Jennie Mallela
I grew up in Birmingham in the UK and had plenty of fun gaining a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Bio-geo science from The University of Leeds. I subsequently completed an MSc in Marine Resource Management from Heriot-Watt University where I was lucky to spend much of my time diving the shipwrecks of Scapa Flow, Orkney, documenting their marine biodiversity and exploring the Orkney Islands. I completed my PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University in coral reef communities and carbonate production in fluvially impacted reefs in Rio Bueno, Jamaica (2004). Subsequently, I've worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago assessing the effects of Orinoco and Amazon river runoff on coral reefs. Currently I am an ARC Research Fellow (DECRA) based at the Australian National University.
My research is motivated by an interest in how past, present and future environmental disturbances (natural and anthropogenic) influence reef resilience and reef building processes (e.g. biodiversity, coral recruitment, calcification and bioerosion), and also how such disturbance affects resource management.
I have an interdisciplinary background and broad research interests which includes: ecological and bio-geo chemical processes on coral reefs, reef calcification, bioerosion, sediment dynamics, coral bleaching, carbonate budgets, reef monitoring, geochemical proxies, coral sclerochronology, hurricanes, coral recruitment, biodiversity, land-based stressors, climate change and marine resource management.
For my PhD research I developed a carbonate budget model to assess how river runoff influenced rates and styles of reef development and carbonate accretion in Jamaica. As a Research Fellow at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad, I expanded on this research to incorporate climate change variables into my carbonate budget approach. We designed and implemented a long-term reef monitoring program, assessed the effects of hurricanes and bleaching on coral recruitment and coral disease. We then took cores from coral colonies in order to build proxy records of climate change and terrestrial runoff, used stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) to assess sources of energy and pollution on the reef, and used in-situ experiments to assess reefal calcification in relation to global (e.g. climate change), regional (e.g. Orinoco River runoff) and local (e.g. sewage) disturbances.
My research at ANU now focuses on the effects of land-based runoff on the central GBR and Southern Caribbean. For example, I'm using ecological surveys in tandem with historical time-series gleaned from coral cores to reconstruct environmental change and calcification on the GBR using coral sclerochronology and geochemical proxies (e.g. LA-ICP-MS and EPMA).
Further details:
https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/mallela-phd-j
My research is motivated by an interest in how past, present and future environmental disturbances (natural and anthropogenic) influence reef resilience and reef building processes (e.g. biodiversity, coral recruitment, calcification and bioerosion), and also how such disturbance affects resource management.
I have an interdisciplinary background and broad research interests which includes: ecological and bio-geo chemical processes on coral reefs, reef calcification, bioerosion, sediment dynamics, coral bleaching, carbonate budgets, reef monitoring, geochemical proxies, coral sclerochronology, hurricanes, coral recruitment, biodiversity, land-based stressors, climate change and marine resource management.
For my PhD research I developed a carbonate budget model to assess how river runoff influenced rates and styles of reef development and carbonate accretion in Jamaica. As a Research Fellow at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad, I expanded on this research to incorporate climate change variables into my carbonate budget approach. We designed and implemented a long-term reef monitoring program, assessed the effects of hurricanes and bleaching on coral recruitment and coral disease. We then took cores from coral colonies in order to build proxy records of climate change and terrestrial runoff, used stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) to assess sources of energy and pollution on the reef, and used in-situ experiments to assess reefal calcification in relation to global (e.g. climate change), regional (e.g. Orinoco River runoff) and local (e.g. sewage) disturbances.
My research at ANU now focuses on the effects of land-based runoff on the central GBR and Southern Caribbean. For example, I'm using ecological surveys in tandem with historical time-series gleaned from coral cores to reconstruct environmental change and calcification on the GBR using coral sclerochronology and geochemical proxies (e.g. LA-ICP-MS and EPMA).
Further details:
https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/mallela-phd-j
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