Hochuli Lab
Scroll down to see some of the things we've done in the past. Most of the links to people's individual pages are as they were when they left... we take no responsibility for any character judgements you may wish to make based on hairstyles and dress sense. All are listed in alphabetical order, and honours and graduate students are mixed together, just as they were in the lab.
Past Projects & People
Warrick Angus
Project: Habitat use and feeding ecology of the redback spider, Latrodectus hasselti (Co-supervised with Dr Mike Gray, Australian Museum).
Position: Honours Student, 1998
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De-anne Attard
Project: Delving beneath the surface: thermal ecology of a fossorial skink, Saiphos equalis.
Position: Honours Student, 2011
Robert Blackburn
Project: Ecosystem degradation along an urban-rural gradient: linking diversity to ecosystem processes.
Position: Honours student, 2009
Sean Blamires
Project: The ecological and physiological costs of orb weaving spider foraging.
Position: PhD Student, 2007
Beatrice Brennan
Project: Habitat use by the Major Pancake spider (Hemicloea major).
Position: Honours Student, 2002
Susan Burrows
Project: Dieback of Eucalyptus botryoides in urban forest remnants in the Sydney Basin.
Position: MSc (Env) Student, 1999
Evelyn Chia
Project: Habitat use by koalas in a restored landscape (Co-supervised with Prof Ian Hume).
Position: Honours Student, 2001
Fiona Christie
Project: Urban bushland remnants in the Sydney region: biodiversity in Australia's biggest backyard (Co-supervised with Dr Gerry Cassis, Australian Museum, funded by an ARC SPIRT grant).
Position: PhD Student, 2004
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Suzanne Dobbie
Project: Ecological communities as a unit of conservation.
Position: MSc (Env) Student, 1999
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Heloise Gibb
Project: The role of small mammals in regulating trophic relationships in leaf litter assemblages.
Position: MSc Student, 2001
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Sue Giles
Project: The role of small mammals in regulating trophic relationships in leaf litter assemblages.
Position: MSc Student, 2001
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Claire Goldsbrough
Project: The ecology of rock-dwelling fauna of the Hawkesbury sandstone (Co-supervised with Prof Rick Shine).
Position: Honours Student, 1998
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Kristin Graham
Project: Faunal responses to hard and soft edges in Eucalypt forests (Co-supervised with Dr Grant Blackwell).
Position: Honours Student, 2003
Jayne Hanford
Project: Biodiversity Banking Surrogates: are they effective?
Position: Honours Student, 2011
Scott Lassau
Project: The influence of natural barriers, habitat complexity and spatial proximity on arthropod assemblages in the Sydney sandstone area (Co-supervised with Dr Gerry Cassis, Australian Museum, funded by an ARC SPIRT grant).
Position: MSc Student, 1999
Project Effects of road edges on distribution and abundance of ground dwelling invertebrates and small mammals in Sydney, New South Wales
Position: PhD Student, 2005
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Boris Lomov
Project: Does ecological restoration work? Bush regeneration in western Sydney (Co-supervised with Dr David Keith, NSW NPWS, funded by an ARC linkage grant).
Position: PhD Student, 2006
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Petah Low
Project: Direct and indirect effects of host plant quality on insect herbivores.
Position: Honours Student, 2011
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Miguel Matias
Project: Effects of structure of habitat on diversity of benthic assemblages.
Position: PhD Student, 2010
Lauren McIntosh
Project: Nutrient enrichment in urban bushland fragments of Sydney: Effects on the native Angophora costata and the native environmental weed Pittosporum undulatum
Position: Honours Student, 2003
Fiona Powell
Project: Co-extinction on endangered plants: threatened acacias and their affiliate communities (Co-supervised with Dr Gerry Cassis, Australian Museum).
Position: PhD Student, 2011
Adele Reid
Project: Effect of grazing and nutrient inputs on the grassland arthropod diversity and the implications for sustainability (Co-supervised with Dr Gerry Cassis, Australian Museum, funded by Meat and Livestock Australia).
Position: PhD Student, 2004
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Lachlan Robinson
Project: The effect of Asparagus aethiopicus on ant assemblages and seed removal in urban dry sclerophyll fragments.
Position: Honours Student, 2007
Tom Reader
Project: Gregariousness in larval lepidopterans (Royal Society Banks-Alecto Fellow).
Position: Visiting Scholar, 2002
Brendan Ryan
Project: The influence of roads on small mammal ecology in the north-west of Sydney (Co-supervised with Dr Chris Dickman).
Position: MSc (Env) Student, 1999
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James Schlunke
Project: Responses of ant assemblages to revegetation.
Position: Honours Student, 2008
Michelle Sutherland
Project: The nutritional and behavioural ecology of Doratifera casta and Mnesampela privata
Position:Honours Student, 1999
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Celia Symonds
Project: Cospeciation of Plantbugs and Native Cypress Pines (Co-supervised with Dr Gerry Cassis, Australian Museum, partially funded by an NSF Planetary Biodiversity initiative grant).
Position: Honours Student, 2005
Nik Tartanic
Project: Systematics and Sexual Selection in the Phylinae and Orthotylinae (Co-supervised with Dr Gerry Cassis, Australian Museum, funded by an NSF Planetary Biodiversity initiative grant).
Position: 2008
Luke Tilly
Project: Should I stay or should I go? Foraging strategies of orb weaving spiders.
Position: Honours Student, 2010
Scott van Barneveld
Project: Ecology behaviour and physiology of the highly invasive lizard
Position: PhD Student, 2011
Francesca van den Berg
Project: Hot and hungry: thermal biology of sit-and-wait predator in a thermally extreme/nutrient poor environment.
Position: Honours Student, 2009