Ryan Simms

Role

My main roles in the UWA Marine Ecology Group research lab include video analysis, conducting fieldwork and fish identification.

About me

I grew up in rural NSW and completed my Bachelor of Marine Biology at the University of Technology, Sydney. I went on to work with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority on their Crown of Thorns Starfish control program. I was part of this project for 6 years, during which I was able to explore the length of the Great Barrier Reef and witness it’s vastness and variety of marine flora and fauna. I moved to Perth in early 2024 in the hopes to discover what the Western coast of Australia had to offer. I had the pleasure of joining the Marine Ecology Group at UWA, where I now work as a research assistant analysing videos of underwater communities and assisting in fieldwork.

Contact

Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre
School of Biological Sciences (M470)
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009

ryan.simms@uwa.edu.au