Fraser Campbell
I am a recent Marine Biology and Oceanography graduate with an interest in sociality, culture, and social learning in animals. As part of the Crab Lab, I am focused on sociality and sensory biology in an intertidal isopod, Sphaeroma serratum. Through behavioural experiments, we are trying to understand drivers of aggregation to investigate if true sociality exists in these evolutionarily ancient marine crustaceans.
Projects
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Gina and I are working with Ari to understand how the salinity of seawater influences the behaviour of individual hermit crabs. We know hermit crabs vary in the way different individuals react to different threats and stimuli, but we don’t yet know how a range of abiotic variables impacts these responses and how they correlate with the anatomy and physiology of individual animals. Together we are finding out just how important salinity is to a hermit crab’s ability to respond to a “threat”.
