| Operation Wallacea works with academic specialists in numerous fields from a range of European and North American Universities. There are more than 150 academics in total involved in the research programmes. The main scientist for each of the research programmes is listed below followed by a listing of many of the additional researchers who have been on site or are supervising PhD students. The list is not exhaustive and new academics are joining the programme each year. |
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Dr Dave Smith, University of Essex
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. |
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Dr Martin Speight, University of Oxford
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 |
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Dr Kathy Slater, Liverpool John Moores
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. |
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Dr James Saunders, University of St Andrews
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. |
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Dr Richard Field, University of Nottingham
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. |
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Dr Peter Long, University of Bath
Dr Long is the Senior Scientists for the Madagascar surveys and has also been 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. |
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Dr Phil Wheeler, University of Hull
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. |
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Dr Samy Zalat, BioMap Egypt
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 |
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Professor Mike Perrin, University of KwaZulu Natal
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. |
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Dr Rick Bodmer, University of Kent
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. |
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Professor Jorge Angulo Valdes, University of Havana
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. |
| Social and Economic Scientists 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 Ruth Malleson, Social and Economic Consultant Dr Julian Clifton, University of Western Australia Dr Angela Benson, University of Brighton Chris Majors Dr Chui Ling Tam, University of Calgary Dr Katharine Vincent, University of Witwatersrand Dr Caroline Karp, Brown University Dr Ben Vivian, Operation Wallacea Trust Dr Tony Whitten, World Bank Dr Sonja Lillegraven, University of Oslo Dr Amity Doolittle, Yale University |
Genetics, Physiology, Oceanography
and Geology Scientists Dr Kim Hunter, Salisbury University Dr Richard Hunter, Salisbury University Dr Moyra Wilson, University of Durham Dr John Milsom, University College Dublin Dr Ben Horton, UPenn Dr Leanne Hepburn, University of Essex Stephen Burrows, Clark University 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 Cathy Walton, Manchester University |
| Invertebrate (terrestrial and
freshwater) specialists Dr Merlijn Jocque, University of Leuven Andy Godfrey, Consultant Entomologist Dr Francis Gilbert, University of Nottingham Dr Mary Kelly-Quinn, UCD Dr Roy Wiles, University of Glamorgan Dr Graham Rotheray, National Museum of Scotland Dr Keith Willmott, Florida Museum of Natural History Dr Sammy de Grave, Oxford Natural History Museum Professor James Cook, Reading University Dr Patricia Chow Fraser, McMaster University Dr Sarah Beynon, Oxford University |
Ornithologists
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 Wael M Shohdi, Al-Azhar University, Egypt Dr Nico Daupine, University of Georgia Athens Dr Joel Prashant Jack, Environment Protection Institute Matthew White, RSPB |
| Herpetologists Dr 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 David Lesbarreres, Laurentian University |
Botany, Plant Sciences and
Forestry Specialists
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 Grace O'Donovan (formerly University College Dublin) Haitham Zalat, Egyptian Nature and Science Foundation Dr Clay Trauernicht, University of Hawaii Dr Jon Cocking, JCA Ltd Dr Ed Tanner, Cambridge University |
| Marine Scientists 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 US House of Representatives Dr Sarah Curran, Department for Planning and Infrastructure, Fremantle Dr Isabelle Cote, Simon Fraser University Dr Teresa Fernandes, Napier University Dr Kyle Young, Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile Dr Paul Bologna, Montclair State University Dr Emma Hayhurst, Glamorgan University Dr Tim Johnson, Glamorgan University Dr Ed Morgan, Glamorgan University Dr Caine Delacy, University of Western Australia Dr Wayne Bennett, University of West Florida Dr Arthur Anker, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Dr Karen Cheney, University of Queensland |
Mammal Specialists Dr C.B. Wood, Providence College Dr Kym Snarr, University of Toronto 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 John Moores University Dr Mark Bowler, St Andrews University Dr Graham Forbes, University of New Brunswick Andrew P Jennings, IUCN/SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group Dr Myron Shekelle, National University of Singapore Dr Nigel Dunstone, Natural History New Zealand Professor Mike Bruford, Cardiff University Dr Justin Hines, Operation Wallacea Dr Peter Taylor, University of KwaZulu Natal Jeremy Truscott, Sheffield Biodiversity Steering Group Dr Christian Dietz, University of Tuebingen Jill Carpenter, Dr Stewart Thompson, Oxford Brookes University Dario Rivera, University of Queensland Dr Andrew Smith, Anglia Ruskin University |
| Fisheries Scientists Dr Dave Bird, University of the West of England Dr Peter Henderson, University of Oxford Dr Tom Horton, SUNY ESF Professor Tim Gray, University of Newcastle Joel Rice (formerly Washington University) Piotr Kalinowski, Fisheries Consultant Dr Duncan May, Fisheries Consultant |
GIS and Statistical Analysis Dr Fiona Hemsley Flint, Edinburgh University Dr Lisa Manne, University of Toronto Dr Peter Randerson, Cardiff University Dr Bella Davies, Oxford Brookes University Dr Natalie Cooper, Yale University Dr Craig Beech, Peace Parks Foundation |
