Research > Collaborative linkages > PHD scholarship scheme PhD scholarship scheme The SRFME Research Portfolio provides for the award of scholarships for full time postgraduate research leading to the award of a PhD by research at one of Western Australia’s four publicly funded universities. The SRFME PhD Scholarship scheme has had the objective of strengthening and broadening the outcomes from SRFME Core projects, engaging the marine research capacity of WA Universities in SRFME and encouraging collaboration between Universities and scientists/managers in Commonwealth and State Government agencies. The PhD scholarship scheme involves SRFME and WA Universities co-investing in 15 PhD stipends and operating funds. SRFME’s investment into the scheme is about $650,000 over three and a half years. Many of the students who are carrying out the work towards a PhD degree are co-supervised by CSIRO scientists and staff from other commonwealth and state research and management agencies. SRFME has held three annual symposia where the SRFME PhD Scholars present results on the progress of their projects. PhD Scholarship projects > The development and validation of algorithms for remotely sensing case II waters. Wojciech Klonowski, Curtin University > Remotely sensing seasonal and interannual oceanic primary production for WA waters. Leon Majewski, Curtin University > Morphological responses of seagrass meadows to light limitation and their application to environmental quality criteria. Catherine Collier, Edith Cowan University > The role of detached macrophytes for fish production and biodiversity in coastal ecosystems. Karen Crawley, Edith Cowan University > Ichthyoplankton assemblage structure in coastal and shelf waters off Western Australia. Barbara Muhling, Murdoch University > Comparisons of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in marine environments and nearby estuaries in south-western Australia. Michelle Wildsmith, Murdoch University > Uncertainty associated with alternative ecosystem representations. Sara Belmont, Murdoch University > Temporal and spatial variation of sediment composition, redox potential and benthic photosynthesis in semi-enclosed coastal embayments subject to different catchment loading regimes. Alicia Loveless, University of Western Australia. > Biogeochemical processes in seagrass sediments. Kieryn Kilminster, University of Western Australia > The influence of microphytobenthos on nitrogen cycling in sediments. Hugh Forehead, University of Western Australia > Use of surrogates for the rapid assessment of marine biodiversity. Nisse Goldberg, University of Western Australia > Physical and chemical forcing of primary production in shallow coastal waters off southwestern WA. florence Verspecht, University of Western Australia > The Biophysical Oceanography off Western Australia: Microzooplankton. Harriet Paterson, University of Western Australia > Enhancing zooplankton and micronekton biomass estimation and size and species classification based on acoustic remote sensing. Chris Van Etten, Curtin University (withdrawn) > Investigation of the cycling of trace metals and metalloids as contaminants in WA coastal ecosystems. Yi Yuan, Murdoch University (withdrawn)

 

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