Associate Professor Thomas Schlacher
BSc(Hons) Salzburg, MSc Vienna, PhD P.Elizabeth
Position: Associate Professor in Marine Science and Head of Discipline - General Science
Tel: +61 7 5430 2847
Fax: +61 7 5430 2881
Email: tschlach@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Introductory Oceanography
- Marine Ecology
- Coastal Ecology and Conservation
Research areas
- Estuarine ecology and conservation
- Coastal pollution biology
- Sandy beach ecology
- Trophic architecture of deep-sea assemblages
- Biodiversity of deep-sea communities, particularly seamounts
Profile
Associate Professor Thomas Schlacher's PhD research was in the estuaries of South Africa and he later graduated from the University of Port Elizabeth in 1996. The main thrust of his current research falls into five areas:
- carbon and nitrogen pathways in estuarine and near-shore food webs, including energetic linkages between landscape elements
- development and testing of new response variables/indicators for pollution monitoring
- spatial scaling of biodiversity of deep-sea communities, particularly on seamounts
- ecology and human impacts on sandy beaches
- the trophic architecture of deep-sea assemblages
While much of Dr Schlacher's field work is done in the coastal waters of eastern Australia, the geographic scope of his research encompasses projects in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic and the South Pacific.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Associate Professor Thomas Schlacher are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
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