Ty Hibberd
Title:
Mr
First Name:
Ty
Last Name:
Hibberd
Gender:
Male
Position:
Student
Institution:
University of Tasmania & Australian Antarctic Division
Country:
Australia
Email:
ty.hibberd@aad.gov.au
Phone:
+61 409 808 571
Sector:
Organisms specialised in - other:
Generalist over most major benthic phyla
Technologies and techniques:
Oceanographic Locations:
Oceanographic Locations - Other:
Heard Island
Deep Ocean Vertical Zones:
Deep Sea Habitats:
Involvement in policy or management:
Experience with bodies or processes:
Experience with bodies or processes - Other:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Primary Language:
Anything other contribution:
I can contribute to studies of global or regional patterns of species diversity and gene flow by providing, where possible, species data or material for genetics from Antarctica and the Heard Island region.
Primary Expertise:
Secondary Expertise:
Committees:
Collaborative and Annotation Tools for Analysis of Marine Imagery and Video (CATAMI). Luke Edwards (iVec)
3 priority science questions that need to be answered:
These priority areas are from a fisheries perspective in waters between 200 and 2500 metres (approx.). 1) Ascribe broadscale biodiversity patterns within the extent of fisheries impacts. e.g. model species distributions from point specific data. 2) Quanity the distribution and density of habitat forming taxa (e.g. sponges) which are capable of engineering ecosystem, yet inherently vulnerable to impact from fishing gears. 3) Determine the link between fish density and benthic habitat to determine those forces maintaining high biomasses of economically valuable fish species and how loss of habitat may influence population maintainence.