Biography and expertise

Biography

Sophia is a Research Associate (Intervention Risk Assessment) within The Ocean & Atmosphere Technology Lab at Southern Cross University.

Research

As Research Associate for the TOATL group, Sophia supports the delivery and documentation of risk assessments.

As a remote pilot, she also coordinates drone missions for the TOATL group.

Sophia’s PhD research formed part of the Cooling and Shading sub-program of RRAP. She used numerical modelling of the coral-symbiont relationship to investigate the role of light and temperature in coral bleaching. Sophia collected environmental forcing data from laboratory experiments and examined coral bleaching through physical, physiological, and photochemical metrics to validate the physiological component of a numerical model.

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Organisational affiliations

Research Associate, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University

Education

Southern Cross University (Australia, Lismore) - SCU
2021–2025, PhD

Thesis: 'The role of light and temperature in coral bleaching: exploring the physiological response'

University of Essex (United Kingdom, Colchester)
2018–2019, MSc Tropical Marine Biology

Thesis: 'Influence of Altitude on Tropical Marine Habitat Classification using Fixed-Wing UAV Imagery'

Swansea University (United Kingdom, Swansea)
2015–2018, Bachelor of Science

Marine Biology