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About

Teaching

EV3201: Coastal and Marine Management and Conservation (Level 3; CNS & TSV)
EV5502: Advanced Geographic Information Systems (Level 5; TSV)
EV5701: Coastal and Marine Management and Conservation (Level 5; CNS & TSV)
MB3204: Conserving Marine Wildlife: Sea Mammals, Birds, Reptiles (Level 3; TSV)
MB5000: Advances in Marine Biology (Level 5; TSV)
MB5204: Conserving Marine Wildlife: Sea Mammals, Birds, Reptiles (Level 5; TSV)
SC5900: Special Topic (Level 5; TSV)
SC5901: Special Topic 1 (Level 5; TSV)
SC5902: Special Topic 2 (Level 5; TSV)
SC5903: Literature Review (Level 5; TSV)
SC5909: Minor Project and Seminar (Level 5; TSV)

Interests

Research

Marine wildlife biology and management
Plastic pollution impacts & solutions
Protected area management

Experience

2010 to present - Senior Lecturer, James Cook University (Townsville)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Awards

2011 - JCU Supervisor of the year award
2009 - JCU Early Career Excellence in Research Award

Publications

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

Diggins R, Grimm J, Mendez D, Jones K, Hamann M, Bell I and Ariel E (2023) Confirmed feasibility of a satellite tracker attachment method on small juvenile hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 704. pp. 119-130
Hutchings M, Hamann M, Smithers S, Daley E and Birtles R (2023) Color pattern complexity in dwarf minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) of the northern Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Marine Mammal Science, 39 (3). pp. 780-793
Miller M, Motti C, Hamann M and Kroon F (2023) Assessment of microplastic bioconcentration, bioaccumulation and biomagnification in a simple coral reef food web. Science of the Total Environment, 858.
Hamann M, Shimada T, Duce S, Foster A, To A and Limpus C (2022) Patterns of nesting behaviour and nesting success for green turtles at Raine Island, Australia. Endangered Species Research, 47. pp. 217-229
Jensen M, Eguchi T, Fitzsimmons N, Mccarthy M, Fuentes M, Hamann M, Limpus C, Bell I and Read M (2022) Integrating Climate Change and Management Scenarios in Population Models to Guide the Conservation of Marine Turtles. Bulletin of Marine Science, 98 (2). pp. 131-154
Kophamel S, Illing B, Ariel E, Difalco M, Skerratt L, Hamann M, Ward L, Méndez D and Munns S (2022) Importance of health assessments for conservation in noncaptive wildlife. Conservation Biology, 36 (1).
Marangoni L, Davies T, Smyth T, Rodriguez A, Hamann M, Duarte C, Pendoley K, Berge J, Maggi E and Levy O (2022) Impacts of artificial light at night in marine ecosystems—A review. Global Change Biology, 28 (18). pp. 5346-5367
Miller M, Santana M, Carsique M, Motti C, Hamann M and Kroon F (2022) Temporal patterns of plastic contamination in surface waters at the SS Yongala shipwreck, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Environmental Pollution, 307.
Perez M, Limpus C, Hofmeister K, Shimada T, Strydom A, Webster E and Hamann M (2022) Satellite tagging and flipper tag recoveries reveal migration patterns and foraging distribution of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from eastern Australia. Marine Biology, 169.
Webster E, Hamann M, Shimada T, Limpus C and Duce S (2022) Space-use patterns of green turtles in industrial coastal foraging habitat: Challenges and opportunities for informing management with a large satellite tracking dataset. Aquatic Conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems, 32 (6). pp. 1041-1056
Barr C, Hamann M, Shimada T, Bell I, Limpus C and Ferguson J (2021) Post-nesting movements and feeding ground distribution by the hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) from rookeries in the Torres Strait. Wildlife Research, 48 (7). pp. 598-608
Duncan E, Broderick A, Critchell K, Galloway T, Hamann M, Limpus C, Lindeque P, Santillo D, Tucker A, Whiting S, Young E and Godley B (2021) Plastic Pollution and Small Juvenile Marine Turtles: A Potential Evolutionary Trap. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8.

