2015: Finalist Australian Academy Science, Nancy Millis Medal

2011: Finalist Eureka Prize People's Choice Science Award

2011: Finalist Eureka Prize Animal Protection, Research & Innovation

2008-2010: Ambassador, Australian Institute of Policy & Science Tall Poppy Program for outstanding scientific research and communication

2009: F.G. Wood Memorial Prize, International Society Marine Mammalogy (along with Hogg, PhD student)

2007: Research Award, Australasian Association of Zoological Parks & Aquaria

2005: NSW Tall Poppy Award awarded by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science for outstanding scientific research and communication

Predator-prey interactions, communication, Antarctic wildlife

My research aims to understand ecological patterns in mammals, specifically what the ecological and evolutionary consequences are of being a certain size, adopting a foraging or locomotory strategy etc. I’m interested in understanding the trade-offs between physiology, life history and environment balanced against phylogeny and past history.

Tripovich, J.S., Klinck, H.,Nieukirk, S.L., Adams, T., Mellinger, D.K., Balcazar, N.E., Klinck, K., Hall, E.J.S., Rogers, T.L. (in press). Temporal segregation of calls in sympatric Antarctic (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia) and pygmy (B. m. brevicauda) blue whales. Journal of Mammalogy. Balcazar, N., Tripovich, J., Klinck, H., Nieukirk, S., Mellinger, D., Dziak, R., Rogers, T. (in press) Calls reveal population structure of the elusive blue whale. Journal of Mammalogy. Meade, J., Ciaglia, M.B., Slip, D.J., Negrete, J., Márquez M.E.I., Rogers, T. (2015) Spatial patterns of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in relation to sea-ice. Marine Ecology Progress Series.521:265-275 17 2015 doi:10.3354/meps11120 Nelson TM, Apprill A, Mann J, Rogers TL, Brown MN. (2015). The marine mammal microbiome: current knowledge and future directions. Microbiology Australia, 36(1), 8-13. Tucker, M.A., Ord, T. and Rogers T, (2014) Evolutionary predictors of mammalian home range size: body mass, diet and the environment. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23(10), 1105-1114. Tucker, M.A. and Rogers T. (2014) Examining predator-prey body size, trophic level and body mass across marine and terrestrial mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1797), 20142103. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.2103 Rogers T.L. (2014) Source levels of the underwater calls of a male leopard seal. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(4), 1495-1498. doi:10.1121/1.4895685. Attard M, Parr W, Archer M, Hand SJ, Rogers TL, Wroe S (2014) Virtual Reconstruction and Prey Size Preference in the Mid Cenozoic Thylacinid, Nimbacinus dicksoni (Thylacinidae, Marsupialia). PLoS ONE, 9(4), e93088. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093088 Tucker MA, and Rogers TL (2014) Examining the Prey Mass of Terrestrial and Aquatic Carnivorous Mammals: Minimum, Maximum and Range. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e106402. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106402 Palmer C, Brooks C, Parra GJ, Rogers T, Glasgow D and Woinarski J (2014) Estimates of abundance and apparent survival of coastal dolphins in Port Essington harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Wildlife Research, 41(1), 35. doi:10.1071/WR14031. Palmer C, Parra GJ, Rogers T, Woinarski J (2014) Collation and review of sightings and distribution of three coastal dolphin species in waters of the Northern Territory, Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology, 20(1), 116-125. doi:10.1071/PC140116. 20(1): 116–125. Kreiss, C.M., Boebel, O, Bornemann, H., Figueroa, H., Kindermann, L., Klinck, H., Klinck, K., Plötz, J., Rogers, T.L., Van Opzeeland, I.C. (2014) Call characteristics of high-double trill leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) vocalizations from three Antarctic locations. Polarforschung, 83(2), 63-71. hdl:10013/epic.44471.d001 Rogers TL, Ciaglia MB, Klinck H, Southwell C (2013) Density Can Be Misleading for Low-Density Species: Benefits of Passive Acoustic Monitoring. PLoS ONE, 8(1), e52542. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052542 Nelson, T.M., Rogers, T.L., Carlini, A.R. and Brown, M.V. (2013) Diet and phylogeny shape the gut microbiota of Antarctic seals: a comparison of wild and captive animals. Environmental Microbiology, 15(4), 1132-1145. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12022 Nelson TM, Rogers TL, Brown MV (2013) The Gut Bacterial Community of Mammals from Marine and Terrestrial Habitats. PLoS ONE, 8(12), e83655. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083655 Forcada, J., Trathan, P., Boveng, Boyd, I., Burns, J., Costa, D., Fedak, M., Rogers, T., Southwell, C. (2012) Responses of Antarctic pack-ice seals to environmental change and increasing krill fishing. Biological Conservation, 149(1), 40-50. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2012.02.002 Southwell, C., Bengtson, J., Bester, M., Schytte Blix, A., Bornemann, H., Boveng, P., Cameron, M., Forcada, J., Laake, J., Nordøy, E., Plötz, J., Rogers, T., Southwell, D., Steinhage, D., Stewart, B.S., Trathan, P. (2012) A review of data on abundance, trends in abundance, habitat use and diet of ice-breeding seals in the Southern Ocean. CCAMLR Science, 19: 1-26. Lima, N., Rogers, T., Acevedo-Whitehouse, K and Brown, M.V. (2012) Temporal stability and species specificity in bacteria associated with the bottlenose dolphins respiratory system. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 4(1), 89-96. doi:10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00306.x Tripovich, J.S., Purdy S.J., R., Hogg, C and Rogers, T.L (2011) Toneburst-evoked auditory brainstem response in a leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(1), 483. doi:10.1121/1.3514370 Attard, M., Chamoli, U., Ferrara, T., Rogers, T. and Wroe, S. (2011) Skull mechanics and implications for feeding behaviour in a large marsupial carnivore guild: the thylacine, Tasmanian devil and spotted-tailed quoll. Journal of Zoology, 285(4), 292-300. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00844.x