Skye Wassens

Personal profile

Associate Professor Skye Wassens is an internationally recognised ecologist specialising in the ecology and conservation of wetland dependant amphibians. Her research on the responses of amphibians to environmental flooding and amphibian water requirements has led the way for the inclusion of amphibians into environmental flooding programs throughout the Murray-Darling Basin. Her research on wetland dependent frogs currently underpins environmental flooding strategies in the Lowbidgee floodplain and Yanga National Park, the Murrumbidgee Water Sharing Plan and management of wetlands in the Mid Lachlan River. She has lead a number of major field based research projects on the relationship between flooding and amphibian dispersal, tadpole ecology, the relationship between native and introduced freshwater fish and amphibian recruitment during wetland flooding, temporal activity patterns of wetland dependant frogs and large scale drivers of amphibian habitat occupancy in regulated rivers and floodplain wetlands.

She is leader of the Murrumbidgee Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project

Research Interests

Aquatic Ecology
Ecology and conservation of wetland dependent amphibians

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Charles Sturt University

2006

Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours), Charles Sturt University

1999

External positions

Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) BHP Billiton's Litoria aurea Compensatory Habitat Program (CHP) as part of the Hunter River Remediation project (member), BHP Billiton and Ventia Utility Services

River Red Gum Adaptive Management Science Advisory Committee (member) (cross border NSW and Victoria), Environment, Energy and Science, NSW

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Research Output

202 Citations
8 h-Index
49 Commissioned report
29 Article
4 Communication
2 Chapter
6 More

Amphibian conservation in a managed world

Mathwin, R., Wassens, S. & Bradshaw, C. J. A., 01 Apr 2020, Conservation Bytes.

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Professional blog or online forum

Open Access

A range extension for the endangered Grey Snake Hemiaspis damelii (Günther 1876) in the Murrumbidgee catchment, southern NSW.

Michael, D., Bourke, G., Paris, D. & Wassens, S., 14 Feb 2020, In : Australian Zoologist. 40, 3, 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Learning from concurrent adaptive management in multiple catchments within a large environmental flows program in Australia

Watts, R. J., Dyer, F., Frazier, P., Gawne, B., Marsh, P., Ryder, D. S., Southwell, M., Wassens, S. M., Webb, J. A. & Ye, Q., 04 May 2020, In : River Research and Applications.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Manipulating water for amphibian conservation

Mathwin, R., Wassens, S., Young, J., Ye, Q. & Bradshaw, C., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Conservation Biology.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Murrumbidgee Wetlands Monitoring: 2020-2021 water year calendar

Michael, D., Bourke, G. & Wassens, S., 20 Apr 2020.

Research output: Resource/document › Communication

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2 Downloads (Pure)

Prizes

2015 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence (Research Excellence)

Watts, Robyn (Recipient), James Abell (Recipient), Allan, Catherine (Recipient), Carmen Amos (Recipient), Bellio, Mariagrazia (Recipient), Bradley K. Clarke-Wood (Recipient), Finlayson, Max (Recipient), Tamsin Greenwood (Recipient), Hall, Andrew (Recipient), Howitt, Julia (Recipient), Humphries, Paul (Recipient), Jenkins, Kim (Recipient), Kopf, Keller (Recipient), McCasker, Nicole (Recipient), Robinson, Wayne (Recipient), Veronique Janel (Recipient), Wassens, Skye (Recipient), Wolfenden, Ben (Recipient) & Zander, Alek (Recipient), 05 Aug 2015