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Ron Thresher
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Ron is a marine ecologist with diverse interests, ranging from effects of climate on recruitment variability of inshore fish and crustaceans and management of invasive species to use of deep-sea corals as indicators of paleo-climate and oceanography. He got his Ph.D. in fish behavior and ecology at the University of Miami, and did post-doctoral work at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Sydney, and joined CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research in 1983. He was the foundation head of the CSIRO Centre for Research on Introduced Marine Pests (CRIMP) and since 1997, he has lead a project aimed at developing genetic technologies for controlling introduced pest species (with a particular emphasis on carp). He has had a long interest in the use of the chemical composition of otoliths (“ear stones”) in fish as possible markers of their movements and ecology, and recently broadened that interest to include analysis of the similar composition of deep-sea corals as indicators of long-term changes in ocean conditions and its implications for both understanding climate variability, the biodiversity and ecology of marine organisms and the viability of deep-sea reef communities. Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. GPO Box 1538, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Associate Professor Tim Ward conducts research to support the ecologically sustainable utilization and conservation of living marine resources. His Ph.D. was on the impacts of demersal trawlers on the sea snakes of northern Australia. Currently, Tim leads the Wild Fisheries Program for the the South Australian Research and Development Insitute (Aquatic Sciences). He has led major national projects and published extensively on the biology and ecology of pelagic fishes. As an ex-commercial fisherman, Tim maintains a strong interest in assisting fishing industry to mitigate the ecological impacts of fishing. Tim has led several large multidisciplinary studies on the benthic and pelagic ecology of the Great Australian Bight. In his roles as an Associate Professor at Flinders University and affiliate senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Tim has supervised honours and doctoral students across a range of disciplines. He has published approximately 40 scientific papers and 90 peer-reviewed reports.
Marie is the Knowledge Adoption Manager at the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, at Griffith University, a role which includes the coordination of eight Adaptation Research Networks, including the Network for Marine Biodiversity and Resources. Marie has an environmental science background, and over 10 experience years working in the field of natural resource management, with particular interests in water resource management and policy, and in making scientific information more readily available and useful to decision makers at all levels. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Griffith University. Ph: +61 7 3735 7786 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr Evan Weller is a Post-doctoral Fellow in Physical Oceanography at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Floreat. His interest is in observation and theoretical studies of physical and biological factors that are contributing to climate change, in particular global and regional circulation. He is currently working on the WAMSI Node 2 Project, ‘Climate Processes, Predictability and Impacts in a warming Indian Ocean’, which aims to better understand the physical dynamics of the Leeuwin Current, its response to climate change, and the potential impacts on marine ecosystems off the coast of Western Australia. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. Private Bag 5. Floreat, Wembley WA 6913. Australia. Ph: +61 8 9333 6509, 0412 666 450. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Thomas is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research at Edith Cowan University, and an adjunct lecturer at the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses on ecological interactions involving macroalgae on and around subtidal temperate reefs and in estuaries. Thomas is particularly interested in perturbation ecology, and broad-scale comparisons. Increasingly, his research focuses on the nexus between physiology, ecology and biogeography, and the need to understand current and future patterns of global change (climate change, invasive species, eutrophication). Centre for Ecosystem Management, Edith Cowan University. 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup WA 6027, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Neil White has been closely involved in both in situ and remotely sensed (especially satellite altimeter) oceanographic data since he joined the then fledgling CSIRO Division of Oceanography in 1983. He ran the data processing group for the RV Franklin Marine National Facility for 10 years and also acted as a Data Quality Expert for WOCE (the World Ocean Circulation Experiment). He started getting involved with satellite altimeter data with data from the GEOSAT Exact Repeat Mission in the late 1980s and has made significant contributions to data processing techniques and to calibration of the high quality satellites TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1. This work is ongoing and we are now gearing up for the launch of Jason-2 in 2008. He is also involved in research work using various types of sea level data, and has acted as an expert reviewer for the recent (AR4) IPCC report. Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tas 7001.
Dr Jane Williamson completed her BSc at the University of Sydney, then her MSc (Hons) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She was awarded her PhD in Marine Biology in 2001 from the University of New South Wales under the supervision of Prof Peter Steinberg. Dr Williamson is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney. She runs the Marine Ecology Group, an interdisciplinary research group with a focus on (1) effects of climate-induced changes on fertilisation, larval development and recruitment of a wide variety of marine invertebrates, (2) ecology and behaviour of marine invertebrates and vertebrates, and (3) aquaculture of edible sea urchins. Dr Williamson is particularly interested in the effects of ocean acidification, increasing temperature and changes to salinity on early life history stages of marine organisms and the consequences such impacts have to populations and ecosystems. Ultimately, this research will enhance models of the likely effects of climatic changes (through impacts on reproduction) for a range of future CO2 scenarios to help guide policy and management responses. Marine Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. Sydney NSW 2109, Australia. Ph: +61 2 9850 8167. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) www.bio.mq.edu.au/marine_ecology www.sims.org.au
Dr Shaun Wilson received his PhD in Marine Biology from James Cook University (1991). Since then he has developed his primary interest; the impact of habitat loss on coral reef fish communities. In collaboration with colleagues at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Newcastle university, UK, and JCU, we have demonstrated that although initial loss of coral effects a relatively small component of the fish community, the subsequent loss of reef structure and complexity can have severe consequences for the entire fish community. We are currently investigating how the interaction between loss of structural complexity and fishing; another widely recognised anthropogenic form of disturbance on coral reefs. My other major interest is coral reef trophodynamics, in particular the flux of detritus based resources. Biochemical work in this area has demonstrated that detritus is of much higher nutritional value than we previously believed and that many of the fish often classified as herbivores actually feed directly on detritus. The work emphasises the importance of detritivorous fish and detritus in reef food webs, challenging traditional ideas of trophodynamics. Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation. Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre WA 6983, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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