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University of Tasmania and
CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship
Principal Investigator
Education
1983 PhD (Fisheries), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1979 MA (Natural Sciences), Cambridge University,
1976 BA (Natural Sciences), Cambridge University,
Employment history
2005-present
Leader, Biodiversity and Conservation, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
• Determining the processes that maintain marine biodiversity and the conservation of marine biodiversity following anthropogenic change
• Development of genetic approaches for explaining observed patterns in marine biodiversity
• Development of techniques and management strategies for the integrated pest management of invasive marine species.
2001-2005.
Leader, Invasive Species Research, CSIRO Marine Research
• Application of management strategy evaluation to invasive species
• Development of genetic methods for the control of invasive species
• Risk assessment and rapid response to marine pest invasions.
1993–2001
Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Marine Research
• Design, coordination and leadership of a multidisciplinary study of the role of habitat in the Southeast Australian marine ecosystem.
• Stock assessment and risk analysis of commercial fish species.
• Development of system level models and indicators to provide management criteria for sustainable development of marine fisheries.
• Development of ecomorphological criteria of ecosystem function as a rapid assessment technique for biodiversity evaluation in marine ecosystems.
Research interests
• Project Design and Leadership
• Marine Ecosystem Analysis
• Integrated Management of Invasive Marine Species
• Statistical and Numerical Modelling
Key publications
Williams, A. and Bax, N. (2003). Integrating fishers’ knowledge with survey data to understand the structure, ecology and use of a seascape off southeastern Australia, pp. 238-245, in, Haggen, N., Brignall, C. and Wood, L. (eds), ‘Putting fishers’ knowledge to work’, Conference Proceedings, UBC Fisheries Centre Research Reports
Bax, N. and Williams, A (2003). Designing representative and adequate MPAs In a structured environment. Pages 203-211 In and J.P. Beumer, A. Grant, D.C. Smith [Eds.] “Aquatic Protected Areas - What works best and how do we know?” Proceedings of the World Congress on Aquatic Protected Areas - Cairns, Australia; August, 2002.” University of Queensland Printery, Australia.
Williams, A and Bax, N. (2003) Involving fishers’ data In Identifying, selecting and designing MPAs. Pages 212-219 In and J.P. Beumer, A. Grant, D.C. Smith [Eds.] “Aquatic Protected Areas - What works best and how do we know?” Proceedings of the World Congress on Aquatic Protected Areas - Cairns, Australia; August, 2002.” University of Queensland Printery, Australia.
Bax, N., Williamson, A., Aguero, M., Gonzalez, E., and Geeves, W. (2003). Marine invasive alien species: a threat to global biodiversity. Marine Policy 27: 313-323.
Davenport, S, and Bax, N (2002). A trophic study of a marine ecosystem off south eastern Australia using stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 51: 514-530.
Bax, N.J., Burford, M., Clementson, L., and L., Davenport, S. (2001). Phytoplankton blooms and productivity on the south east Australian continental shelf. Marine and Freshwater Research, 52: 451-62.
Bax, N., Carlton, J., Mathews-Amos, A., Haedrich, R., Howarth, F.G., Purcell, J, Reiser, A. and Gray, A. (2001). Conserving marine biodiversity through the control of biological invasions. Conservation Biology 451: 145-176.
Bax, N.J. and Williams, A. (2001). Seabed habitat on the southeast Australian continental shelf – context vulnerability and monitoring. Marine and Freshwater Research, 52: 491-512.
Bulman, C., Althaus, F., He, X., Bax, N.J. and Williams, A. (2001). Diets and trophic guilds of demersal fishes of the south-eastern Australian shelf. Marine and Freshwater Research, 52: 537-548.
Kloser, R.J., Bax, N.J. Ryan, T., Williams, A., and Barker B.A. (2001). Remote sensing of seabed types in the Australian South East Fishery – development and application of normal incident acoustic techniques and associated “ground truthing”. Marine and Freshwater Research, 52: 473-489.
Williams, A. and Bax, N. (2001). Delineating fish-habitat associations for spatially-based management: an example from the south-eastern Australian continental shelf. Marine and Freshwater Research, 52: 513-536.
Hollowed, A.B., Bax, N., Beamish, R., Collie, J., Fogarty, M., Livingston, P., Pope, J. and Rice,J. (2000) Are multispecies models an improvement on single species models for predicting fishing impacts on marine ecosystems? ICES J. Mar. Sci., 57: 707-719.
