A seminar series focusing on sustainability and environmental impact.
You are warmly invited to the fourth Murdoch Green Economy Series.
Date: Monday, November 4 2024
Time: 3.30 pm to 6.30 pm
Venue: Kaplan Campus, Nexus @ Level 9
331 North Bridge Road, Odeon Towers, Singapore 188720
Registration: https://greeneconomy4.eventbrite.sg
Identifying and mitigating threats to the viability of animal populations is highly dependent on our understanding of the ecological requirements of individuals of a species.
Large, mobile marine vertebrates provide unique challenges in this regard, as they are not easily observed, and subsequently basic ecological data is often lacking.
Advances in sensor technology fuelled by the proliferation of personal technology are having an equally transformational impact on the study of marine megafauna as they have had on humanity.
A plethora of sensors from animal-attached miniature video camera, motion-sensors provide rare opportunities to quantify the activities and behaviours of marine megafauna when out of sight.
When coupled to modern machine learning techniques, these can provide unparalleled insight into the underwater world of the most intractable species. Here, I will illustrate the application of these emerging “bio-logging” tags in the study of marine megafauna, while highlighting how these tags will continue to provide both fundamental insight into the biology of poorly understood species, but also how these data can provide insight into the impacts of human activities.
About the speaker:
Adrian Gleiss is a physiological and behavioural ecologist interested in exploring the interactive roles of behavioural and physiological processes that determine the success of individual animals and populations. Although Adrian has worked primarily on fishes, he has published on a broad range of species from jellyfish to marine turtles in both freshwater and marine systems.
Adrian is currently an ARC DECRA research fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems and a Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University.
Past speakers include: