Marine Climate Impacts and Adaptation
Profile
: Ron Thresher
Research Scientist
Role: Community and population ecologist, with particular
interest in the mechanisms of climate change and variability,
and impacts on species distributions, invasive species and deep-sea
reefs.
Science/Professional Areas
Scince/Professional areas; Climate impacts on coastal
fishes, marine invasive species and deep-sea ecosystems
Projects:
- Impacts of past and current climate on diversity and viability
of deep-sea habitats
- Climate effects on the distribution and
abundance of the invasive European shore crab in SE Australia
Bibilography
Ron is a marine ecologist with diverse interests, ranging from
effects of climate on recruitment variability of inshore fish
and crustaceans and management of invasive species to use of
deep-sea corals as indicators of paleo-climate and oceanography. He
got his Ph.D. in fish behavior and ecology at the University
of Miami, and did post-doctoral work at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography and the University of Sydney. He joined the
Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
in 1983. He was the foundation head
of the CSIRO Centre for Research on Introduced Marine Pests (CRIMP)
and since 1997, he has lead a project aimed at developing genetic
technologies for controlling introduced pest species (with a
particular emphasis on carp). He has had
a long interest in the use of the chemical composition of otoliths
(“ear
stones”) in fish as possible markers of their movements
and ecology, and recently broadened that interest to include
analysis of the similar composition of deep-sea corals as indicators
of long-term changes in ocean conditions and its implications
for both understanding climate variability, the biodiversity
and ecology of marine organisms and the viability of deep-sea
reef communities.
Education
Ph.D.
(Biological Oceanography) - May 1977, Rosenstiel School of Marine
and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Florida.
M.S. (Biological
Oceanograohy) - December 1974, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Miami, Florida.
B.S. (Zoology) -
June 1970, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
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Contact:
- Email: Ron.Thresher@csiro.au
- Phone: (03) 6232 5378, (International +61 3 6232 5378)
- Post: CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research
GPO Box 1538
HOBART TAS 7001
Australia
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