Heather Burgess
Postgraduate
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My PhD focuses on the modelling of the reef building coral Montastraea annularis population following a severe category 5 hurricane. In particular I use the Population Projection Matrix (PPM) method and the Integral Projection Model (IPM) method. The results of these two methods are compared, and used to project the effect of multiple hurricanes on a coral population.
Of interest is the improvement of current modelling techniques to enable a better fit of the models as well as a greater accuracy in predictions of future behaviour.
