheri Johnson
Te Waipoua
Email: waiar058@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Marine Science)
Topic: Identifying areas of high conservation concern of the kuaka (Whenua Hou diving petrel) through fine-scale GPS tracking during the breeding period
Supervisors: Ursula Ellenberg, Philip Seddon
Jade Watkin
Email: watja361@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Investigating mātauranga Māori to aid conservation and better understand the ecology of New Zealand bats (pekapeka)
Supervisors: Stephanie Godfrey
Elliot Weir
Email: elliot.weir@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Role of native geckos in plant reproductive systems
Supervisors: Stephanie Godfrey
Carwen Williams
Email: wilca505@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: To determine if a potential translocation could be done of the Cromwell Chafer Beetle from the Cromwell Chafer Beetle Reserve to Mata Au Scientific Re
Supervisors: Sheri Johnson
Harriet Wills
Email: wilha390@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Habitat use of the northern striped gecko Toropuku inexpectatus
Supervisors: Jo Monks
Arti Wilmshurst
Email: wiljo467@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: The impacts of invasive vespulid wasps on native geckos
Supervisors: Jo Monks, Jenny Jandt
Anna Zrinyi-Morgan
Email: zrian003@student.otago.ac.nz
Course: MSc (Zoology)
Topic: Investigating the ecology of the Nationally Critical skink Oligosoma Kahurangi, and the application of species distribution modelling techniques for a
Supervisors: Jo Monks