Dr Richard Zavalas
Research Fellow
Education
PhD, Marine Mapping, Deakin University, Australia, 2018
Research Interests
Richard's career focus has straddled both marine mapping research and industry based projects as an environmental scientist and commercial diver.
Within the Deakin Marine Mapping Group Richards research focused on surveying and classifying seafloor habitats and relating physical seafloor structure to the spatial ecology of marine fishes and benthic biota. Richard completed his bachelor and honours degree in Environmental Science (Marine Biology) at Deakin University. And has since completed his PhD in 2018 with the Deakin Marine Mapping Group based at Warrnambool, Victoria. Richard's PhD focused on investigating the spatial ecology of fish in Victoria's Marine Protected Areas network. In the course of this research Richard completed extensive Baited Underwater Video surveys of Victorian marine parks in conjunction with Parks Victoria and Deakin University.