Dr Lavenia Ratnarajah
Marine Biogeochemist
Heard Island, sub Antarctic Southern Ocean
Welcome!
I am fascinated by how organisms interact with each other and with their surrounding environment, and how these interactions will change in the future with the ongoing impacts of climate change. Since 2007 I have had the privilege of working in research organisations in Australia, Malaysia, Ecuador, France, the US and UK whilst undertaking fieldwork in marine and terrestrial environments in Asia, Australia, North and South America, and in the icy continent of the south - Antarctica.
I am currently a Research Associate in carbon biogeochemistry at the Australian Antarctic Programme Partnership at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Scroll through to find out what I have done, am currently doing, and super interested in doing in the future!
Research interests
Understand the processes underpinning current and future patterns of nutrient and carbon cycling
Examine how changes in nutrient cycling drive changes in ocean productivity
Investigate how changes in ocean productivity influence fisheries and higher trophic levels