Unlocking the secret lives of marine animals using shells and bones
Using isotopic fingerprints to track the provenance of a commercially valuable species
This study, led by Honours student, Elise Boultby, shows how geochemical markers or fingerprints in gastropod shells can be used to track the provenance of origins of valuable commercial species. Elise tested her research out on wild caught and farmed Australian abalone.
Reading the Biomineralized Book of Life
In this large collaborative paper led by Patrick Reis Santos, the authorship team summarise recent advancements and challenges that lie ahead for otolith geochemistry and it use in fisheries and ecosystem-based management.
Read the paper here
Introducing the “universal marker” concept and how it could be used to track a greater spectrum of marine life
Read our concept paper here
Reconstructing the Environmental Histories of Cephalopods
Read our latest paper here led by Dr Jasmin Martino
Select Publications
2022: Harnessing universal chemical markers to trace the provenance of marine animals
2022: Systematic evaluation of oxygen isotopes in cephalopod statoliths as thermal proxies
2021: Statolith chemistry: a new tool to understand the ecology and provenance of octopus
2020: Experimental support towards a metabolic proxy in fish using otolith carbon isotopes