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P. KOTT
Patricia Mather (née Kott) AO, FMLS was, before retirement, a senior curator in the Queensland Museum.
She has published on the history and roles of museums, taxonomy, conservation, and the Great Barrier
Reef and is an internationally recognised authority on
the taxonomy of the Ascidiacea. Her appointments include: membership of the MST Grants Committee,
ABRS (Australian Biological Resources Study) Consultative Committee, Australian Research Council
(ARC) Biological Panel, and a nine-year term on the
Consultative Committee of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority that she had helped to establish.
She is a past president of the Great Barrier Reef Committee and senior editor of the ‘Coral Reef Handbook’.
A. W. D. LARKUM
Anthony Larkum has worked in many fields—from
molecules to ecosystems. His early interests were in the
way plants absorb nutrients. However, an interest in
SCUBA diving stimulated an interest in algae and in
how algae are adapted to light fields underwater. This
led to a lifelong interest in the physiology and ecology
of algae and seagrasses. He has edited two books on
the biology of seagrasses. He was instrumental in setting up the University of Sydney’s One Tree Island Research Station and has been fascinated with the various
roles of algae in the coral reef ecosystem. He initiated
the ENCORE (Enrichment of Nutrients on Coral Reefs)
Project at One Tree Island that looked at the effect of
raising the local levels of nitrogen and phosphorus on
coral reef organisms. He is also currently working on
the potential effects of global climate change.
V. LUKOSCHEK
Vimoksalehi Lukoschek completed her Ph.D. in 2007 at
James Cook University where she studied the evolutionary and conservation genetics of hydrophiine sea
snakes, with a focus on species occurring in Australian
waters. She obtained her B.Sc. in marine and terrestrial
biology with an emphasis on marine conservation, and
a First Class Honours investigating the foraging ecology of benthic, carnivorous coral reef fishes. She has
also worked on a variety of projects in molecular biology and marine mammal ecology.
H. MARSH
Helene Marsh is Professor of Environmental Science
and Dean of Graduate Research Studies at James Cook
University, Townsville. Her research interests include
marine mammalian population ecology with an emphasis on life history, reproductive ecology, population
dynamics, diet, distribution, abundance and movements of dugongs. She has also supervised several PhD
students working on coastal cetaceans. Helene has produced some 200 scientific publications including one
book, about 100 articles in refereed journals, chapters
in books and encyclopaedia, conference proceedings
and technical reports. She was awarded a Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship in Marine Conservation, the most
prestigious international scientific award in marine
conservation in 1998 and a Distinguished Service
Award by the Society of Conservation Biology in 2007.
D. MCKINNON
David McKinnon has over 25 years experience as a biological oceanographer, and has published extensively
on copepod dynamics and systematics. David completed his undergraduate education at the University
of Otago, New Zealand before moving to Melbourne,
where he completed an M.Sc. His Ph.D., on environmental regulation of copepod production, was completed at the University of Queensland. As part of the
Australian Institute of Marine Science Water Quality
and Ecosystem Health team he leads research into the
environmental impacts of tropical aquaculture, and on
the biological oceanography of Australia’s tropical seas.
J. M. PANDOLFI
John Pandolfi is Professor in the Centre for Marine
Studies and the Department of Earth Sciences at the
University of Queensland. His research integrates palaeoecological, ecological, historical, and climate data to
provide critical insights into how marine communities
are assembled and structured in the face of environmental variability and human impacts over extended
periods of time.
C. R. PITCHER
Roland Pitcher, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, and Principal Investigator
Author Biographies
P. KOTT
Patricia Mather (née Kott) AO, FMLS was, before retirement, a senior curator in the Queensland Museum.
She has published on the history and roles of museums, taxonomy, conservation, and the Great Barrier
Reef and is an internationally recognised authority on
the taxonomy of the Ascidiacea. Her appointments include: membership of the MST Grants Committee,
ABRS (Australian Biological Resources Study) Consultative Committee, Australian Research Council
(ARC) Biological Panel, and a nine-year term on the
Consultative Committee of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority that she had helped to establish.
She is a past president of the Great Barrier Reef Committee and senior editor of the ‘Coral Reef Handbook’.
A. W. D. LARKUM
Anthony Larkum has worked in many fields—from
molecules to ecosystems. His early interests were in the
way plants absorb nutrients. However, an interest in
SCUBA diving stimulated an interest in algae and in
how algae are adapted to light fields underwater. This
led to a lifelong interest in the physiology and ecology
of algae and seagrasses. He has edited two books on
the biology of seagrasses. He was instrumental in setting up the University of Sydney’s One Tree Island Research Station and has been fascinated with the various
roles of algae in the coral reef ecosystem. He initiated
the ENCORE (Enrichment of Nutrients on Coral Reefs)
Project at One Tree Island that looked at the effect of
raising the local levels of nitrogen and phosphorus on
coral reef organisms. He is also currently working on
the potential effects of global climate change.
V. LUKOSCHEK
Vimoksalehi Lukoschek completed her Ph.D. in 2007 at
James Cook University where she studied the evolutionary and conservation genetics of hydrophiine sea
snakes, with a focus on species occurring in Australian
waters. She obtained her B.Sc. in marine and terrestrial
biology with an emphasis on marine conservation, and
a First Class Honours investigating the foraging ecology of benthic, carnivorous coral reef fishes. She has
also worked on a variety of projects in molecular biology and marine mammal ecology.
H. MARSH
Helene Marsh is Professor of Environmental Science
and Dean of Graduate Research Studies at James Cook
University, Townsville. Her research interests include
marine mammalian population ecology with an emphasis on life history, reproductive ecology, population
dynamics, diet, distribution, abundance and movements of dugongs. She has also supervised several PhD
students working on coastal cetaceans. Helene has produced some 200 scientific publications including one
book, about 100 articles in refereed journals, chapters
in books and encyclopaedia, conference proceedings
and technical reports. She was awarded a Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship in Marine Conservation, the most
prestigious international scientific award in marine
conservation in 1998 and a Distinguished Service
Award by the Society of Conservation Biology in 2007.
D. MCKINNON
David McKinnon has over 25 years experience as a biological oceanographer, and has published extensively
on copepod dynamics and systematics. David completed his undergraduate education at the University
of Otago, New Zealand before moving to Melbourne,
where he completed an M.Sc. His Ph.D., on environmental regulation of copepod production, was completed at the University of Queensland. As part of the
Australian Institute of Marine Science Water Quality
and Ecosystem Health team he leads research into the
environmental impacts of tropical aquaculture, and on
the biological oceanography of Australia’s tropical seas.
J. M. PANDOLFI
John Pandolfi is Professor in the Centre for Marine
Studies and the Department of Earth Sciences at the
University of Queensland. His research integrates palaeoecological, ecological, historical, and climate data to
provide critical insights into how marine communities
are assembled and structured in the face of environmental variability and human impacts over extended
periods of time.
C. R. PITCHER
Roland Pitcher, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, and Principal Investigator
Author Biographies