Profiles
Jimmy Hortle
Jimmy Hortle
Senior Technical Officer
Room 342 , Taroona - Admin
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Jimmy Hortle is a Senior Technical Officer at IMAS Taroona working within the Fisheries and Aquaculture research centre on salmon farming interactions with the environment. He has a particular interest in soft sediment communities and their use in environmental monitoring of salmon farms.
Biography
Jimmy completed his bachelor of marine science at UTAS in 2014 before joining the Salmon Interactions team to complete his honours. His research under Dr. Jeff Ross gained an understanding of the distribution of Dorvilleid polychaetes around salmon farms in Macquarie Harbour. Following on from this work, he joined the team on a full-time basis in 2016.
Career summary
Qualifications
Degree | Thesis title | University | Country | Date of award |
BSc (Upper 2nd Class Hons) | Understanding the drivers of Schistomeringos loveni (Kinberg, 1865) distribution in Macquarie Harbour and the importance of salmon farm enrichment. | University of Tasmania | Australia | 30/11/2015 |
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Fields of Research
- Pollution and contamination (410599)
Research Objectives
- Aquaculture fin fish (excl. tuna) (100202)
- Fisheries - aquaculture (100299)
Grants & Funding
Funding Summary
Number of grants
1
Total funding
Projects
- Description
- Currently there are 3 real-time environmental monitoring strings deployed in Macquarie Harbour as part of FRDC project 2016-067. This project will continue the maintainance of these strings and provision of the data on the dashboard following the FRDC.The project contract period is for 12 months, but work will initially be commissioned for 3 months and then monthly (to be detailed in contract with TSGA
- Funding
- Tasmanian Salmonid Growers Association ($221,323)
- Scheme
- Contract Research
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Ross DJ; Moreno DA; Hortle JA
- Period
- 2020 - 2022