Verena is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Earth and Environment and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Her research focuses on the effects of climate change on coral reefs, in particular the resilience of corals to ocean acidification and warming. She … Continued
Claire completed her BSc in Marine Biology and Coastal Management at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2012 and received a first class honours for her research on high latitude coral calcification rates at Rottnest Island in 2013. Shortly after, Claire worked with her honours supervisors, Winthrop Professor Malcolm McCulloch and Assistant Professor Jim … Continued
Paolo Montagna is a researcher at the Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR-CNR) in Bologna with interests in the geochemistry of biogenic carbonates for palaeoclimate reconstructions and biomineralization studies. He obtained his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Padova (Italy) in collaboration with the Australian National University. He was awarded a three year post-doctoral … Continued
Jim Falter was born in Sleepy Hollow, New York and grew up in the outer suburbs of New York City. He attended college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earning a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a minor in chemistry. After repeatedly crossing the Charles River over several New England winters, he decided … Continued
Dr. Julie Trotter is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia who holds a PhD in geochemistry from the Australian National University, and an MSc in palaeontology from Macquarie University. Her research focuses on the geochemistry of marine carbonate and phosphatic skeletons, which are used as archives of environmental change on both … Continued
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
