Biography
Mary completed her Bachelor's degree in Marine and Coastal Ecology at California State University, Monterey Bay where she also worked as a lab manager for the Seafloor Mapping Lab. During her time at the Seafloor Mapping Lab, she participated in the California Seafloor Mapping Program which mapped the coastal waters of California out to 3 nautical miles. During this time, Mary gained vast knowledge in the acquisition and processing of multibeam, sidescan and interferometric data. Even with this new skillset, her interest remained in marine ecology and mapping the seafloor gave insight into the heterogeneous environment in the oceans and sparked her interest in the field of marine landscape ecology. By using landscape ecology techniques and the seafloor maps, she completed and published her undergraduate capstone project on explaining and predicting rockfish distribution across the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary in California, USA. During her year off between finishing her undergraduate degree and starting her graduate degree she also worked on and published a project with Wood’s Hole Oceanographic Institution looking at spawning location preference of California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens). She then went on to complete her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Raimondi-Carr Lab. The main goal of her Ph.D. research was to apply landscape ecology to answer broad scale questions in marine ecology. Combining oceanography, biogenic habitat and population connectivity, she looked at the distributions of temperate nearshore reef fishes, giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) and the placement and evaluation of marine protected areas. At Deakin, Mary’s research will be focused on looking at broad scale patterns in marine systems with the incorporation of oceanographic processes, population characteristics, genetics, and seafloor habitat. Understanding these broad scale patterns in the oceans will help to understand the effects of climate change and help with marine spatial planning.
Read more on Mary's profileBiography summary
2008 - 2014 - Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California at Santa Cruz
2008 - Researcher on NOAA's search for deepwater caves in Bermuda
2005 - 2014 - Processing Supervisor at Seafloor Mapping Lab at California State University at Monterey Bay
2002- 2007 - B.S. in Marine and Coastal Ecology at California State University at Monterey Bay
Research interests
Marine Landscape Ecology
Marine Population Connectivity
Species Distributions
Effects of Climate Change on Marine Ecosystems
Marine Protected Area Management
Publications
Adam Miller, Ary Hoffmann, Mun Tan, Mary Young, Collin Ahrens, Michael Cocomazzo, Alex Rattray, Daniel Ierodiaconou, Eric Treml, Craig Sherman
(2019), Vol. 28, pp. 3053-3072, Molecular ecology, Chichester, Eng., C1
D Ierodiaconou, A Schimel, D Kennedy, J Monk, G Gaylard, M Young, M Diesing, A Rattray
(2018), Vol. 39, pp. 271-288, Marine geophysical research, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, C1
Multiscale and hierarchical classification for benthic habitat mapping
P Porskamp, A Rattray, M Young, D Ierodiaconou
(2018), Vol. 8, Geosciences, Basel, Switzerland, C1
A Jalali, M Young, Z Huang, H Gorfine, D Ierodiaconou
(2018), Vol. 27, pp. 587-601, Fisheries oceanography, Chichester, Eng., C1
Mary Young, Peter Macreadie, Clare Duncan, Paul Carnell, Emily Nicholson, Oscar Serrano, Carlos Duarte, Glenn Shiell, Jeff Baldock, Daniel Ierodiaconou
(2018), Vol. 14, Biology letters, London, Eng., C1
Applications of unmanned aerial vehicles in intertidal reef monitoring
S Murfitt, B Allan, A Bellgrove, A Rattray, M Young, D Ierodiaconou
(2017), Vol. 7, Scientific reports, London, Eng., C1
Applying landscape ecology for the design and evaluation of marine protected area networks
M Young, L Wedding, M Carr
(2017), pp. 429-462, Seascape Ecology, Hoboken, N.J., B1
J Logan, M Young, E Harvey, A Schimel, D Ierodiaconou
(2017), Vol. 582, pp. 181-200, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Oldendorf/Luhe, Germany, C1
M Young, K Cavanaugh, T Bell, P Raimondi, C Edwards, P Drake, L Erikson, C Storlazzi
(2016), Vol. 86, pp. 45-60, Ecological monographs, Hoboken, N.J., C1
M Young, D Ierodiaconou, M Edmunds, L Hulands, A Schimel
(2016), Vol. 163, pp. 1-13, Marine biology, Berlin, Germany, C1
M Young, M Carr
(2015), Vol. 10, pp. 1-23, PLoS one, San Francisco, Calif., C1
M Young, M Carr
(2015), Vol. 21, pp. 1428-1440, Diversity and Distributions: a journal of conservation biogeography, Weinheim, Germany, C1
M Young, D Ierodiaconou, T Womersley
(2015), Vol. 170, pp. 178-187, Remote sensing of environment, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Spatial abundance patterns and recruitment of a virus-affected commercial mollusc fishery
M Jalali, D Ierodiaconou, H Gorfine, F Christiansen, M Young
(2015), Vol. 22, pp. 472-487, Fisheries management and ecology, Weinheim, Germany, C1
Seascape drivers of Macrocystis pyrifera population genetic structure in the northeast Pacific
M Johansson, F Alberto, D Reed, P Raimondi, N Coelho, M Young, P Drake, C Edwards, K Cavanaugh, J Assis, L Ladah, T Bell, J Coyer, D Siegel, E Serro
(2015), Vol. 24, pp. 4866-4885, Molecular ecology, Chichester, Eng., C1-1
Distribution and abundance of rippled scour depressions along the California coast
A Davis, R Kvitek, C Mueller, M Young, C Storlazzi, E Phillips
(2013), Vol. 69, pp. 88-100, Continental shelf research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1-1
M Young, P Iampietro, R Kvitek, C Garza
(2010), Vol. 415, pp. 247-261, Marine ecology progress series, Oldendorf, Germany, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Patterns of interaction between habitat and oceanographic variable affecting the connectivitity and productivity of invertebrate fish
A/Prof Daniel Ierodiaconou, Dr Mary Young, Dr Craig Sherman
FRDC Grant - Research - Fisheries Research & Development Corporation
- 2017: $35,000
- 2016: $110,000
- 2015: $50,000
Other Public Sector Funding
Benthic habitat characterisation of Western Port Bay
A/Prof Daniel Ierodiaconou, Mr Sean Blake, Dr Alexandre Schimel, Dr Mary Young
- 2015: $13,312
Marine biotope mapping for Victorian coastal waters.
A/Prof Daniel Ierodiaconou, Dr Mary Young, Dr Alex Rattray
- 2018: $89,600
An updated monitoring program for Cape Howe Marine National Park.
A/Prof Daniel Ierodiaconou, Mr Paul Tinkler, Mr Sam Wines, Dr Paul Carnell, Dr Mary Young
- 2019: $45,000
Optimal Management of Overabundant Sea Urchins in Victoria.
Dr Paul Carnell, A/Prof Daniel Ierodiaconou, Dr Eric Treml, Dr Craig Sherman, Dr Adam Miller, Dr Mary Young, A/Prof Peter Macreadie
- 2019: $70,000
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report