Dr. Sasha Whitmarsh

Education

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PhD in Marine Biology, Flinders University, South Australia, 2019

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Bachelor (Honours) in Marine Biology, Flinders University, South Australia, 2015

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Biography & Research Interests

 

Sasha completed her PhD at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Sasha’s research has been conducted in a wide range of habitats and across a diversity of species. She worked with a range of collaborators including state government departments, researchers, private consulting agencies and commercial operators, to incorporate studies linking fish assemblages to white shark tourism activities, dolphin prey abundance, marine protected areas, and other anthropogenic stressors along with methodological development.

 

Her research interests include emerging technologies for ecological sampling, community ecology, and temperate fish ecology. Sasha has worked with National BRUVS working groups on large-scale collaborative projects and throughout her career has watched well over 1,000 hours of footage. Sasha has also had experience working and researching on a variety of coastal and freshwater habitats and across a range of taxonomic groups including macroinvertebrates, marine mammals, sharks and rays, and aquatic plants and vegetation. She has worked as a research assistant and lab manager at Flinders University conducting projects on assessing sampling techniques, shark deterrents, rocky seashore sampling, and aquatic revegetation surveys. Sasha has co-supervised Honours and PhD students and has been involved in teaching numerous topics at Flinders University.

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At Deakin, Sasha’s research will focus on assessing anthropogenic influences using baited underwater video and remote operated video on temperate and tropical fish assemblages.