Paul South

Lab Technician
Phone: 03-364-2987 ext 7023

As a research assistant within the MERG group I work on a varying range of projects and lend laboratory and technical assistance to students and senior researchers when needed.  Most of my projects concern patterns and mechanisms of recruitment in the rocky intertidal zone.  At the moment my duties include an experiment to test the importance of canopy forming species in controlling community structure and their response to large scale disturbance.  I, along with Kerry, also do MERG’s Quarterly Sampling Programme, whereby we monitor diversity over gradients in six sites on the East Coast of the South Island.

Presentations

South, P.M. & Schiel, D.R.  Ephemeral in space and time: diversity following disturbance on the subtidal-intertidal fringe. NZMSS, Auckland, University of Auckland, 2009.

Joint New Zealand Marine Sciences Society and Australian Marine Science Association Conference 2008: Christchurch, New Zealand. An assessment of the collector of choice: the popular pot-scrubber, Tuffy™. What do settlement collectors measure? South, Paul, Schiel, David R.

Vth Asian Pacific Phycological Forum 2008: Wellington, New Zealand. An invasion of Undaria pinnatifida (Phaeophyta: Laminariales)in the low-intertidal zone: quantifying the impacts of an uninvited guest. South, Paul, Schiel, David R.

International Temperate Reef Symposium 2009: Adelaide, Australia. Disturbance-mediated spread of an invasive kelp in southern New Zealand: Undaria pinnatifida interactions with the southern bull kelp Durvillaea antarctica. South, Paul, Schiel, David R.