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Iain Suthers is involved in teaching and research in broad areas of marine and fisheries research off coastal NSW and the Tasman Sea, in many NSW estuaries, and in the south Coral Sea. My research interests include the early life history of fish, plankton particle size and the relationships with oceanographic variability. I have also been involved in the study of home range, age and reproduction of a temperate reef fish and coral reef fish, the protection of MPAs for pelagic fish, and the responsible re-stocking of NSW estuaries with mulloway. I am supervising six graduate students (three of whom are APA(I), and I have supervised to graduation 10 PhD students and over 30 honours students over the past 13 years. I teach a third year fisheries and oceanography course, coordinate the honours program. I collaborate with Jason Middleton and Mark Baird in School of Maths, and with the Australian Museum, the New South Wales Fisheries department, the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the Canada Department of Fisheries & Oceans.

SEE ALSO

FISHERIES AND MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH FACILITY

AFFILIATIONS

Head of the Fisheries and Marine Environmental Research Facility which was established at UNSW in 1998
Member of Research Vessel Southern Surveyor, Scientific Advisory Committee
Member of the Sea World Research & Rescue Foundation, Scientificc Advisory Committee
Chair of the Austr. Soc. Fish Biology Education Committee.

CURRENT FUNDING

ARC-Discovery Project 2005-2007: " Prediction of fishery year-class-strengths from larval growth and zooplankton size structure"
ARC-Linkage-APA(I), Suthers & Baird, Environmental impact and survival of re-stocked mulloway fingerlings into NSW estuaries (with Great Lakes Council), 2003-2005
ARC-Linkage-APA(I), Suthers, Tuckerman & Baird, Nutrient biogeochemistry in coastal lagoons (with Great Lakes Council), 2003-2005
ARC-Linkage-APA(I), Suthers & Scandol. A Quantitative Analysis of Prawn Harvesting Strategies, (with DPI-Fisheries), 2002-2004
Ship time on RV Southern Surveyor in collaboration with Jason Middleton, School of Mathematics, UNSW "High resolution dynamics of frontal systems and the zooplankton biomass size spectrum"
Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation 2004/05 "Pelagic fish in marine protected areas, using baited underwater video".