Marine Climate Impacts and Adaptation
Profile
: Anthony J Richardson
Project Leader (CSIRO); Senior Lecturer (University of
Queensland)
Science / Professional Areas
- biological oceanography
- marine climate impacts
Projects
- AusCPR - an Australian zooplankton survey
- Integrating
climate and Australian Ecopath models to predict
climate change impacts on Australian marine systems
- resampling of Queensland intertidal communities
Biography
Dr Anthony Richardson's work is recognised internationally
for significant contributions in the fields of climate impacts
on marine species, plankton dynamics, and linkages between the
environment, plankton and fisheries. He has diverse research
interests in marine ecology, focusing on understanding the effects
of environmental variability on marine systems as a window to
predicting impacts of climate change.
Research by Dr Richardson and collaborators has provided
our first evidence of earlier timing of phytoplankton productivity
in the ocean with global warming including the potential mismatch
between successive trophic levels (Edwards & Richardson, Nature 430:
881-884). We have also found ocean-basin changes in primary
and secondary productivity (increasing near Poles, decreasing
near Tropics) over the last 50 years in response to climate
change (Richardson & Schoeman 2004, Science 305:
1609-1612). This knowledge has helped synthesise our understanding
of impacts of climate change on pelagic marine ecosystems (Hays,
Richardson, Robinson 2005 TREE 20:
337-344), has provided seminal knowledge contributing to IPCC
Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPCC
2007), and has been profiled in Science (Stokstad
2004, Science 305: 1548-1549).
Summary track record
Peer-reviewed scientific publications: 53
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia articles: 2
Invited Keynote Addresses: 4
Interviews on Radio, TV, Newspapers: 26
Related
Contact:
- Email: Anthony.Richardson@csiro.au
- Phone: (07) 3826 7183, (International +61 7 3826 7183)
- Post: CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research
PO Box 120
CLEVELAND QLD 4163
Australia
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