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Dr Manisha Shakya

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Aquatic Ecology - School of Environmental and Rural Science

Biography

Having completed a PhD degree in Freshwater ecology/ecotoxicology, Manisha is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory in the School of Environment and Rural Science. Currently, she is studying the base of aquatic foodwebs in the northern Murray Darling Basin, looking at sources and the quantity and quality of carbon available to aquatic biota and how we can use environmental water to protect or improve aquatic ecosystems. She also collaborates with researchers from the Pollution Science Research Group from UNE to investigate the impacts of pollutants in aquatic organisms' biomolecular composition (protein, amino acids and fatty acids) to understand how pollutants can alter the nutritional landscape in aquatic food web.

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