Biography and expertise
Biography
Tanika Shalders is a Temperate Marine Ecologist at DBCA and Adjunct Lecturer at SCU.
Tanika's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals
Research
Tanika has a BSc (Honours) in Environmental Biology and Coastal Zone Management from Curtin University and a PhD in Climate Change Ecology and Fisheries Science from Southern Cross University with New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries). Tanika's PhD research investigates the impacts of current and near-future climate change on the quality, availability and distribution of nutrients derived from harvested marine resources. As a multidisciplinary researcher, she uses a range of tools to tackle this topic including proximate and elemental analysis, lipid- and metabolomics, statistical modelling and spatial predictions. These skills are further supported by her experience as a technician, research assistant and marine scientist for organisations such as The Department of Biodiversity Conservations and Attractions, MScience and The University of Western Australia and include animal husbandry, leading fieldwork and supporting long-term monitoring programmes, quantitative statistical ecology, scientific writing, and project management.
Other
Tanika's passionate about increasing the transferability of science-based research to real-world applications and the general public and contributes where possible to books, online articles, magazines and government strategies.