BSc Hons (Monash), PhD (Qld)

Professor & Deputy Head of School

Research Interests

My primary research interests are in the biology of marine mammals and seabirds, particularly with respect to Antarctic and sub-antarctic ecosystems. This research encompasses a variety of disciplines including energetics and metabolism, population dynamics and socio-ecology. I am currently running several major programmes including foraging ecology of Antarctic seals, biology of sub-antarctic seabirds (primarily penguins), cetacean studies in Tasmanian waters and ecology and management of Australian seals and seabirds. Mark Hindell is also the director of the School of Zoology's Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit .

Research Areas:

• Antarctic Wildlife Biology  Read More

Teaching

I contribute to teaching at levels. I teach Quantitative Methods to 1st year Biology, Ecology to 2nd year Zoology, Conservation Biology in the 3d year Fisheries Wildlife Management Unit, and I am Unit coordinator for the 3d year Antarctic Ecology Unit. I also supervise a number of honours students each year.

Units

• KZA212 - Functional Biology of Animals
  
• KZA225 - Evolution, Ecology & Society
  
• KZA351 - Antarctic Ecology
  
• KZA407 - Zoology (Honours) Full time
  

Selected Publications:

• Hindell, M.A., Lea, M., Morrice, M. and McMahon, 2001, 'Metabolic limitations on dive duration and swimming speed in the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina', Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, pgs. 790-798

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• Caitlin Vertigan - Investigating the relationship between marine resources and foraging and reproductive success in two seabird species in Southern Tasmania
• Effects of spatial and temporal variation in marine productivity on energy acquisition in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina)
• Sophie Bestley - Understanding the timing and spatial extent of juvenile southern bluefin tuna annual migrations
• Megan Tierney - The diet of Adelie penguins determined by novel, non-invasive methods.
• Tamara van Polanen Petel - Measuring the effects of human activity on Weddell seal
• Judy Horsburgh - Winter foraging success of southern elephant seals in relation to sea-ice extent and winter water formation
• Stephen Wall - Using fatty acids as indictors of diet in the Southern Elephant Seal
• Bruce Deagle - Molecular genetic analysis of prey remains in predators scats
• Julia Sommerfeld - Foraging ecology, reproductive success and population trends of Masked Boobies Sula dactylatra in the Western Pacific
• Virginia Andrews-Goff - Winter foraging ranges of Weddell seals
• Tim Reid - Getting Fleshy-Footed Shearwaters off the Hook, Modeling the Foraging Ecology of the Flesh-Footed Shearwater in Relation to Fisheries and Oceanography".
• Janeane Ingram - Population monitoring and grazing pressure of three macropods on Maria Island National Park, Tasmania
• Emma Kingston - Aspects of habitat usage, diet, and competition between Hooded and Red-capped plovers in Tasmania.
• Mary-Anne Lea - Winter foraging locations of Southern Ocean predators in relation to stochastic variation in sea-ice extent
• Malcolm OToole - Mapping and Modelling the On-Shelf Use of the Juvenile Southern Elephant Seal across the Kerguelen Plateau
• Andrea Walters - Quantifying trophic links in Antarctic marine predators