Current Research Projects

Ecophysiology

• Muscle physiology of aestivating frogs
• Feasting after fasting: Digestive physiology of burrowing frogs
• Thermal physiology of burrowing frogs
• Regulation of metabolic depression in aestivating frogs
• Crocodile salt glands and osmoregulation
• Swimming energetics in crocodiles 
• Salt and water balance of bull sharks and rays
• Diving and digestion in filesnakes
• Effects of temperature, diet and population on the flesh quality of cultured Barramundi
• Physiological thermoregulation in reptiles
• Thermal physiology of polar fish

Conservation physiology

• Thermal physiology of polar fish
• Effects of UV-B radiation on frogs
• Habitat and nest-site selection of freshwater turtles
• Impact of dams on bimodal breathing turtles
• Crocodilian conservation physiology

Biotelemetry

• Acoustic tracking of estuarine crocodiles
• Diving behaviours and physiology of freshwater and estuarine crocodiles
• Habitat and nest-site selection of freshwater turtles
• Acoustic tracking of bull sharks
• Satellite tracking of large estuarine crocodiles
• Diving behaviours of bimodally respiring turltes
• Acoustic tracking of bimodal respiring turtles