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of the Great Barrier Reef Seabed Biodiversity Project. His
research over 25 years on seabed habitats and biota, including distribution and abundance mapping, effects
of prawn trawling, recovery and dynamics, population
modelling and assessments, provides an objective
foundation to assist management in achieving sustainability of the seabed environment.
B. C. RUSSELL
Barry Russell is Principal Scientist (Marine Biodiversity) with the Northern Territory Department of
Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts. He has
over 30 years research experience on the systematics,
ecology, and behaviour of tropical demersal fishes of
the Indo-West Pacific. His current research interests include the taxonomy and phylogenetics of wrasses
(Labridae), groupers (Serranidae), threadfin breams
(Nemipteridae) and lizardfishes (Synodontidae).
C. SYMS
Craig Syms is a lecturer at the School of Marine and
Tropical Biology at James Cook University. He has published a range of papers on the relationships between
reef fishes and their habitats. His current research examines the role of different spatial and temporal scales
of habitat variability in structuring communities. In addition to research, he has also advised extensively on
marine resource management and evaluation of marine reserves in California. He teaches postgraduate
sampling and experimental design and statistics, and
supervises postgraduate students in a range of different marine projects.
C. C. WALLACE
Carden Wallace is the Principal Scientist of the
Queensland Museum, based at the Museum of Tropical
Queensland in Townsville. She has researched coral
biodiversity and evolution on reefs around the world
and is author of the monograph Staghorn Corals of the
World. Her current research focus is on taxonomy, biogeography, fossil history, evolution and post-bleaching
recruitment of family Acroporidae. She is also reviewing the sea anemone fauna of Australia, with Dr Daphne
Fautin and others.
R. C. WILLAN
Richard Willan is a molluscan taxonomist, presently
Senior Curator of Molluscs at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin.
Formerly he was on the staff of the Zoology Department at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, from
where he studied the molluscs of the Great Barrier Reef.
During that time he visited research stations on the
reef, studying opisthobranchs and bivalves. He is an
authority on invasive marine molluscs in Australia. As
the result of many visits to the Heron Island Research
Station, he collaborated with Julie Marshall to write
‘Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef’.
E. WOLANSKI
Eric Wolanski is a coastal oceanographer and holds
positions at James Cook University (JCU) and the
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). He has
more than 300 publications. He is a fellow of the
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and
Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia,
and l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer. He
was awarded an Australian Centenary medal, a
Doctorate Honoris Causa, and a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunication award for
excellence. He is the chief editor of Estuarine, Coastal
and Shelf Science and Wetlands Ecology and Management. He is an Erasmus Mundus scholar and is listed
in Australia’s Who’s Who.
Author Biographies
of the Great Barrier Reef Seabed Biodiversity Project. His
research over 25 years on seabed habitats and biota, including distribution and abundance mapping, effects
of prawn trawling, recovery and dynamics, population
modelling and assessments, provides an objective
foundation to assist management in achieving sustainability of the seabed environment.
B. C. RUSSELL
Barry Russell is Principal Scientist (Marine Biodiversity) with the Northern Territory Department of
Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts. He has
over 30 years research experience on the systematics,
ecology, and behaviour of tropical demersal fishes of
the Indo-West Pacific. His current research interests include the taxonomy and phylogenetics of wrasses
(Labridae), groupers (Serranidae), threadfin breams
(Nemipteridae) and lizardfishes (Synodontidae).
C. SYMS
Craig Syms is a lecturer at the School of Marine and
Tropical Biology at James Cook University. He has published a range of papers on the relationships between
reef fishes and their habitats. His current research examines the role of different spatial and temporal scales
of habitat variability in structuring communities. In addition to research, he has also advised extensively on
marine resource management and evaluation of marine reserves in California. He teaches postgraduate
sampling and experimental design and statistics, and
supervises postgraduate students in a range of different marine projects.
C. C. WALLACE
Carden Wallace is the Principal Scientist of the
Queensland Museum, based at the Museum of Tropical
Queensland in Townsville. She has researched coral
biodiversity and evolution on reefs around the world
and is author of the monograph Staghorn Corals of the
World. Her current research focus is on taxonomy, biogeography, fossil history, evolution and post-bleaching
recruitment of family Acroporidae. She is also reviewing the sea anemone fauna of Australia, with Dr Daphne
Fautin and others.
R. C. WILLAN
Richard Willan is a molluscan taxonomist, presently
Senior Curator of Molluscs at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin.
Formerly he was on the staff of the Zoology Department at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, from
where he studied the molluscs of the Great Barrier Reef.
During that time he visited research stations on the
reef, studying opisthobranchs and bivalves. He is an
authority on invasive marine molluscs in Australia. As
the result of many visits to the Heron Island Research
Station, he collaborated with Julie Marshall to write
‘Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef’.
E. WOLANSKI
Eric Wolanski is a coastal oceanographer and holds
positions at James Cook University (JCU) and the
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). He has
more than 300 publications. He is a fellow of the
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and
Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia,
and l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer. He
was awarded an Australian Centenary medal, a
Doctorate Honoris Causa, and a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunication award for
excellence. He is the chief editor of Estuarine, Coastal
and Shelf Science and Wetlands Ecology and Management. He is an Erasmus Mundus scholar and is listed
in Australia’s Who’s Who.
Author Biographies