Bax, N.J., Kloser, R., Williams, R., Gowlett-Holmes, K. and Ryan, T. (1999). Seafloor habitat definition for spatial management in fisheries: a case study on the continental shelf of southeast Australia using acoustics and biotic assemblages. Oceanologica Acta, 22: 707-719.
Bax, N., Williams, A., Davenport, S. and Bulman, C. (1999). Managing the Ecosystem by Leverage Points: a Model for a Multispecies Fishery. Ecosystem Approaches for Fisheries Management, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, AK-SG-99-01: 283-303.
Bax, N. J. (1998). The significance and prediction of predation in marine fishery ecosystems. ICES Journal of marine Science, 55: 997-1030.
Griffin, D.A., Thompson , P.A., Bax, N.J., Bradford, R.W., and Hallegraeff, G.M. (1997). The 1995 Pilchard mass mortality: no role found for physical nor biological oceanographic factors in Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 48: 27-42.
Bax, N. J. 1991. A comparison of the fish biomass flow to fish, fisheries, and mammals in six marine ecosys¬tems. ICES Mar. Sci. Symp., 193: 217–227.
Bax, N. J. and J.-E. Eliassen. 1990. Multispecies analysis of a north Norwegian fjord. 1) Solution and sensitivity analysis of a simple ecosystem model. J. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer. 47: 175–204.
Museum Victoria
Management Team
Dr Tim D O’Hara
Museum Victoria
Education
Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts (combined) - University of Melbourne (1979-1984).
Post Graduate Diploma of Computer Science - La Trobe University, Melbourne (1985).
Master of Information Technology - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (1992-1994).
Doctor of Philosophy - University of Melbourne, Zoology Department (1996-2001).
Employment history
Programmer, software engineer, systems analyst (1986-1995)
PhD student (1996-1999)
Research Scientist, Museum Victoria (1999-2001)
Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museum Victoria (2001-2009).
Deputy Head of Science (Marine), Museum Victoria (2009-present).
Research Interests
Marine biogeography and macro-ecology; marine conservation biology; and taxonomy and evolution of echinoderms (sea stars, brittle stars, feather stars, sea cucumbers, sea urchins).
Overall, the research is focused on using the vast amounts of data and tissues stored in museum collections to address issues of biodiversity management.
Key government committees
Australian Ballast Water Management Advisory Council (ABWMAC), Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (1996-2000)
Victorian Fisheries Co-management Council, Department of Natural Resources and Environment (1997-1999)
National Introduced Marine Pest Coordination Group (NIMPCG), Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia (2001-2008)
South East Australian Regional Marine Plan, Stakeholder Reference Group, National Oceans Office (2002-2003)
Key publications
O’Hara, T.D. (1998). Origin of Macquarie Island echinoderms. Polar Biology 20: 143-151.
O’Hara, T.D. (2002). Endemism, rarity and vulnerability of marine species along a temperate coastline. Invertebrate Systematics 16: 671-684.
O’Hara, T.D. (2007). Seamounts: Centres of endemism or species-richness for ophiuroids? Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 720-732.
O’Hara, T.D., Addison, P.F.E., Gazzard, R., Costa, T.L. & Pocklington, J.B. (accepted, in press). A rapid biodiversity assessment methodology tested on intertidal rocky shores. Aquatic Conservation.
O’Hara, T.D. & Poore, G.C.B. (2000). Distribution and origin of Southern Australian echinoderms and decapods. Journal of Biogeography 27: 1321-1335.
O’Hara, T.D., Rowden, A.A. & Williams, A. (2008). Cold-water coral habitats on seamounts: do they have a specialist fauna? Diversity and Distributions 14: 925-934.
O’Hara, T.D. & Stöhr, S. (2006). Deep water Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata) of New Caledonia: Ophiacanthidae and Hemieuryalidae. Tropical Deep Sea Benthos 24: 33-141
O’Hara, T.D. & Tittensor, D.P. (accepted, in press). Which environmental factors drive variation in species richness on seamounts? Marine Ecology.
Poore, G.C.B & O’Hara, T.D. (2007). Marine biogeography and biodiversity of Australia. Pp 177-198 in Connell, S.D. & Gillanders, B.M. (eds) Marine Ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Uthicke, S., O’Hara, T.D., Byrne, M. (2004). Species composition and molecular phylogeny of the Indo-Pacific teatfish (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) bêche-de-mer fishery. Marine and Freshwater Research 55: 837-848.
