Shaun Thompson MSc
Diversity and relationships of Porrholthele and other New Zealand mygalomorph spiders.
Mari Nakano MSc
Stick insect chemical volatiles and mate choice.
Nimeshika (Nim) Pattabiraman MSc
Spatial genetic of possums for conservation management.
Sam King MSc
Diversity and hybirdisation in Naultinus diurnal tree geckos.
Emily Koot MSc
A clarfication of New Zealand Peripatoides divesity
(Onychophora). Then Phd student at Massey University.
Niki Minards MSc:
Physiological ecology of two tree weta species.
Now at Manawatu Microscopy and Imaging Centre MMIC
Moniqua Nelson-Tunely MSc
Population fragmentation in the small-sclaed skink (Oligosoma microlepis): the consequences of human landscape transformation on a habiatat specialist's distribution, morphology and genetics. Now consultant ecologists with EcoGecko
Benjamin Bridgeman MSc
Wolbachia and New Zealand invertebrates.
Currently PhD in Hopkirk Institute, Massey University.
Louisa Sivyer MSc
Niche-modelling & genetics in Phaulacridium grasshoppers
Currently analytical food technician
Lena Olley MSc
MSc: Spatial partitioning of morphological and genetic variation in the New Zealand falcon (Falco naeseelandiae).
Briar Smith BSc Honours
The distribution, phylogeography and morphology of the New Zealand ground weta, Hemiandrus maculifrons.
Then PhD at Massey University.
Ashley Murphy BSc Honours
The unique origin and maintenance of a hybrid zone within common gecko, Woodworthia maculata, on the south Wellington coast, New Zealand.
Now PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia.
Melissa Griffin MSc
Wellington tree weta (Hemideina crassidens) diet and the effect of some of their dietary choices.
Recently at Plant & Food Research, Auckland.
Jo Fitness MSc
Wellington geckos meet Wairarapa geckos: hybirdisation between two genetically and morphologically distinct populations of the New Zealand common gecko complex (Hoplodactylus maculatus).
Then PhD student at Massey University.
Tarsha McKean MSc
Hybridization in North Island tree weta. Now doing PhD working on development of a sheep model for Alzeimer.s Disease research, at University of Auckland.
Robyn Dewhurst MSc
The diet of tree weta: natural and captive folivory preferences of Hemideina crassidens and H. thoracica.
Shelley Myers BSc Honours
Putting the pieces together; combining genetic techniques to investigate Acanthoxyla's origin. Hybridisation, polyploidy and more).
Currently
Esta Chappell MSc
Morphology, phylogeography and drumming behaviou of a New Zealand ground weta, Hemiandrus pallitarsis.
Now research assistant at Senckenberg Research Insititute, Germany
Gaia O'hara MSc
The lice from four species of rails in New Zealand.
Rheyda Hinlo MSc
Population genetics and conservation of the Philippine crocodile.
Recently National Project Coordinator, Protected Areas & Wildlife Bureau, Philippines.
Renae Pratt PhD
Weta phylogenetics. Recently postdoctoral fellow at Australian National University, working with Marcel Cardillo.
Melissa Jackobson BSc Honours
BSc Honours: tree weta.
Now Environmental Educator for Rotokare Scenic Reserve Trust
Lorraine Cook BSc Honours
Systematics and genetic diversity of New Zealand cave weta (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae)- the genus Gymnoplectron Hutton (1897). Now working for New Zealand Conservation Department
Tarryn wyman BSc Honours
Tree weta as herbivores and seed dispersers.
Then PhD at University of Canterbury. |