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Jon Havenhand
Ocean Acidification |
Jon has a PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and had post-doctoral positions at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the University of Washington, USA, before taking an appointment at Flinders University, Adelaide, where he helped to establish the Marine Biology and Aquaculture programs. For the last 8 years Jon has been Professor of Marine Ecology at the Tjärnö Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden where he is also a core member of the Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology. His research on reproductive ecology of marine invertebrates focuses on parental and early life-history traits that can influence adaptation and evolution. For the last few years he’s been investigating the effects of ocean acidification, temperature, and salinity on fertilization success and larval development. Jon still works regularly in Australia and has active collaborations with researchers at Macquarie University and the University of Queensland. University of Gothenburg, Sweden. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Dr. Will Howard is a research scientist at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, Tasmania. Dr. Howard has a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, was a U.S. Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, from 1992-93, and was a lecturer in oceanography at the Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Massachusetts from 1994-1995, before joining the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart in 1996. He works on marine climate change, with particular emphasis on ocean acidification and its impacts on the past, current, and future ocean. He is particularly interested in the ocean carbon cycle and the responses of marine ecosystems to climate change. His work focuses on the insights into climate change that can be inferred from ocean sediment records as a baseline for pre-industrial conditions and as a tool for understanding the impacts of large-magnitude climate changes of the scale anticipated in the coming centuries. His expertise is in palaeoecology and low-temperature isotopic geochemistry. Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. Private Bag 80, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Richard Matear is a biogeochemical modeller with CMAR’s Climate Adaptation Flagship, with a special interest in understanding the role that the marine carbon cycle plays in controlling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, particularly in the Southern Ocean. Present estimates indicate the oceans are removing about 30 per cent of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions, approximately 40% of which occurs in the Southern Ocean. The oceans are expected to continue to absorb large quantities of anthropogenic carbon dioxide, but the extent to which the ocean uptake will be effected by climate change are uncertain. Current research involves the development and implementation of a hierarchy of ocean biogeochemical (BGC) models to model carbon cycling in the ocean, predict oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 and the air-sea exchanges of 12CO2, 13CO2 and O2 into atmospheric transport models. Work by a joint observational and modeling team is aimed at critically comparing the models with observations to assess the BGC model performance. The development and application of BGC models is occurring on the one-dimensional, regional and global scales. Climate Adaptation Flagship, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research. Hobart TAS 7001, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Laura Parker is a PhD candidate working on the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on marine organisms, specifically measuring the impacts on the early life history stages of the Sydney Rock and Pacific Oysters. Her research is internationally awarded including best oral presentation at “The Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans” International Symposium in Gijon, Spain (2008) and best student oral presentation at the “Oceans in a High CO2 World II” International Symposium in Monaco (2008). Her work forms part of the signatory in the Monaco Declaration (released 30th January 2009) and has stimulated interest from the NBC, BBC and Australian media.
David Raftos is an Associate Professor of Marine Science at Macquarie University. He has over 25 years experience in marine biology, focusing on the cell and molecular biology of marine invertebrates. After completing his PhD, Associate Professor Raftos worked as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California Los Angeles, and as an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. He has since held faculty positions at the University of Technology Sydney and Macquarie University, and has also been a Visiting Professor at Cornell University in New York and the George Washington University in Washington DC. Associate Professor Raftos is currently acting as Deputy Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University and is Co-Director of the University’s Marine Science Program. He is also a senior member of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Zoology and Developmental and Comparative Immunology. His current research focuses on the effects of environmental stress on marine invertebrates at the cellular, protein and genetic levels, with particular emphasis on infectious disease, environmental contamination and climate change. His research projects, funded by the Australian Research Council and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, include the use of proteomics and transcriptomics to investigate the biological effects of environmental stress and climate change on marine invertebrates, and molecular studies of disease resistance and susceptibility in oysters. Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. North Ryde NSW 2109, Australia. Ph:+61 2 9850 8402. draftos@rna bio.mq.edu.au
Associate Professor Pauline Ross of the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests are in the field of experimental estuarine ecology where she has worked on the influence of larval supply and plant/animal interactions in threatened mangrove, seagrass and saltmarsh habitats. Her current internationally awarded research with Laura Parker and Wayne O’Connor (Port Stephens Fisheries Centre) is on the impact of elevated CO2 and other multiple stressors (temperature and salinity) on oysters and other estuarine molluscs and the impact of climate change on estuarine habitats. Most recently she completed a review of estuarine molluscs of south-eastern Australia and the impact of anthropogenic factors including climate change on saltmarshes with Todd Minchinton and Winston Ponder (C.S.I.R.O publisher). University of Western Sydney, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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
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