Victoria Cole

Victoria Cole serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Southern Cross University with over 10 years of post-PhD experience in experimental marine ecology. Her research centers on shellfish reef ecosystems (mussels and oysters), investigating biodiversity responses to anthropogenic stressors including ocean warming, acidification, pollution, urbanization, and harvesting.

Her primary expertise spans marine ecology, restoration ecology, and experimental methodologies, with significant contributions to field-based climate stressor manipulation, novel in situ bivalve filtration measurement techniques, microplastics impact assessment on oyster reefs, and invertebrate fisheries monitoring systems. This work directly informs shellfish reef restoration efficacy under global change pressures.

Dr. Cole actively recruits graduate students for research master's and doctoral programs, emphasizing applied conservation outcomes through her developed restoration monitoring frameworks and fisheries management protocols.