Morane Le Nohaic

Morane’s interest for marine ecology started as she volunteered in a Sea Turtle Conservation Centre in French Polynesia during her high school years. She graduated in 2014 from a Bachelor degree in Biology at Rennes 1 University (France), followed by an Environmental Management and Coastal Ecology Master degree at La Rochelle University (France) during which she helped establish baseline surveys of green turtle foraging grounds in a Cameroonian National Marine Park. With a growing interest in coral reef ecology, she moved to Perth (WA) in 2016 to study the impacts of the 2015/2016 El-Niño induced heatwave on Western Australia inshore reefs for her Master thesis, with a focus on the naturally heat-resistant coral communities of the Kimberley region, under the supervision of Dr Verena Schoepf and Prof Malcolm McCulloch at the University of Western Australia. She then continued her studies (short-term courses in laboratory techniques, sustainability, and land management) in Australia to explore different science career opportunities until she joined the Marine Spatial Ecology Lab at the University of Queensland to start her PhD with Professor Peter Mumby. Morane’s research aims to help understand how the Great Barrier Reef’s connectivity can be undermined by climate change.

Publications :

Le Nohaïc, M., Ross, C.L., Cornwall, C.E. et al. Marine heatwave causes unprecedented regional mass bleaching of thermally resistant corals in northwestern Australia. Sci Rep 7, 14999 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14794-y