Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Assoc Prof Laurie Laurenson
  Phone   +61 3 556 33115
Email   laurie.laurenson@deakin.edu.au
Position   Associate Professor
Campus   Warrnambool
Publications   View entire list of audited publications
Research grouping   Marine and Freshwater Science
Centre for Integrative Ecology

I completed undergraduate studies at Curtin University, moved to South Africa and Rhodes
University where I completed both Honours and Masters degrees, in Ichthyology and Fisheries
Science. I moved back to Australia and completed my PhD at Murdoch and DipEd at UWA.
Areas of work have been fish ecology in freshwater and marine environments and more
recently marine habitat mapping in inshore waters using GIS and hydro-accoustic methods. I
have ongoing interests in shark and estuarine ecology

Research interests

  1. GIS & remote sensing applications, marine habitat mapping
  2. Estuarine ecology and physical environment
  3. Fish and shark ecology


Career

Assoc Prof (Deakin)
Lecturer/Senior lecturer fisheries biology (Deakin)
Fisheries Scientist (WA Fisheries)

 

Postdoctoral fellows

NameProject title
Dan IerodiaconouInshore Marine Habitat Mapping  

 

PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Michelle TrelorLife history of scates in SE Australia Allistair BeckerFish use of flooded margins of an intermittently open estuary Sarah IrvineAge and growth of deepwater dogfish Megan StorrieReproductive biology gummy sharks in SE Australia Matt KoopmanFisheries ecology of sand flathead in Port Philip Bay Dan IerodiaconouLand use change and impactson nutrient laods using GIS  

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title Allistair BeckerCompetitive interactions between the native fish, common jollytail and the exotic mosquitofish in a series of laboratory experiments Justin BellFisheries and reproductive biology of the elephantfish in south-eastern Australia Fabian TrinnieDemographic biology of Urolophus paucimaculatus, Trygonoptera sp B, U. crutiatus, and U bucculentus in south eastern Australia Michelle TreloarThe ecology and biology of Urolophus cruciatus and Urolophus expansus in SE Australia Dan IerodiaconouDevelopment of a spatial database using GIS an GPS technologies for the analysis of seagrass beds in the Hopkins Estuary Stephen LeporatiAnalysis of growth lengthincrement data for wild and captive gummy sharks Michelle BesleyA preliminary investigation of variations in habitat resulting from shoreline inumdation in the Eummeralla Estuary Sarah IrvineThe biology of Centrocymnus crepidator, Deania calcea and Etmopterus granulosus from south west Victorian waters Matthew KuitMarine benthic characterisation of the Tyrrendarra laval flow  

 

Teaching areas

GIS applications in inshore marine environments
Fish diversity and ecology


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8th February 2013