CSIRO Wealth from
Oceans Flagship
Project Leader
Education
2002 PhD University of California, Santa Cruz
1996 MSc University of California, Davis
1990 BS. (Honours), University of Kansas
Employment history
2005 – Senior Research Scientist CSIRO Marine Research, Australia
2002 – 2005 ARC Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia
2000 – 2002 Ecological Modeller, US Fish and Wildlife Service
1996 – 2002 Wildlife Biologist ,KEA Environmental, San Diego, CA
1997 – 2002 Ecological Modeller/Wildlife Biologist contracted to The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, CA
1994-1995 Postgraduate Researcher, California State Parks, Merced Co., CA
1992-1994 Postgraduate Researcher, Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, CA
1991-1992 Wildlife Biologist, Western Ecological Services, Novato, CA
1990 Wildlife Biology Technician, Wildlife International, Moses Lake, WA
1988-1989 Research Assistant, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Research interests
I use a combination of modelling and empirical data collection to investigate population and community dynamics in space and time, with a particular focus on human impacted systems. My current work targets two areas: 1) connectivity, migration and metapopulation dynamics, particularly in marine systems; and 2) direct and indirect mitigation of human impacts on marine systems.
Professional distinctions
1986 Kansas Regents Fellowship
1993 Switzer Foundation Environmental Fellowship
1996 University of California Regents Fellowship
1999 University of California Regents Fellowship
2000 University of California Regents Fellowship
2002 ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004 ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Invited participant in 6 international and 2 national working groups since 2004
8 Invited seminars since 2000
Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology (impact factor 4.6)
Referee for Science, Ecology Letters, Ecological Applications, Journal of Ecology, Behavioural Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Theoretical Population Biology, Marine Ecology Progress Series, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Applications, Conservation Biology, American Midland Naturalist, and Israeli Journal of Ecology
Key publications
Refereed Journal Publications
Worthington Wilmer, J. and C. Wilcox. provisionally accepted. Fine scale patterns of migration and gene flow in the endangered mound spring snail, Fonscochlea accepta (Mollusca:Hydrobiidae) in arid Australia. Conservation Genetics
Joseph, L.N., S.A. Field, C.V. Wilcox, and H.P. Possingham. in press. Presence-absence versus abundance data for monitoring threatened species. Conservation Biology.
Wilcox, C., B. Cairns, and H.P. Possingham. in press The Role of Habitat Disturbance and Recovery in Metapopulation Persistence. Ecology.
Jonzen, N., C. Wilcox, and H.P. Possingham 2004. Habitat selection and population regulation in temporally fluctuating environments. American Naturalist 164:103-114.
Wilcox, C. and B. Elderd. 2003a. The endangered species act: conservation of species or natural systems? An analysis of endangered species listing proposals from California, Oregon, and Washington. Society and Natural Resources 6:551-559.
Wilcox, C. and B. Elderd. 2003b. The effect of density dependent catastrophes on population persistence time. Journal of Applied Ecology 40:859-871.
Wilcox, C. and C. Pomeroy. 2003. Do commercial fishermen aggregate around marine reserves? Evidence from Big Creek Reserve, Central California. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:241-250.
Giske, J., M. Mangel, P. Jokobsen, G. Huse, and C. Wilcox. 2003. An individual-based model of genetic adaptation in a density-dependent environment. Evolutionary Ecology Research.
Wilcox, C. 2002. Habitat size and isolation affect colonization of season wetlands by aquatic insects. Israel Journal of Ecology, special feature on seasonal wetland ecology 47:459-476.
Wilcox, C. and H. Possingham. 2002. Do life history traits affect the accuracy of diffusion approximations for mean time to extinction? Ecological Applications 12:1163-1179
Ellner, S.P., J. Fieberg, D. Ludwig, and C. Wilcox. 2002. Precision in population viability analysis. Conservation Biology 16:258-261.
Keitt, B.S. C. Wilcox, B.R. Tershy, D. Croll, C.J. Donlan. 2002. The effect of feral cats on the population viability of black-vented shearwaters (puffinus opisthomelas) on Natividad Island, Mexico. Animal Conservation 5:217-223.
Harding, E.K., E.E. Crone, B.D. Elderd, J.M. Hoekstra,, A.J. McKerrow, J.D. Perrine, J. Regetz,, L.J. Rissler, A.G. Stanley, E. L. Walters, and the NCEAS Habitat Conservation Plan Working Group. 2001. The Scientific Foundations of Habitat Conservation Plans: a Quantitative Assessment. Conservation Biology 15:488-500.
Milner-Gulland, E.J., K. Shea, H. Possingham, T. Coulson, C. Wilcox. 2001. Competing harvesting strategies in a simulated population under uncertainty. Animal Conservation 4:157-167.
