Section Heads

Researchers

PhD and Graduate Students

Dr Dave Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Essex University and is the Director of the Coral reef Research Unit, a multi-university research organisation based at Essex University. Dr Smith is Director of Marine Research for Operation Wallacea and also heads up the Wakatobi Marine research programme. His research team in the Wakatobi have produced nearly 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the last 5 years. His main research interests include coral reef ecology, coral reef conservation management, coral reef ecophysiology, coral reef performance criteria, seagrass ecology, tropical marine photophysiology and water pollution biology.

Dr Speight is a Reader in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford and is head of Undergraduate Teaching for the department. Dr Speight has designed the marine science programme in Honduras and is responsible for many of the research projects running on Cayos Cochinos and Utila. His main research interests include reef ecology, tropical marine reserve establishment and impacts, coastal zone ecology and management, forest insect biodiversity and habitat change. Dr Speight is the author of undergraduate text books on insect ecology, tropical pest management and marine ecology

Dr Kathy Slater is a primate researcher based in Mexico and has previously been a lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences and Psychology at John Moores University, Liverpool. Dr Slater runs the Op Wall primate research programme in Honduras and provides dissertation support to those undertaking projects with Operation Wallacea. Her main research interests are in Spider Monkeys and Howler Monkeys.

Dr Saunders leads the Op Wall Honduran marine research programmes on Utila, Cayos Cochinos and the northern Honduran coast. Dr Saunders finished his PhD in marine ecosystem functioning and coastal erosion at the University of St Andrews in 2007. His current research includes monitoring the functioning of mangrove systems in reference to large scale destruction and degradation, in particular the infaunal macrofauna communities role in sediment stabilisation and pollution sequestering. Dr Saunders is also studying the impacts of increased coastal erosion through monitoring the rate and consequences of sediment deposition on coral reefs.

Dr Field is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham and is the Senior Scientist for the Cusuco National Park research programme in Honduras. His main research interests include modelling and prediction of patterns of tree species richness in southern Africa and globally, Conservation and biodiversity research in the tropical forests of Honduras, the ecology of an invasive oak tree species (Quercus cerris L.) within Britain and island biogeography and community structure on Krakatau, Indonesia.

Dr Long is the Assistant Senior Scientist on the Cusuco National Park research programme in Honduras. He has been responsible for developing the database and analysis of the long term changes in biodiversity of the Cusuco National Park. His main research interests include the genetic landscape of birds living in the wetlands of Madagascar.

Dr Wheeler is a Lecturer at the Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences at the University of Hull. Dr Wheeler heads up the Op Wall Lambusango forest research programme in Indonesia. His main research interests include identifying factors that govern population densities, and range limits and distributions, and how interactions with people affect these range limits and distributions. His research is based on linking observational monitoring data from the field to human and environmental variables across wide spatial scales using Geographic Information Systems.

Dr Zalat is the National Project Co-ordinator for the Egyptian biodiversity mapping project (BioMap) and leads the team that is collating all the species records for fauna and flora in Egypt to produce distributional atlases and identify information gaps in the knowledge of Egyptian biodiversity. Dr Zalat heads up the Op Wall Egyptian research programme. He also leads Conservation Egypt the NGO formed to involve Egyptian students in helping with biodiversity atlasing projects

Professor Perrin heads up the academic research for the Op Wall game management research programme in KwaZulu Natal. He is Head of the Biology department at the University of KwaZul Natal. His main research interests include the status, population ecology and conservation biology of African parrots, population and community ecology of small mammals in Africa with particular reference to elephant shrews and gerbils, arid zone ecosystems and environmental physiology, animal behaviour concerning competition and co-existence, communication and species recognition, the biology of African ungulates, particularly feeding and habitats; and carnivores, use of space and niche definition.

Dr Bodmer is a Reader in Conservation Ecology at the University of Kent and heads up the Op Wall Amazonian research projects in Peru. His main research interests include the diversity of tropical mammals, the ecology of Amazonian mammals, sustainability of hunting in the tropics and community-based conservation. Dr Bodmer is also General Manager of the Peruvian NGO AmazonEco that operates the research ships used in the research programme.

