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
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
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
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
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
Aleksey Sadekov is a Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Western Australia. He grew up in a small town in Russia and obtained BSc and MSc degrees at the Moscow State University studying palaeontology and stratigraphy. Aleksey obtained his PhD at the Australian … Continued
Marco Taviani is an Associate Senior Researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR) in Bologna with interests in paleoecology, paleobiology, Quaternary geology, carbonate geochemistry and deep-sea ecosystems. Initially trained in Alpine Triassic geology and Quaternary paleoecology, he obtained his PhD in Paleontology from the Ministry of Education (Italy). He has been awarded fellowships to … Continued
Paolo Montagna is a senior researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP-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 … Continued
Malcolm McCulloch is an expert in coral reef geochemistry at The University of Western Australia’s Ocean Graduate School, and a Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. He obtained his PhD from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and has been a leader in the fields of … Continued
