Dr Craig Aaron Radford
PhD (Auckland), MSc (Canterbury), BSc (Waikato)
Research | Current
My research interests are varied and include sensory physiology of fish (including sharks) and crustaceans, vocal communication in fish, recruitment processes in fish and crustaceans and the biological role of underwater sound.
I am particularly interested in the sensory physiology in fish which has been the basis of two productive international collaborators Professor Dennis Higgs (University of Windsor, Canada) and Professor Allen Mensinger (Marine Biological Laboratory, USA). My other interest is in the biological role of ambient underwater sound and in particularly the role of soundscape ecology in the marine environment.
Some examples of current projects are; the role the lateral line plays in fish sound source localisation, vocalising behaviour of the New Zealand Bigeye, using passive acoustics as a environmental monitoring tool, and the role of acoustics in the competitive patch foraging between large pelagic predators.
Teaching | Current
Mar 702 Techniques in Marine Science
BioSci 329 - The biology of fish
Postgraduate supervision
Postgraduate research opportunities
- Role of the lateral line in sound source localisation
- Multisensory processing of sensory cues in fish
- Ontogenetic hearing abilities of crustaceans
- Animal acoustic communication – characterising fish sounds and their context
- Effects of anthropogenic noise on the biological role of ambient underwater sounds
- Using passive acoustic recording as an environmental monitoring technique
- Shallow water sound propagation
- Using genetics and morphology to phylogenetically characterise the family Pempheridae
- Using microCT and MRI as tools to characterise sensory structures in fish
Current post-graduate projects
- The contribution of anthropogenic noise to the Hauraki Gulf - Rosalyn Putland
- Charactersing the effects of antibiotics of the fishes lateral line - Christine Kieble
- Bigeyes or bigears: do bigeyes use their vocalisation as a contact call - Lucinda van Ooestrom MSc
- Using passive acoustics as an environmental monitoring tool – Sydney Harris MSc
Past postgraduate projects
- Larval settlement dynamics of snapper, Carina Sim-Smith – PhD
- Influence of anthropogenic sound on crab behaviour, Matt Pine – PhD
- Ontogenetic hearing development in fish, Paul Caiger - MSc
- Fish Vocalisation: Understanding its biological role from temporal and spatial characteristics, Shahriman Ghazali – PhD
- Ambient underwater sound: measuring the importance of spatial variability and its effect on late-stage larval crabs, Jenni Stanley – PhD
- The influence of habitat type on fish recruitment to standard monitoring unitsin northern New Zealand, Philippa Kohn - MSc
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Cardinal, E. A., Radford, C. A., & Mensinger, A. F. (2018). Potential role of the anterior lateral line in sound localization in toadfish (Opsanus tau). The Journal of experimental biology, 221 (Pt 23).10.1242/jeb.180679
- Mensinger, A. F., Putland, R. L., & Radford, C. A. (2018). The effect of motorboat sound on Australian snapper Pagrus auratus inside and outside a marine reserve. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (13), 6438-6448. 10.1002/ece3.4002
- Putland, R. L., Merchant, N., Fracas, A., & Radford, C. A. (2018). Vessel noise cuts down communication space for vocalizing fish and marine mammals. Global Change Biology, 24 (4), 1708-1721. 10.1111/gcb.13996
- Putland, R. L., Montgomery, J. C., & Radford, C. A. (2018). Ecology of fish hearing. Journal of Fish Biology10.1111/jfb.13867
Other University of Auckland co-authors: John Montgomery - Radford, C. A., Putland, R. L., & Mensinger, A. F. (2018). Barking mad: The vocalisation of the John Dory, Zeus faber. PloS one, 13 (10)10.1371/journal.pone.0204647
- Putland, R. L., Ranjard, L., Constantine, R., & Radford, C. A. (2018). A hidden Markov model approach to indicate Bryde’s whale acoustics. Ecological Indicators, 84, 479-487. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.09.025
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/44254
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Rochelle Constantine - Montgomery, J. C., & Radford, C. A. (2017). Marine bioacoustics. Current Biology, 27 (11), R502-R507. 10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.041
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/42833
Other University of Auckland co-authors: John Montgomery - Putland, R., Constantine, R., & Radford, C. (2017). Exploring spatial and temporal trends in the soundscape of an ecologically significant embayment. Scientific Reports, 7.10.1038/s41598-017-06347-0
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/36179
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Rochelle Constantine
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