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 126+ research outputs authored by Prof Mark Hamann from 2002 onwards.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

Ecological Society of Australia - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment

Investigating the behavioural ecology of diving and feeding in a cryptic marine mammal: the Dugong

Indicative Funding: $5,920 over 1 year
Summary: As air-breathing, bottom-feeding marine mammals, dugongs must dive to survive and thrive. Quantifying the diving and feeding behaviours of dugongs in three dimensions is a missing link in the science basis for the conservation of this Vulnerable species. This project will use advanced sensing technology to understand how seagrass biomass and dugong activity and energetics influence their diving and feeding behaviors. The resultant improved fine-scale understanding of these behaviors will provide important new information about their risk from vessel strike and the potential energetic consequences of habitat loss associated with extreme weather events and human disturbance.
Investigators: Renae Lambourne, Helene Marsh, Christophe Cleguer and Mark Hamann (College of Science & Engineering, Research Division and TropWater)
Keywords: Dugong dugon; Movement behaviour; Diving behaviour; biologging

Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment - The Assessment of Marine Turtle Stocks at Great Risk from Climate Change

Marine turtles and climate change

Indicative Funding: $51,818
Summary: Climate change is a recognised threat impacting Australian marine turtle populations. It is most evident on nesting beaches through the influence of rising temperatures and sea levels. The Australian Government recognises the threat and lists it as one of the highest-level risks in the Recovery Plan for Marine Turtles in Australia. In response the Australian Government?s Department Agriculture Water and Environment developed an Approach to Market for provision of a synthesis and review of all information necessary to enable understanding of the risk and vulnerability of nesting turtles from each stock to climate change and to support adaptation planning. In response we propose the delivery of a systematic review of biophysical information and climate model outputs for all stocks of marine turtles in Australia. We are confident of successful delivery of the project based on our collective globally recognised reputation as experts in marine turtle biology and conservation and employment of a research assistant for the duration of the project. Our response details how we will deliver the project, potential risks and suggestions for the workshop, and the experience of our team.
Investigators: Mark Hamann, Scott Smithers, Nicola Mitchell, Richard Reina, Graeme Hays and Colin Limpus (College of Science & Engineering, University of Western Australia, Monash University, Deakin University and QLD Department of Environment and Heritage Protection)
Keywords: Marine Turtle; Climate Change; Synthesis; Australia; Coastal; Marine

United States Fish & Wildlife Service - Contract Research

Hawksbill turtles of the Ocean and Pacific Oceans

Indicative Funding: $10,000 over 1 year
Summary: Review of Literature on the populations of hawksbills in the Indian Ocean (Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest) and Pacific Oceans (East, North Central, South Central, Southwest, West Central, West Pacific/South East Asia) RMUs (2013-2020).
Investigators: Mark Hamann (College of Science & Engineering)
Keywords: Turtles; Hawksbill; Review; Literature; Pacific Ocean; Indian Ocean

Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd - Research Grant

Green turtle satellite tracking data analysis and reporting

Indicative Funding: $60,000 over 2 years
Summary: The project aims to understand (2) the patterns of habitat use and home range of foraging green turtles in Port Curtis? (2) How green turtles use habitats located within and immediately adjacent to port infrastructure in the western and southern sections of the Port, such as jetties and navigation channels? And (3) What are the patterns of movement and foraging behaviour of green turtles that shift between inside and outside the Inner Port habitats (i.e. from Pelican Banks to offshore of Curtis Is)?
Investigators: Mark Hamann, Emily Webster and Stephanie Duce in collaboration with Colin Limpus and Takahiro Shimada (College of Science & Engineering, QLD Department of Environment and Heritage Protection and Australian Institute of Marine Science)
Keywords: Turtle; Tracking; Gladstone; Behaviour

Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd - Research Grant

Green turtle satellite tracking data analysis and reporting

Indicative Funding: $60,000 over 2 years
Summary: The project aims to understand (1) The patterns of habitat use and home range of foraging green turtles in Port Curtis (2) How green turtles use habitats located within and immediately adjacent to port infrastructure in the western and southern sections of the Port, such as jetties and navigation channels (3) What are the patterns of movement and foraging behaviour of green turtles that shift between inside and outside the Inner Port habitats (ie from Pelican Banks to offshore of Curtis Is)?
Investigators: Mark Hamann, Emily Webster and Stephanie Duce in collaboration with Colin Limpus and Takahiro Shimada (College of Science & Engineering, QLD Department of Environment and Heritage Protection and Australian Institute of Marine Science)
Keywords: Turtle; Behaviour; Tracking; Gladstone

Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd - Research Grant

Increase understanding of flatback turtle habitat use - using satellite telemetry

