Robyn Cumming
Dr Robyn Cumming is a Collection Manager and Researcher at Queensland Museum Network, based at Museum of Tropical Queensland.
She is a taxonomist and ecologist and is responsible for the management, preservation and databasing of museum collections of tropical marine invertebrates and vertebrates, including bryozoans (lace corals, sea mats, moss animals), crustaceans, echinoderms and marine mammals.
Robyn’s research targets contemporary issues in biodiversity science, with focus on Museum of Tropical Queensland collections of the Phylum Bryozoa (approx. 25,000 specimens), in the fields of taxonomy, systematics, ecology and biogeography.
Robyn’s research background is in coral reef ecology: population dynamics of reef-building corals and coral reef molluscs, and impacts of predation and bleaching on corals.
Projects
Current Projects
- Ecology and taxonomy of coral reef and inter-reefal Bryozoa of the Great Barrier Reef.
- Taxonomy and biogeography of Bryozoa of the Gulf of Carpentaria and across northern Australia.
- Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Lanceoporidae (Bryozoa: Smittinoidea).
- Project DIG: Revealing microscopic details using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).
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