Position
Fish Ecologist
Email
info@mdfrc.org.au
Research Themes
Fish population and community dynamics in regard to natural and imposed flow regimes. Habitat use throughout ontogeny, age and growth, reproductive physiology and recruitment ecology for Australian native fish.
Tertiary Education
B.Sc. in Fisheries management and Aquaculture, Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria 2001.
B.Sc. honours (IIA) in Zoology, School of Agriculture, Faculty of Science and Technology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 2002.
PhD Candidate, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith School of Environment and eWater CRC, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, 2004-2007. Thesis due April 2009.
Reports and Publications
Sharpe, C., Vilizzi, L., Wallace, T., and Fraser, P. (2009) The impact of drought on the distribution of fish communities in the Mullaroo-Creek – Lindsay River complex. A technical report prepared for the Murray-Darling Basin Authority by The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre. Draft Report
Rehwinkel, R and Sharpe, C. . (2009) Gunbower Forrest Fish Survey Spring – Autumn. Progress Report for the North Central CMA. Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Mildura.
Sharpe, C. and Ellis, I. (2008) Assessment of Snag – habitat and fish community relationships in the Pomona priority habitat Reach of the lower Darling River. Progress Report to NSW DPI. Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Mildura.
Wallace, T., Sharpe, C., Vilizzi, L., Rehwinkel, R., and Fraser, P. (2008) The Impact of Drought on Water Quality and Fish Communities in Refuge Pools of the Lower Darling River. Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Mildura.
Mark Henderson, Cherie Campbell, Bernard McCarthy, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Todd Wallace and Clayton Sharpe (2008). The Living Murray Condition Monitoring of Lindsay, Mulcra and Wallpolla Islands 2007/08.Report to the Mallee Catchment Management Authority. Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre. Technical report No. 06/2008.
Vilizzi L, Sharpe C, Conallin A, Meredith S, Whiterod N, Engledow K, Fraser P. (2007). Baseline Water Quality Monitoring for Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands: August 2006 – April 2007. Technical Report 10/07. Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre.
Vilizzi L, Wallace T, Fraser P, Ellis I, Conallin A, Meredith S, Engledow K, Sharpe C, McCasker N. (2007). Native Fish Recruitment and Flood Pulse Water Quality Monitoring on Lindsay Island. Technical Report 07/07, Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Lower Basin Laboratory, Mildura, Victoria.
Scholz, O, Sharpe, C, Fraser, P, Henderson, M, and Ellis, I. (2007) The Living Murray Initiative: Lindsay-Mulcra-Wallpolla Islands and Hattah Lakes Icon Sites 2006-7 Condition monitoring program data. Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre Technical Report prepared for the Mallee Catchment Management Authority.
Vilizzi, L, Conallin, A, Sharpe, C, Ellis, I, Engledow, K, Fraser, P, Meredith, S, McCasker, N, and Wallace, T. (2007). Native Fish Recruitment and Flood Pulse Water Quality Monitoring on Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands. Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre Technical Report prepared for the Mallee Catchment Management Authority.
Richardson, A, Meredith, S, Conallin, A, and Sharpe, C.P. (2005) Status of the Gunbower island Fish Community, September 2005. MDFRC Consultancy Report for the North-Central Catchment Management Authority
Sharpe, C.P., Scholz, O, and Meredith, S.N. (2004) Measuring the effects of environmental flows on Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands: Literature and water quality review. Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre Technical Report 1/2004 (for the Mallee Catchment Management Authority).
Whiterod, N., Meredith, S.N. and Sharpe, C.P. (2004) Predicting the outcomes of future flood events on Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands: Current conditions and microcosm experiments. Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre Technical Report 9/2004 (for the Mallee Catchment Management Authority).
Sharpe, C.P. and Meredith, S. (2003) Measuring the Effects of Environmental Flows on Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands II, literature review. MDFRC LBL Technical Report 11/2003.
Sharpe, C.P (2003) Measuring the Effects of Environmental Flows on Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands, adjacent to the Murray River, Victoria. MDFRC LBL Technical Report 8/2003.
Sharpe, C.P. and Meredith. S. (2003) Water Quality and Literature Review for Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands. MDFRC LBL Technical Report 10/2003.
Sharpe, C.P, Conallin, A, Meredith, S and Roenfeldt, B. (2003) Status of the Cardross Lakes Fish Community, April 2003. A CRC FE Consultancy Report for the Mallee CMA 9/2003.
Meredith, S, Gawne, B, Sharpe, C.P, Whiterod, N, Conallin, A, Zukowski, S. (2002) Dry land Floodplain Ecosystems, influence of flow pattern on fish production. MDFRC LBL Technical Report 1/2002.
Scholz, O, Conallin, A, Hoggard, B, Meredith, S, Sharpe, C.P, and McCasker, N. (2003) Monitoring the Darling Anabranch, NSW: a pilot study. MDFRC LBL Technical Report 1/2003.
Conference and Workshop Presentations
Sharpe, C. (2008) Threats to native fish communities in the Mallee. Mallee. Ecology Conference, Wentworth, NSW. May 2008.
Sharpe, C. (2006) Hydraulic drivers of golden perch reproduction in the Darling River: Temporal Patterns Australian Society for Limnology Annual Conference, Albury, NSW
Sharpe, C. and Meredith, S. (2004) Measuring the Effects of Environmental Flows on Lindsay and Wallpolla Islands. Murray-Darling Association Annual Conference, Mildura, Victoria.
Sharpe, C and Meredith, S. (2003). The effects of habitat on growth rate of gudgeons (Hypseleotris spp) in an Australian lowland river. Australian Society for Limnology Annual Conference, Warrnambool, Victoria.