Parma, A.M., P. Amarasekare, M. Mangel, J. Moore, W.W. Murdoch, E. Noonburg, M.A. Pascual, H.P. Possingham, K. Shea, C. Wilcox, and D. Yu. 1998. What can adaptive management do for our fish, forests, food, and biodiversity? Integrative Biology 1:16-26
Shea, K., P. Amarasekare, M.S. Mangel, J. Moore, W.W. Murdoch, E. Noonburg, A. Parma, M.A. Pascual, H.P. Possingham, C. Wilcox, D. Yu. 1998. Management of populations in conservation, harvesting, and control. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 13:371-375.
Manuscripts in Review
Wilcox, C., S.A. Field, L.N. Joseph, A.J. Tyre, H.P. Possingham. in review. Implications of the abundance-occupancy relationship for population monitoring. Conservation Biology.
Kodric-Brown, A., C. Wilcox, J.G. Bragg, and J.H. Brown. in review Dynamics of fish in Australian desert springs: role of large-mammal disturbance. Ecology.
Wilcox, C. and C.J. Donlan. in review. Resolving economic inefficiencies: compensatory mitigation as a solution to fisheries bycatch-biodiversity conservation conflict. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B.
Baxter, P.W.J., J.L. Sabo, C. Wilcox, M.A. McCarthy, and H.P. Possingham. in review. How can we efficiently manage invasive predators? Journal of Applied Ecology.
Vuilleumier, S., C. Wilcox, B.J. Cairns, H.P. Possingham. in review. The effect of spatially and temporally aggregated habitat disturbance on metapopulations under different spatial configurations and connectivity. Theoretical Population Biology
Book Chapters, Reports and Other Publications
Wilcox, C. M. Bravington, and D. Peel. 2006. Application of Continuous Time Markov Chains to Modeling Animal Movement: Estimation of Movement Rates and Retention Times for Patagonian Toothfish. Paper submitted to the Fisheries Working Group, CCAMLR Annual Meeting.
Wilcox, C. 2006 Review of Trend Monitoring Methods as applied to Seabird Populations. Paper submitted to the Working Group on Status and Trends, Agreement on the Conservation of Albatross and Petrels Annual Meeting.
Wilcox, C. 2005. A Method for Inferring Movement Rates of Fish from Mark-Recapture Data. Paper submitted to the Fisheries Working Group, CCAMLR Annual Meeting.
Wilcox, C. and J. Hartog. 2005. A Preliminary Analysis of Effort Allocation Under Spatial Management in the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery. Report to Australian Fisheries Management Agency.ise swordfish CPUE on the Mooloolaba Grounds. Report to Australian Fisheries Management Agency.
Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, University of Tasmania
Management Team
Education
1987 PhD (Rhodes University)
1981 MSc cum laude (University of Cape Town)
1977 BSc (Hons) (University of Cape Town)
Employment history
1980 1983: Contract Research Scientist – Port Elizabeth Museum
1983 1987: Museum Natural Scientist – Port Elizabeth Museum
1987 1989: Lecturer, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science (DIFS), Rhodes University.
1990 1993: Senior Lecturer, DIFS (1993 acting Head of Department).
1994-1995: Associate Professor, DIFS.
1996: Senior Lecturer and Post Graduate Course Co-ordinator, Faculty of Fisheries & Environment at the Australian Maritime College (FM&E - AMC)
1996-1998: Director, (FM&E - AMC).
1998-present: Director and Professor, Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (TAFI), University of Tasmania.
Research interests
Marine fisheries, including the ecology and biology of reef associated fishes.
Marine Protected Areas, especially the evaluation of MPAs as a fisheries management tool and the impact of MPAs on fisheries.
I have supervised several research higher degree and honours students in these areas.
Professional distinctions
• Helpmekaar scholarship, Fisheries Development Corporation (FDC), South Africa.
• Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa, post graduate scholarship.
• FDC Post graduate Scholarship.
• Foundation for Research & Development (FRD) Stipendium to outstanding young scientists (Category Y).
• 1994 JLB Smith Memorial Lecture entitled “Marine Reserves - Can they enhance our inshore fisheries?”
