Associate Professor Douglas Brumley

Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

Environment

Research

How corals ‘breathe’ by stirring the ocean around them

Tiny hair-like appendages on corals generate swirling microscopic currents – an ingenious way to exchange oxygen and nutrients with their surroundings

Environment

The smallest marine microbes share nutrients – briefly

Fleeting interactions between the smallest phytoplankton and bacteria help to shape global ocean productivity

Sciences & Technology

The superheroes of nutrient detection living in our oceans

New experiments and mathematical modelling reveal that bacteria swimming in the oceans are supremely evolved to detect and move towards hard-to-find nutrients