People

Principal Investigators

Mary Morgan-Richards

Steve Trewick

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postgraduates

Ka hou ki te whenua, he tūngoungou; ka puta ki te rangi he pepe

[The pupa enters the earth; a moth emerges to the sky]

PhD

Eddie Dowle (biodiversity & rates of evolution)

Briar Smith (speciation biology of ground weta)

Lizzie Daly (ecophysiology & phylogeography)

Jo Fitness (cave weta taxonomy & ecology)

Juan-Carlos Garcia Ramirez (rail phylogenetics & insular speciation)

Steve Pilkington (weka conservation genetics)

Kath Walker (Powelliphanta snail taxonomy & conservation)

Alejandra Oyanedel @ Universidad de Concepcion. Freshwater invertebrates)

MSc

Lena Olley (NZ Falcons)

Tarsha McKean (tree weta hybridisation)

Chau Phing (CP) Ong (fungus gnats and orchids)

Lorraine Peoples (stick insects and sex)

BSc Hon's

Gaia O'Hare (pukeko and their lice)

Emily Koot (peripatus conservation genetics)

Summer Students

Phoebe Donavan (insect diversity)

Order of the Phoenix: Graduate Alumni:
Ka haere te pipi aihe, ka noho te tūmū whakarae.
[The drifting pipi goes off, the headland remains fixed]

Moniqua Nelson-Tunely <greengecko42@hotmail.com> (population biology of skinks); now teaching at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic as Tutor in Environmental Management, School of Applied Science.

Robyn Dewhurst (tree weta dietary choice); now at Department of Conservation, Palmerston North.

Niki Minards (tree weta diet)

Rashmi Kant (PhD - parasitoid wasp/ host interatctions of cabbage aphid and Diaeretiella rapae )

Prasad Doddala (PhD - systematics & ecology of bronze beetles); now studying yellow fever chemical ecology at SLU, Sweden

Lara Shepherd (Post-doc); now works at Te Papa, Wellington

Julia Goldberg <jule.goldberg@gmail.com> (PhD - NZ phylogeography / biogeography); now at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.

Briar Smith (Honours- ground weta); now PhD at Massey University

Ashley Murphy (Honours: gecko body size and genetic cline)

Simon Hills (PhD- marine mollusks); now Post-doc at Massey University

Melissa Griffin (tree weta); now working at Plant & Food Research, Auckland.

Jo Fitness (Msc-geckos); now PhD student at Massey University

Shelley Myers < smye008@aucklanduni.ac.nz >
(Hons project: stick insects); now PhD student at Auckland University

Esta Chappell <>
(MSc thesis: ground weta); now a science writer in China. .

Phoenix robots

Rheyda Hinlo <rheyda.hinlo@gmail.com >
(MSc thesis: Population genetics and conservation of the Philippine crocodile); now National Project Coordinator, Protected Areas & Wildlife Bureau, Philippines.

Renae Pratt <renae.pratt@anu.edu.au>
(PhD thesis: weta phylogenetics); now post-doc Australian National University, working with Marcel Cardillo.

Melissa Jackobson <hunieb@orcon.net.nz>
(Hons project: tree weta); now Environmental Educator for Rotokare Scenic Reserve Trust

Lorraine Cook <lcook@doc.govt.nz>
(Hons project: cave weta); now working for NZ Conservation Department

Christina Rowe <kartoshka999@hotmail.com>
(Diploma project: tree weta); now work at Plant & Food Research, Te Puke

Tarryn wyman < tarryn.wyman@pg.canterbury.ac.nz >
(Hons project: weta diet); now PhD student at University of Canterbury.

Corina Jordan
(Hons project: conservation genetics of giant snails); now working for Fish & Game.

Phoenix group at Christmas