Honours

Honours program & Special Projects

Current Honours students Marine Blancher (Honours) Current severe dieback in Moreton Bay: why do mangrove areas sink when trees become stressed or die? Kylie Moffat (Honours) Using indicators of change to monitor health of mangrove ecosystems and assess the impacts of trampling and boardwalks   Ross Polke (Honours) Michael Ross (Honours) The Value of Mangroves to Commercial Fishing in Moreton Bay Alumni Honours students Kathleen Ahern (Honours completed January 2003) Effects of nutrients on the cyanobacteria Lyngbya majuscula: A bioassay Technique Simon Albert (Honours completed Dec 2001) Effect of catchment derived compounds on Lyngbya majuscula productivity in Moreton Bay, Queensland Alicia Bell (Honours completed June 2002) Response of Mangrove Saplings to the Application of Herbicides Catie Gongol (Honours completed June 2004) Investigating variability in denitrification rates: spatial, temporal, methodological Lloyd Godson (Honours completed June 2002) Petroleum pollution and genetic mutations in Avicennia marina Ali Heydon (Honours) Contaminants and Phenotypic variation in Avicennia marina Amy Jones (Honours completed July 2007) Survival and establishment of the mangrove Rhizophora stylosa seedlings, affected by Coccotrypes fallax in sub-tropical and temperate Australia Timothy Jordan (Honours completed Dec 2002) Phytoplankton biomass: Nutrient phytoplankton bioassay methodology and other methods. Ben Knowles(Honours) Deep Seagrass at Tangalooma Pippy Lawn (Honours completed June 2002) Response of Lyngbya majuscula to Soil Extracts taken from the Moreton Bay Region: a Bioassay Approach Cherie O'Sullivan (Honours) Organic characterisation and impact on Lyngbya majuscula blooms in Deception bay, South East Queensland Dan Pedersen (Honours completed Dec 2002) Mangrove Health Assessment Andrew Prosser(Honours completed November 2004) Faunal community change following mangrove dieback in Moreton Bay, Australia Bec Sommer(Honours completed November 2004) Historical Change of Wetland Communities of Moreton Bay: An Assessment of human and climatic influences Nicki Steggles (Honours completed February 2002) Historical change of mangrove communities within the Moreton Bay Region Charlene Tack (Honours completed Dec 2002) Historical changes In distribution of mangrove communities in two islands In Central Queensland Jane Thomas (Honours completed June 2003) Caulerpa taxifolia / seagrass interactions Katherine Zahmel (Honours completed Dec 2002) Historical changes (mangroves) in two Wetland areas of Central Qld