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Originally from the UK, Amy completed her BSc(Hons) at Swansea University, UK. She completed her MSc at James Cook University under the supervision of Prof. Geoff Jones and Dr Naomi Gardiner. Here she looked at the ability of newly recruited coral reef fishes to orientate toward their preferred micro-habitat type through the use of chemosensory cues. Amy’s PhD research focuses on fish-sponge associations in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, specifically how solitary and structurally complex sponge species are important as a source of shelter and/or food for local coral reef fish species. She is supervised by Professors Geoff Jones and Mark McCormick.