Polar and deep-sea marine biogeographer, ecologist and taxonomist of sponges and their invertebrate communities
Research focus on:
Developing new metabarcoding methods to explore the hidden invertebrate diversity of sponges
Post ice-shelf collapse impacts on sponge communities in the Southern Ocean
Deep-sea diversity in the NW Pacific Ocean
Fenner School of Environment & Society
Australia National University
Email: rachel.downey@anu.edu.au
Twitter: @rachel_marine and @asccc_news
Researchgate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel_Downey