Recently Will travelled to Nicaragua in Central America to sample Neotropical cichlids. The project involved collecting cichlids across Lakes Nicaragua and Managua.
Lab retreat in Hobart
The research group recently spent three days in Hobart for some team bonding. Here we are about to get stuck into some local Tasmanian produce for dinner.
ISBE Poster prize
Congratulations to Will, who won best poster prize at the International Society for Behavioural Ecology Conference in New York. His poster was titled “Who care’s more? brood defence behaviours in a Neotropical cichlid fish”.
Australian Society for Fish Biology and Australian Society for Limnology Joint Congress and award success
The ASFB/ASL joint congress was held in Darwin in July this year, with Nick M and Krys attending. Highlights included special sessions on Science Communication in the Public Sphere, co-organised by Krys, and an overall conference focus on indigenous engagement. Krys received the ASFB’s Gilbert P. Whitley Award (Senior) for an outstanding oral presentation on fish or fisheries for her talk on dispersal behaviour in desert gobies. Both Nick and Krys were appreciative of generous Society support via travel grants.
Thanks to all the fish
The Faculty of Science at Monash has produced a series of short videos as part of its Science Stories series to capture the people behind the science. Check out Bob’s video HERE
Madrid Lab work
As part of an ongoing international collaboration, Will conducted analysis on cichlid samples collected from Nicaragua, at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid, Spain and at the Universität Basel, Switzerland between March and June.