Professor Angulo is head of the Marine Investigations Centre at the University of Havana and heads up the Op Wall marine research programme in Cuba. Professor Angulo's main research interests include marine fish ecology and fisheries management, manatee ecology and conservation management of turtles.

Dr Richard Phillips, University of Liverpool
Dr Bob Payne, University of Lakehead
Dr Keri Brondo, University of Memphis
Dr Selina Stead, University of Newcastle
Dr Duncan May
Dr Ruth Malleson, University College London
Dr Julian Clifton, University of Western Australia
Dr Angela Benson, University of Brighton
Chris Majors
Dr Chui Ling Tam, University of Calgary
Dr Tom Horton, SUNY ESF
Dr Katharine Vincent, University of Witwatersrand
Dr Caroline Karp, Brown University

Dr Daniel Kelly, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Andrew Smith, University of Oxford
Dr Andrew Powling, University of Portsmouth
Dr Pascale Poussart, Princeton University
Dr Bruce Carlisle, Northumbria University
Dr Grave O'Donnovan

Dr Merlijn Jocque, University of Leuven
Andy Godfrey
Dr Francis Gilbert, University of Nottingham
Dr Mary Kelly-Quinn, UCD
Dr Roy Wiles, University of Glamorgan
Graham Rotheray, National Museum of Scotland
Keith Willmott, Florida Museum of Natural History

Dr Dave Bird, University of the West of England
Dr Peter Henderson, University of Oxford

Graeme Gillespie, Zoos Victoria
Dr Jeff Burkhart, University of La Verne
Dr Chad Montgomery, Truman State University
Dr Scott Boback, Dickinson College
Dr Bob Reed, USGS
Dr Bjorn Lardner, Colorado State University
Dr Scotty Kyle, KZN Ezemvelo
Dr Eridani Mulder, Central Queensland University

Dr Robin Brace, University of Nottingham
Dr Martin Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Nicola Marples, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Dave Kelly, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Bruce Byers, UMass, Amherst
Dr Nicola Goodship, Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust
Martin Meads, Sparsholt College
Dr Simon Butler, Reading University

Dr Kim Hunter, Salisbury University
Dr Moyra Wilson, University of Durham
Dr John Milsom, University College Dublin
Dr Ben Horton, UPenn
Dr Leanne Hepburn, University of West Florida
Stephen Burrows, Clark
Dr Craig Beech, Peace Parks Foundation
Dr Bella Davies, Oxford Brookes
Dr Alan Dykes, Kingston University
Dr Greg Cowie, University of Edinburgh
Dr Mark Tibbett, University of West Australia
Dr Sylvie Bardin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Dr Kathy Slater
Dr C.B. Wood, Providence College
Dr Kym Snarr, University of Torronto
Dr Adrian Seymour
Dr Nancy Priston, Oxford Brookes University
Dr Anne Zeller, University of Waterloo
Dr Steve Rossiter, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Tigga Kingston, Texas Tech University
Dr Ruth Cox, Liverpool University
Dr Mark Bowler, Kent University
Dr Graham Forbes, University of New Brunswick
Andrew P Jennings
Dr Myron Shekelle, National University of Singapore

Dr Richard Barnes, Cambridge University
Dr James Bell, Victoria University of Wellington
Prof Chris Todd, St Andrews University
Dr Simon Cragg, Portsmouth University
Dr Dave Suggett, Essex Unviersity
Dr Clare Peddie, St Andrews University
Dr Alan Pinder, Dalhousie University
Dr Magnus Johnson, Hull University
Dr Andy Gill, Cranfield University
Professor James Crabbe, University of Bedfordshire
Dr Dai Roberts, Queens University Belfast
Dr Johanna Polsenberg
Dr Sarah Curran, Department for Planning and Infrastructure, Fremantle
Dr Isabelle Cote, Simon Fraser University
Dr Teresa Fernandes, Napier University
Dr Kyle Young
Dr Sammy de Grave, Oxford
Dr Paul Bologna, Montclair State University
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Dr Fiona Hemsley Flint, Edinburgh University
Dr Lisa Manne, University of Toronto