ARC Future Fellow & Lab Leader

Zoë is a marine ecologist, science communicator and passionate advocate for accessible science. See Zoë's GoogleScholar and LinkedIn profiles for publications and career history.

PhD Student

Arieli is undertaking a PhD on seafood provenance and fraud. She has a Master's in fisheries biology from the Federal University of São Paulo (and has a passion for cephalopods!). She is supervised by Zoë Doubleday and UniSA’s Justin Payne.

PhD Student

Louise is a former research assistant at MARIS Lab. She is pursuing a PhD with a focus on using sclerochronology for the conservation of threatened and commercially important shark species. Louise is supported by an Elevate Scholarship from the Academy of Technological Science and Engineering and supervised by Zoe Doubleday, Justin Payne, and Bonnie Holmes (Uni Sunshine Coast).

PhD Student

Didik is pursuing a PhD in Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) to facilitate sustainable transboundary fishing along the Australia-Indonesia border. He holds a Master of Environmental Management from Flinders University. Didik is supported by an Australia Award funded by the Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His PhD research is supervised by Zoë Doubleday, Brianna Le Busque, and Melissa Nursey-Bray.

Honours Student

Kaitlyn completed her Bachelor of Science at the University of Wollongong. She is now undertaking her Honours with a focus on barnacle geochemistry, supervised by Zoë.

Adjunct Research Fellow

Jasmin is a former Research Associate at MARIS labs. She is now a Research Fellow at UNSW, with an Adjunct position at UniSA. She co-supervised Erica Durante.

Masters Student

Shanie is undertaking her master’s on narwhal geochemistry at the University of Ottawa. She supervised by Clément Bataille (uOttawa) and co-supervised by Zoe Doubleday. Shanie will be visiting us for 12 months in 2025.

PhD Student

Neve is undertaking a PhD and investigating the distribution and population biology of invasive pearl oysters in Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Neve is supervised by UniSA’s Craig Styan and co-supervised by Marty Deveney (SARDI) and Zoe Doubleday.

PhD Student

Beth is investigating the trophic ecology of the famous giant Australian cuttlefish in South Australia, which come together in their 1000s to breed in Spencer Gulf. Beth is supervised by Lauren Meyer and Ryan Baring (Flinders Uni), and co-supervised by Mike Steer (SARDI) and Zoe Doubleday.

Elise Boultby


Rachel Newsome


Madi Mclatchie


Courtney Cheesman

Chathuri Nisansala

Celia Chareyron

Divya Daryanani

Elise Boultby

James Peyla (Fulbright Fellow)

Qiaz Hua

Erica Durante

Jasper Willoughby

Louise Hosking