Lesley Alton

I graduated with a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Environmental Science from The University of Adelaide in 2004. For my Honours, I studied the physiology and behaviour of air-breathing fish. From 2006 to 2007 I worked as a Research Officer in the Inland Water Division at the South Australian Research and Development Institute where I was involved in research that assessed the salinity and water quality tolerances of the eggs, larvae and juveniles of native and exotic fish species that live in the Lower River Murray. From 2007 to 2011 I was a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland where I studied how early-life stages of amphibians respond to increased exposure to ultraviolet-B radiation while simultaneously being threatened by predators, experiencing high environmental temperatures, living with a large number of conspecifics, or breathing in hypoxic water. From 2011 to 2015, I worked as research assistant at The University of Queensland, after which I took up my current position as a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University where I study how animals manage their energy budgets in a changing world through physiological acclimation and adaptation and through behavioural changes.