Staff, Students & Associates

Conservation Biology Masters Students (2011/12)

Christine Moore

Email: christine.moore@uct.ac.za

Christine was raised in Kelowna, British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada but studied at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. At university she gained much practical experience working on a range of projects in Canadian ecosystems including an assistantship with the University of Notre Dame working in the endangered Gary Oak Meadow ecosystem on an Assisted Migration project. In 2009 she received a BSc Hons specialising in Evolution and Ecology. She then undertook an internship with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, spending a year working on an Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) project. This approach to aquaculture focuses on mimicking a trophic structure within farmed aquaculture sites, allowing the outputs of one tropic level of cultivated species (in this case Atlantic Salmon) to provide the inputs to cultivated species at lower tropic levels (Blue Mussels, kelp, etc.) to reduce environmental impacts. Christine’s primary research interests lie in projects that emphasise the human component to conservation and those which explore alternatives to traditional approaches, with particular regard for the sustainable use of ecosystems. In her free time Christine loves travelling, reading and playing ultimate frisbee.

Mini-thesis

Network analysis in a socio-ecological system: The role of socio-economic interaction in disease transmission in the avian flu outbreak in Oudtshoorn, South Africa (Supervisor: Prof. Graeme Cumming)