Dr Jacquomo Monk is a quantitative marine spatial ecologist with joint appointments with Austral Research and Consulting and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. For over a decade Jac has worked in the private and university sectors applying his advanced skills in spatial and quantitative statistics to a range … Continued
Scott is Director of Marine and Antarctic Geoscience at Geoscience Australia. He is a marine geoscientist with over 25 years post-PhD experience working on coastal and marine environments, with a focus on seabed geomorphology, sediment dynamics and geology. He has led numerous marine surveys, including within the Marine Biodiversity Hub under the CERF, NERP and … Continued
Dr. Dean Miller is a scientist, multi-media professional, BBC television presenter and an Australian Geographic sponsored explorer. With a Ph.D. in coral reef management, tourism and resource allocation and a wealth of scientific experience in the field from Antarctica to the Arctic and everywhere in between, Dean’s scientific research career has been rich and diverse. … Continued
Dr. Daniela Ceccarelli is an independent marine ecology consultant with a PhD in coral reef ecology from James Cook University. Her coral reef survey fieldwork spans the Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, Tonga and the Marshall Islands, and remote reefs of northwest WA and the Coral Sea. For the last decade she has … Continued
Dr. Dhugal Lindsay is an Australian working in Japan at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and several universities. His research focuses on mid-water ecology, particularly concentrating on gelatinous organisms that are too fragile to be sampled by conventional methods. He is also heavily involved in developing the technologies to study these organisms in situ. Dr. Lindsay has taken … Continued
Richard Fitzpatrick is an Emmy awarded cinematographer specialising in 8K and 3D IMAX video systems as well as being a qualified marine biologist specialising in sharks. He has shot more than 50 films for clients such as the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel and is renowned for filming complex behavioural sequences – (including 3D, … Continued
Kai is a systematic ichthyology PhD candidate at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute. His research revolves largely around coral reef fishes, particularly in the taxonomy and systematics of labrid fishes. He has described and named over a dozen new species of reef fishes, many of them occurring in deep mesophotic … Continued
Dr Merrick Ekins is the Collection Manager of Sessile Marine Invertebrates at the Queensland Museum. Merrick is in charge of the Queensland Museums’ Sessile Marine Invertebrate Collection, with one of the largest Indo-Pacific collection of Sponges, Ascidians and Octocorals. He has 17 years of experience in the collection, identification, preservation and descriptions of these groups, … Continued
Tom Bridge is a Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University and the Senior Curator of Corals at the Queensland Museum Network, based at the Museum of Tropical Queensland campus in Townsville. His research is broadly focussed on the taxonomy, systematics, ecology, biogeography and evolution … Continued
Dr. Webster is part of the Geocoastal Research Group in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. Jody is an expert in carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy and interpretation of marine geology and geophysical data. Jody graduated from the University of Sydney in 2000 and spent several years in the US carrying out his … Continued