Indicative Funding: $98,000 over 3 years
Summary: In the Australian Government's Reef 2050 plan there are several key knowledge gaps mentioned for flatback turtles. Our research project aims to build upon, and add value to, existing datasets to complete these gaps in knowledge. We aim to (1) examine habitat use of flatback turtles breeding in the Broadsound region of Queensland (2) Assess inter-nesting habitat use of flatback turtles for multiple breeding sites in GBRWHA (3) Determine parrterns of migratory and foraging behaviour of flatback turtles. Our research outputs will be provided to Australian and State Government staff and industry bodies to improve management of threats to flatback turtles.
Investigators: Mark Hamann and Takahiro Shimada in collaboration with Colin Limpus (College of Science & Engineering, Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water and the Environment)
Keywords: Marine Turtle; Conservation; Habitat Use; Management; Flatback Turtle; Tracking

Australian Research Council - Linkage - Projects

Ecological valuation tools to protect seagrass during coastal development

Indicative Funding: $490,000 over 4 years, in partnership with the Gladstone Ports Corporation Ltd ($450,000)
Summary: Seagrasses provide ecosystem services (fisheries, nutrient cycling, primary productivity) worth trillions of dollars, but this capacity is threatened by coastal development. In Australia, port developments are considered a major threat to seagrass ecosystems, but resource managers lack accurate information about their potential impacts and mitigation measures. Focussing on differences between shallow and deep seagrasses within the Great Barrier Reef, this project seeks to develop a world-first spatial valuation tool that will allow resource managers and policy makers to minimise impact of port development on seagrass ecosystems, thereby ensuring that Australia?s seagrasses continue to provide ecosystem services essential to our well-being.
Investigators: Michael Rasheed, Rod Connolly, Mark Hamann, Peter Macreadie, Helene Marsh and Marcus Sheaves in collaboration with Megan Ellis (TropWater, Griffith University, College of Science & Engineering, University of Technology Sydney and Gladstone Ports Corporation)
Keywords: Seagrass; Coastal Development; tropic fate; Ecosystem Services; ports

Qld Department of Environment and Heritage Protection - Research Grant

Satellite tracking of marine turtles from Raine island

Indicative Funding: $131,252 over 2 years
Summary: This project will investigate the temporal and spatial distribution of habitat use and behaviour for adult female green turtles that breed at Raine Island and will provide valuable information to the Raine Island Recovery Project to impelemnt management actions at Raine Island.
Investigators: Mark Hamann and Takahiro Shimada in collaboration with Colin Limpus (College of Science & Engineering and QLD Department of Environment and Heritage Protection)
Keywords: Turtle; Conservation; Tracking; Reef; Raine Island

Supervision

Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Primary or Secondary Advisor.

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

Re-thinking the assessment and monitoring of large-scale coastal developments for improved marine megafauna outcomes (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Investigating the fine-scale behavioural ecology of dugongs. (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Factors driving Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle) interactions with seagrass meadows within coastal foraging habitats (Masters , Secondary Advisor/AM)
Exploring Fine-Scale Habitat use by Green Turtle (Chelonia Mydas) in Port Curtis with Satellite Telemetry (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Impacts of plastic ingestion on green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Uruguayan waters. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Status, trends and habitat use of sea turtles in NSW. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Movement and Habitat Assessment of Natator Depressus and Lepidochelys Olivacea in the Gulf of Carpentaria. (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Unregulated Rivers and the Ecology of Bimodally Respiring Turtles in North Queensland (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Investigating the long term Viability and Resilience of the Northern Great Barrier Reef Green Turtle Population based on Hatchling Production and Hatchling Sex Ratio (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Marine Turtle Conservation in Southeast Asia (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)

Completed

Understanding stakeholder involvement in the policy and management of migratory taxa in the Australian marine environment: a case study approach (2019, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
From people to reefs: marine debris and plastic pollution in North Queensland (2020, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Ecological fate of microplastics in a tropical marine environment (2022, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
Using acoustic and satellite tracking data to better understand the factors associated with marine mammal habitat use and movements within urban coastal environments: dugongs in Moreton Bay, Queensland (2022, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
Addressing sources of data deficiency for sea turtles and fisheries in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Socio-economic drivers affecting marine turtle conservation status: causes and consequences (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)
Using hydrodynamic models to understand the impacts and risks of plastic pollution (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)

Data

These are the most recent metadata records associated with this researcher. To see a detailed description of all dataset records, visit Research Data Australia.

Hamann, M. (2017) Flatback dispersal scenarios. James Cook University
Wildermann, N. (2017) Metadata to run the SLIM model to simulate flatback post-hatchling dispersal in the Great Barrier Reef. James Cook University

Collaboration

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