Our team
Research Leaders: Associate Professor David Morgan and Dr Stephen Beatty
Academics: Associate Professor Alan Lymbery, Dr Susan Kueh and Associate Professor Phil Nicholls
Adjunct Researchers: Dr Michael Klunzinger, Dr Brendan Ebner, Dr Gavin Partridge, Greg Jenkins and Richmond Loh, Dr Howard Gill
ARC DECRA: Dr Adrian Gleiss
PhD students: Mark Allen, Brad Norman, Karrisa Lear, Shuting Pan, Tom Ryan, Le Ma and Mikayla Morine
MPhil students: Erin Kelly
Hounours students: Leah Botton, James Laolada, Gary Ogston
Research staff: Mark Allen, jmailto:j.keleher@murdoch.edu.au, Jeff Whitty
General enquiries to: fish@murdoch.edu.au
Current Research Projects
- Protecting threatened fishes in the South West Linkages Target Area
- Pilbara freshwater fish field guide and documentary (funded by Rangelands NRM & State NRM)
- Conserving south-western Australia's endangered freshwater fishes (funded by State NRM)
- Climate change and implications for Australia's freshwater fish
- Examining south-western Australia's aestivating fish
- Tracking Black Bream and Sea Mullet
- Tracking the movements of Goldfish
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Role of groundwater in maintaining fish populations
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Serpentine River aquatic fauna
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Effect of Lernaea cyprinacea on native and feral fishes
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Goldfish control
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Hay River fishes
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Constructed wetlands for treating aquaculture effluent
Previous Research Projects
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Fitzroy River freshwater fishes
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Feral fishes in Western Australia
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Marron biology
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Gilgie biology
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Yabbies in WA
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Fishways
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Dam draindowns
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Fishes of Lake Kununurra
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Northern River Shark in the Kimberley
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Bull Sharks in the Fitzroy River
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Fortescue River fishes
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Pilbara fish survey
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Tilapia in WA
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Goldfish Control Programme
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Ellen Brook and Brockman River aquatic fauna
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Swordtails
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One-spot Livebearers
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Salinisation
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Trout Minnow biology
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Common Jollytail biology
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Salamanderfish biology
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Balston's Pygmy Perch biology
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Freshwater Cobbler biology
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Diets of Rainbow Trout
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Redfin Perch biology
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Impact of Gambusia on native fishes
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Hybridisation of terapontids
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Diets of tropical fishes
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Environmental of inland saline aquaculture
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New production technologies for inland saline aquaculture