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Current Staff & Students

Past students

Academic Staff

William Megill, PhD Lecturer (Lab Director)
Roger Ngwompo,PhD Lecturer
Graham Outram Enterprise Officer

Technical Staff

Stephen Dolan Laboratory Technician

Research Officers

Lily Chambers, PhD Role of the lateral line in swimming control of fishes

PhD

Jennifer Wladichuk, BSc Baleen whale infrasonics
Keri Collins, MEng (with Roy Quilliam & Adrian Bowyer) Biomimetic manta ray-inspired propulsion for small submersibles
Sabine Graf, Dipl Biol (with Philippe Blondel & Sally Clift) Novel mechanism of dolphin hearing
Benjamin Williamson, MSc (with Martin Balchin) Underwater holonomic motion in 3D
Jennifer Brown, MEng Hydrodynamics of fish swimming in unsteady flow

MPhil/MSc Research

Ryan Ladd, MEng (with Roger Ngwompo) RoboPuffin
Andrew Liszewski, MEng Kinematics and muscle activation patterns of fish swimming in unsteady flow

Research Staff

Robert Templeton, MEng Development of satellite tracking tags for black sea turtles
Jackie Maud, MSc Biodiversity of British Columbia mysids and the benthic ecology of Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico
Rianna Burnham, BSc Biogeography of British Columbia mysids and the feeding ecology of sea turtles in Laguna San Ignacio, Mexico

MSc Taught