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Sophia Ellis
MSc(trpMarBio)
Research Associate (RRAP)
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Reseach Technician
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Research Associate (Risk Assessments)
Orchid ID
0000-0002-0133-4307Biography
Sophia is a Research Associate (Intervention Risk Assessment) within The Ocean & Atmosphere Technology Lab at Southern Cross University.
Sophia's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals
Research
As Research Associate for the TOATL group, Sophia supports the delivery and documentation of risk assessments.
As a remote pilot, she also coordinates drone missions for the TOATL group.
Sophia’s PhD research formed part of the Cooling and Shading sub-program of RRAP. She used numerical modelling of the coral-symbiont relationship to investigate the role of light and temperature in coral bleaching. Sophia collected environmental forcing data from laboratory experiments and examined coral bleaching through physical, physiological, and photochemical metrics to validate the physiological component of a numerical model.