Professor Malcolm McCulloch is a geochemistry expert specialising in coral reefs at The University of Western Australia’s Ocean Institute and School of Earth and Environment. His research addresses important contemporary issues such as the impacts of climate change, ocean acidification and direct human activities on coral reefs. He has developed innovative new indicators of how … Continued
Rebecca completed her Masters degree at the National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, U.K. For her research she participated on a six week research cruise to the subtropical Atlantic, collecting data to investigate the complex links between biological productivity and mesoscale processes. Since then she has worked at the Central Caribbean Marine Institute in the … Continued
Dr Richard Brinkman is a physical oceanographer and leads the Shelf Dynamics and Modelling Team within the Sustainable Coastal Ecosystems and Industries in Tropical Australia Research Program at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in Townsville, Australia. Richard has a Bachelor degree in Meteorology/Oceanography from Flinders University (South Australia) and PhD from James Cook … Continued
Matt Rayson, PhD is a postdoctoral scholar in the Bob and Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on using numerical modeling combined with field observations to gain a deeper understanding of physical processes in the coastal ocean. He is currently developing numerical models to study the circulation in the … Continued
Ryan Lowe is a Professor of coastal oceanography at the University of Western Australia and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. He grew up in Laguna Beach, California before pursuing an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California – San Diego, and later a PhD at … Continued
Andrew is a marine biologist whose research on reefs, beginning with a PhD at James Cook University, has taken him to tropical locations worldwide since the 1980s. His current work, within the AIMS Sustainable Use of NW Marine Ecosystems team, is divided between studies of coral reproduction and exploratory surveys to uncover little studied coastal … Continued
Simon Spagnol holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Physics from James Cook University. Simon has over 19 years of experience as an experimental scientist working in the coastal oceanographic field at Australia’s premiere tropical marine research agency. With diverse working responsibilities including experimental data collection design, instrument setup and deployment, hydrodynamic model setup, calibration and analysis, data analysis and … Continued
David Spencer has completed a BMarSc (Hons) at Griffith University on the Gold Coast, Australia. He started pursuing a career in research when he was awarded a summer scholarship to work with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). The project involved identifying and quantifying the role of small-scale mixing processes during summertime upwelling … Continued
In mid 2014, Carlin was appointed a research officer for Professor Ryan Lowe, and Prof Malcolm McCulloch. Carlin provides support for spatial and data based projects, while also leading co-leading field logistics within the research group. Carlin has a strong background in the spatial and field logistics areas as having spent the previous four years … Continued
Samantha is a Ph.D. candidate in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology Department at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the role that hydrodynamics play on the thermal climate surrounding coral reef habitats. On the Timor Sea cruise, Samantha will be collecting data that will allow for better prediction of temperature in the shallow regions … Continued
