SEMINAR: Developing modelling tools to understand the marine environment: building predictive models of biodiversity for Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.

Quantitative methods are increasingly being used to understand the marine environment. My presentation will include a summary of my previous experience in developing modelling tools applied to the marine environment, ranging from tools to assist aquaculture development in coastal systems, to global models of whale shark occurrence and to models of biodiversity in coral reef systems. I will detail the developments of my recent work on building predictive models of fish species richness and abundance in Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, as the first outcome of my post-doctoral research here at UWA (co-sponsored by AIMS and CSIRO).