• Marine Science Society of Southern Africa (Executive committee member and chairman of the East Cape branch 1993-95)
• Cape Coastwatch Programme (Expert panel member 1990-96)
• South African Marine Linefish Management Association (Scientific advisor to South African and Ciskeian delegations 1990-96)
• Sea Fisheries Linefish Working Group (1994-96)
• Sea Fisheries Abalone Working Group (1994-96)
• South African Marine Linefish Research Group (1980-16, Chairperson 1995-96) Member of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa (1980-96), African Fisheries Society (1994-95), South African Institute of Ecologists (Professional member 1981-96), American Fisheries Society (1995-96), Australian Society for Fish Biology (current), World Aquaculture Society
• FRDC Effects of Trawling Sub-committee (1996-98)
• CRC for Sustainable Finfish Aquaculture (Chair of Bid Committee 2000)
• Australian Fisheries Management Forum – Research Sub-Committee (1998-present)
• Chairman of Crustacean, Abalone, Scalefish, Marine Environment & Aquaculture Research Advisory Groups (1998 - present)
• Recipient of continuous nationally competitive grant funding in South Africa (1981-96) and Australia (1998-2006)
Board membership
• Tasmanian Fishing Industry Training Board (1997-1998)
• Tasmanian Fisheries Research Advisory Board (1998-present)
• Aquaculture Cooperative Research Centre (1998-2001)
• Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (1998-present)
• Marine & Marine Industries Council (1999-present)
• Sustainable Aquaculture of Finfish Cooperative Research Centre (2001-present)
• Aquafin CRC Holdings Pty Ltd (2002-present)
• Aquafin CRC Pty Ltd (2002-present)
Key publications
• Summary: 98 publications - 45 peer-reviewed journal publications, 2 publications accepted/in press.
BUXTON, C.D. & SMALE, M.J. 1989. Abundance and distribution patterns of three temperate reef fishes (Teleostei:Sparidae) in exploited and unexploited areas off the southern Cape coast. J. Appl. Ecol. 26: 441 451.
BUXTON, C.D. 1993. Life-history changes in exploited reef fishes on the east coast of South Africa. Envir. Biol. Fish. 36: 47-63.
BUXTON, C.D. 1993. Marine reserves - the way ahead? In: L.E. Beckley and R.P van der Elst (eds). Fish, Fishers and Fisheries. Oceanog. Res. Inst. Spec. Publ. 2:170-174.
TILNEY, R.L., BUXTON, C.D., NELSON, G. & RADLOFF, S.E. 1996. Ichthyoplankton distribution and dispersal in the Tsitsikamma National Park marine reserve, South Africa. S. Afr. J. mar Sci.17: 1-14.
BUXTON, C.D. 1995. Life history characteristics of temperate reef fishes and their implications for fisheries management. In: Armantrout. N.B.(ed) Conditions of the world’s aquatic habitats. Proc. 1st World Fish. Congr. Theme 1 :105-121.
ROBERTS, C., BALLANTINE, W.J., BUXTON, C.D., DAYTON, P.,CROWDER, L.B., MILON, W., ORBACH, M.K., PAULY, D. & TREXLER, J. 1995. Review of the use of marine fishery reserves in the US Southeastern Atlantic. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SECFC-376. 31pp.
BUXTON, C.D. 1996.The role of Marine Protected Areas in the management of reef fish: A South African example. In: Thackway, R. (ed) 1996. Developing Australia’s representative system of marine protected areas: Criteria and guidelines for identification and selection. Ocean Rescue 2000 Workshop Series 2: 114-124.
BUXTON, C.D., HADDON, M., BARRETT, N. & MUNDY, C. 2001. Marine Protected Areas and Abalone Fishing - A Tasmanian Perspective. Proc. 1st National Abalone Convention.
HADDON, M., BUXTON, C., GARDNER, C & BARRETT, N. 2003. Modelling the effect of introducing MPAs in a commercial fishery: A rock lobster example. In: Beumer, J.P, Grant, & Smith, D.C. Aquatic Protected Areas – What works best and how do we know? Proc. World Congress on Aquatic Protected Areas. Cairns. 428-436.
BARRETT, N. & BUXTON, C.D. 2002. (Editors) Examining underwater visual census techniques for the assessment of population structure and biodiversity in temperate coastal marine protected areas. Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute Technical Report Series 11: 1-114.
SMITH, D., SAINSBURY, K., BUXTON, C., MORRIS, L., HOUGH, D., HADDON, M. & MOORE, M. 2003. Development of an R&D response to ecosystem based management: Spatial management of fisheries and the role of MPAs. Fisheries Research Development Corporation Final Report 2003/073. 51pp
BUXTON, C.D., BARRETT, N., GARDNER, C. & EDGAR, G. 2004. Evaluating the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas as a fisheries management tool. Fisheries Research Development Corporation Final Report 1999/162. 384pp.
BUXTON, C.D., HADDON, M. & BRADSHAW, M. 2006. Regional Impact Assessment for the Marine Protected Areas proposed for the South-East Region. Fisheries Research Development Corporation Final Report 2005/083. 198pp.
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