Education
1970 PhD University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (Thesis title: The ecology of the New Zealand Haliotis species (Mollusca))
1966 BSc(Hons) First Class, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Employment history
1969–1979 Senior research officer, Marine Studies Group, Ministry for Conservation, Melbourne, Australia
1979– Curator, Department of Crustacea, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia [from 1992 Senior Curator, from 2006 Principal Curator (Marine Biology)]
1997– Senior Research Associate, Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia (honorary appointment)
Professional distinctions
2003 Whitley Book Award, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Certificate of Commendation for Best Catalogue Series in 2002 for “Zoological Catalogue of Australia – Crustacea Malacostraca”
2005 Whitley Book Award, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Certificate of Commendation for Best Book in Systematic Zoology in 2004 for “Marine decapod crustaceans of southern Australia”
2006 Lifetime Achievement Award. Museum Industry Recognition Awards (MIRA), presented by Museums Australia (Victorian Branch).
Research interests
Taxonomy of marine Crustacea including descriptions of new taxa, phylogenetic revisions, evolutionary history and guides to identification
Ecology and biogeography of communities of marine soft-bottom macrobenthos including publications on biodiversity, community structure and community-environment interaction of estuarine, shallow water and deep-sea benthos
Key publications
Selected from 130 papers, chapters and books:
Poore, G.C.B., and O’Hara, T.D. 2007. Marine biogeography and biodiversity of Australia. in: Connell, S.D., and Gillanders, B.M. (eds), Marine Ecology. Oxford University Press
Poore, G.C.B. 2005. Peracarida: monophyly, relationships and evolutionary success. Nauplius 13: 1-27.
Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Marine decapod Crustacea of southern Australia. A guide to identification (with chapter on Stomatopoda by Shane Ahyong). CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. 574 pp.
Poore, G.C.B. (ed). 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea.. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 39.2A.
CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. 429 pp.
Poore, G.C.B. 2001. Families and genera of Isopoda Anthuridea. Crustacean Issues 13: 63–173.
Richer de Forges, B., Koslow, J.A., and Poore, G.C.B. 2000. Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount megafauna in the southwest Pacific. Nature 405: 944–947.
O’Hara, T.D., and Poore, G.C.B. 2000. Patterns of distribution for southern Australian marine echinoderms and decapods. Journal of Biogeography 27: 1321–1335.
Poore, G.C.B., and Wilson, G.D.F. 1993. Marine species richness (with reply by R.M. May). Nature 361: 597–598.
Poore, G.C.B., Just, J., and Cohen, B.F. 1994. Composition and diversity of Crustacea Isopoda of the southeastern Australian continental slope. Deep-Sea Research 41: 677–693.
