Stephanie Avery-Gomm
PhD Student
School of the Environment
Possingham Lab Group
Fuller Lab Group
Researcher biography
Stephanie commenced her PhD at The University of Queensland in October 2015, supervised by Professors Hugh Possingham and Richard Fuller. Before moving to Australia, Stephanie worked as an environmental assessment biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and as a seabird research biologist with Environment Canada. In 2013, she earned her MSc from the University of British Columbia, where she worked with Professor John Richardson and Dr Jordan Rosenfeld.
Book Chapter
Provencher, Jennifer F., Borrelle, Stephanie, Sherley, Richard B., Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Hodum, Peter, Bond, Alex, Major, Heather L., McCoy, Karen D., Crawford, Rory, Merkel, Flemming, Votier, Stephen, Reynolds, Michelle, Hatfield, Jeff, Spatz, Dena and Mallory, Mark (2018). Seabirds. World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation Volume III: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts. (pp. 133-162) London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-805052-1.00007-3
Journal Articles
Gerwing, Travis G., Allen Gerwing, Alyssa M., Choi, Chi-Yeung, Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Clements, Jeff C. and Rash, Joshua A. (2021). Re-evaluation of solutions to the problem of unprofessionalism in peer review. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 6 (1) 4. doi: 10.1186/s41073-020-00107-x
Bayraktarov, Elisa, Ehmke, Glenn, Tulloch, Ayesha I. T., Chauvenet, Alienor L., Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, McRae, Louise, Wintle, Brendan A., O'Connor, James, Driessen, Joris, Watmuff, James, Nguyen, Hoang Anh, Garnett, Stephen T., Woinarski, John, Barnes, Megan, Morgain, Rachel, Guru, Siddeswara and Possingham, Hugh P. (2021). A threatened species index for Australian birds. Conservation Science and Practice, 3 (2) e322. doi: 10.1111/csp2.322
Buxton, Rachel T., Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Lin, Hsein-Yung, Smith, Paul A., Cooke, Steven J. and Bennett, Joseph R. (2020). Half of resources in threatened species conservation plans are allocated to research and monitoring. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 4668, 4668. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18486-6
Provencher, J. F., Liboiron, M., Borrelle, S. B., Bond, A. L., Rochman, C., Lavers, J. L., Avery-Gomm, S., Yamashita, R., Ryan, P. G., Lusher, A. L., Hammer, S., Bradshaw, H., Khan, J. and Mallory, M. L. (2020). A Horizon Scan of research priorities to inform policies aimed at reducing the harm of plastic pollution to biota. Science of the Total Environment, 733 139381, 139381. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139381
Gerwing, Travis G., Allen Gerwing, Alyssa M., Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Choi, Chi-Yeung, Clements, Jeff C. and Rash, Joshua A. (2020). Quantifying professionalism in peer review. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 5 (1) 9, 9. doi: 10.1186/s41073-020-00096-x
Provencher, Jennifer F., Borrelle, Stephanie B., Bond, Alexander L., Lavers, Jennifer L., van Franeker, Jan A., Kuhn, Susanne, Hammer, Sjurour, Avery-Gomm, Stephanie and Mallory, Mark L. (2019). Recommended best practices for plastic and litter ingestion studies in marine birds: collection, processing, and reporting. Facets, 4 (1), 111-130. doi: 10.1139/facets-2018-0043
Lu, Zhe, De Silva, Amila O., Provencher, Jennifer F., Mallory, Mark L., Kirk, Jane L., Houde, Magali, Stewart, Connor, Braune, Birgit M., Avery-Gomm, Stephanie and Muir, Derek C. G. (2019). Occurrence of substituted diphenylamine antioxidants and benzotriazole UV stabilizers in Arctic seabirds and seals. Science of the Total Environment, 663, 950-957. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.354
Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Walker, Tony R., Mallory, Mark L. and Provencher, Jennifer F. (2019). There is nothing convenient about plastic pollution. Rejoinder to Stafford and Jones “Viewpoint – Ocean plastic pollution: A convenient but distracting truth?”. Marine Policy, 106 103552, 103552. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103552
Provencher, J. F., Avery-Gomm, S., Liboiron, M., Braune, B. M., Macaulay, J. B., Mallory, M. L. and Letcher, R. J. (2018). Are ingested plastics a vector of PCB contamination in northern fulmars from coastal Newfoundland and Labrador?. Environmental Research, 167, 184-190. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2018.07.025
Gerber, Leah R., Runge, Michael C., Maloney, Richard F., Iacona, Gwenllian D., Drew, C. Ashton, Avery-Gomm, Stephanie, Brazill-Boast, James, Crouse, Deborah, Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca S., Hall, Sarah B., Maguire, Lynn A., Male, Tim, Morgan, Don, Newman, Jeff, Possingham, Hugh P., Rumpff, Libby, Weiss, Katherine C. B., Wilson, Robyn S. and Zablan, Marilet A. (2018). Endangered species recovery: a resource allocation problem. Science, 362 (6412), 284-286. doi: 10.1126/science.aat8434
Thesis
Avery-Gomm, Stephanie (2020). Plastic pollution and conservation of imperilled seabird species. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.232