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Sara Hajbane is a physical oceanographer and archaeologist currently undertaking a PhD in environmental engineering at the University of Western Australia, where she has previously completed her Bachelors and Honours degrees. Her current project aims to understand the oceanographic processes that create areas with high plastic concentrations in coastal waters. Her focus for this project … Continued

Netra Sagar joined the Australian Research Council’s Coral Reef Centre of Excellence group at the University of Western Australia as a PhD candidate in 2017. His research aims to reconstruct climate and anthropogenic signals on the Indian Ocean margins using the geochemistry of scleractinian corals and larger foraminifera. His principal supervisors are Professor Malcolm McCulloch, … Continued

Ana Hara is a Technical Officer working in the Crustacea and Worm’s Section at the Western Australian Museum (WAM). Ana completed a Master’s degree at the University of Western Australia in 2008, investigating New Zealand fur seal ecology. Her undergraduate degree in biology was completed in her homeland at the University of São Paulo, in … Continued

Andrew Hosie has held the position of Curator of Crustacea and Worms at the Western Australian Museum (WAM) since 2009. Most of his research has focused on the crustacean diversity of the tropical reefs of Australia’s northwest. Andrew has worked with many facets of crustacean research, such as commercial fisheries, invasive species, and reproductive ecology, … Continued

Carlin Bowyer has held the position of Field Operations Manager for the last 6 years with the University of Western Australia’s Coastal and Ocean Dynamics Group, which is part of UWA’s node of the Australian Research Council’s Coral Reef Centre of Excellence. Carlin has a background in Marine and Environmental science, specializing in spatial information … Continued

Alessandro Remia (‘Dando’) is a Marine Technologist at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR) in Bologna. He graduated at the University of Bologna with a thesis on Cool-Water biogenic factories and his initial research focused upon submerged Pleistocene-age Mediterranean deep-water corals. He has considerable oceanographic experience encompassing logistics, seabed sampling and geophysical data acquisition and … Continued

Claudio obtained his degree in Earth Sciences at the University of Padua in 1987, became lecturer at the same University in 1990 and has been working as an Associate Professor in Petrology and Petrography since December 2002. Currently, he teaches courses in Applied Petrography, Optical Microscopy and Field Geology for Bachelor, and Master degrees in … Continued

Greg Skrzypek holds a PhD from the University of Wroclaw (Poland). He is an expert in stable isotope geochemistry, working as a Senior Lecturer at The University of Western Australia (UWA). Currently, he is serving as the deputy director of the West Australian Biogeochemistry Centre at UWA, a board member of the Archaeology, Geosciences & … Continued

Charitha Pattiaratchi holds Bachelors, Masters, and PhD degrees from the University of Wales, UK. He has been at the University of Western Australia for over 30 years and currently holds the position of professor of coastal oceanography. Chari has supervised over 60 research students and 150 honours students and has published over 446 articles/reports on … Continued