CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
Jake Martin (Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, commenced 2024)
Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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I am an Alfred Deakin Research Fellow in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, working with Professor Timothy Clark and his group. I am also a part-time Researcher (Forskare) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), where I am a Swedish Research Council Formas Mobility Fellow within the Aquatic Ecology research group.
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I am an ecologist and ecotoxicologist who blends laboratory, field, and evidence synthesis approaches to understand the impacts of human-induced rapid environmental change on wildlife. Primarily my research focuses on the ecological effects of emerging chemical pollutants in aquatic ecosystems (but also includes noise pollution, thermal pollution, and invasive species). Environmental pollution with synthetic chemicals is recognised as one of the fastest-growing agents of global change, exceeding that of many well-recognised environmental megatrends (e.g. rising CO2 emissions, land loss to agriculture, and biodiversity loss). I believe it is essential that we understand if, and how, emerging pollutants impact wildlife and ecosystems.
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Within this broader topic, my key research themes are: Behavioural ecotoxicology (specifically, behavioural variation, collective behaviour: can a single individual tell the collective story, field ethology), Host-microbiota interactions, and Evidence synthesis. As part of my Fellowship at Deakin, I aim to characterise the risk posed by antimicrobials on fish microbiota and connect potential effects to metabolism, development, behaviour, and population outcomes.
For more information about my research, please visit my home page at https://jakemartin.org