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Clément Mathieu Tremblin

Overview of thesis

Ocean Warming alongside increasingly intense marine heatwaves threaten marine species and ecosystems. Temperate seagrass species are already experiencing substantial losses and decline due to significant seawater temperature increases. While warming is known to affect plant physiology and survival, its effects on the reproductive processes that sustain seagrass populations remain predominantly unknown. Clément PhD work will investigate the effect of temperature upon seagrass reproduction and it linked influences on flowering, fruit production and seedling recruitment across a natural latitudinal thermal gradient from Shark Bay to the Great Southern Region. Clement aims to combined multiple distinctive techniques and its application from different timescales. Some of his works will aims to historically reconstruct flowering events in past Posidonia australis meadows, phenological tracking from flowering induction to mature fruiting developments, and use of translocation from specific sed sourcing meadows. The outcome of this field-based data will be to improved predictions of the timing, duration and reproductive capacity of P. australis across its Western Australian range, grounded in empirical thermal tolerance data and long-term historical records of flowering performance. And how current restoration practices, can be enhanced restoration practice through the integration of population-specific seedlings thermal tolerance data into future distributional models of Posidonia australis.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science Marine Biology (2021 -2024) – The University of Western Australia, Western Australia
  • Master of Science by Research (2024-2026) - Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
  • Rescue Diver
  • First Aid, and Advanced Resuscitation

Research

Research Interests

  • Seagrass phenology and physiology
  • Climate change
  • Palaeoecology, and micropalaeontology
  • Shallow and intertidal ecosystems
  • Taxonomy and molecular ecology of benthic foraminifera

Scholarships and Awards

  • 2026 – Forrest Scholar PhD Scholarship by the Forrest Research Foundation
  • 2025 – Allen Awardee by the Australian Marine Science Association (Narm, 2025)
  • 2025 – Edith Cowan Postgraduate Additional Funds Scheme
  • 2024 – Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow Master Scholarship
  • 2024 – Joseph A. Cushman Award for Student Research by the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research (based in the U.S.A).
  • 2024 – UWA representative at the ANZIC Marine Geoscience Masterclass, International Ocean Discovery Program (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program)
  • 2023 – Joseph A. Cushman Student Travel Award for Student Travel by the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research (based in the USA).

Supervisors

  • Dr Marlene Wesselmann
  • Professor Kathryn McMahon

Contact

Clément Mathieu Tremblin
PhD Student
Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research 
School of Science
Email: c.tremblin@ecu.edu.au

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