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professional website.
This website aims
to provide on-line exhaustive information about my background, skills and
interests to professionals, students and future ecologists.
I hope you will
find what you are looking for.
Mel
Bio: I
grew up in a fishing town situated between limestone cliffs in upper Normandy
in France. I undertook my MSc (Ecology) at Paris 11 University and did my
research project at Charles Darwin University, where I examined the diving
behaviour of nesting Olive Ridley Turtles in northern Australia (see publications). The
extraordinary diversity of people, landscapes and species in the Pacific led me
to spend more than four years in the region to expand my knowledge and gain
experience in conservation science. I worked on various research projects in
terrestrial and marine science in Australia for the Research Institute for the Environment and
Livelihoods (formerly School for Environmental Research at Charles Darwin University), in New Zealand
for the Leigh Marine Laboratory
(Auckland University), and in New
Caledonia for the French Research
Institute for Development (IRD) before I felt ready for the next step. I am
currently undertaking a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Bob Pressey
(JCU) and Dr. Serge
Andrefouet (IRD) at the Australian
Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. I will
be evaluating, for Solomon Islands, the potential of coral reef habitat maps to
serve as proxies for information on biodiversity, for use in conservation
planning.
Key words: ecology • conservation • environment • biodiversity • population • modelling • marine vertebrates • marine ecology • GIS • remote sensing • telemetry • marine turtles • coral reefs ...
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