Visitors/Adjuncts

	Rodolphe Devillers - James Cook University Contact: Rodolphe.Devillers@jcu.edu.au Phone: 61 7 4781 6072 Rodolphe is spending a year at JCU as a visiting scholar to work on conservation planning with the team of Professor Bob Pressey. Originally from France, he obtained an MSc in Earth Sciences in 1999 (Montreal), another MSc in Geomatics Engineering in 2001, before completing a joint PhD in Geomatics Engineering (Laval University, Canada) and Geographic Information Sciences (U. Paris East) in 2004. He is now Associate Professor in the department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. His current research focuses on a range of questions related to the design and use of spatial mapping and analysis methods for better understanding the marine environment.
	Leanne Fernandes - James Cook University Contact : leanne.fernandes@earth2ocean.com Phone: +61 7 4725 1824 Leanne is the Director and principal consultant of Earth to Ocean Australia trading as Earth to Ocean Consulting (www.earth2ocean.com). She holds Masters Degrees in both Tropical Ecology and in Economics. Her Ph.D. in Geography incorporated natural and social sciences into an integrated decision-support system for coral reef management. Over the last decades she has applied her knowledge to address marine resource management problems in the islands of Hawaii, the Maldives and the Caribbean, the Coral Triangle, the North Sea and coastal Australia. Notably, Dr. Fernandes was Manager of the Representative Areas Program at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. This program led to establishment of over one third of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as no-take protected areas. It involved harnessing all relevant natural and social science and collaborations with over 70 communities, and the same number of Traditional Owner groups, over 10 government agencies, and more than 20 different stakeholder groups.
	Sylvain Foret - James Cook University Contact: Sylvain.Foret@anu.edu.au Phone: 61 (0)2 6125 0563 Sylvain is a senior lecturer in the Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics Research School of Biology College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at The Australian National University. His work gravitates around the area of genomics and bioinformatics, where he has developed both applied and theoretical interests. His theoretical work draws from the fields of statistics and computer science, and is motivated by the analysis of biological sequences, phylogenetic inference and gene expression data analysis. His biological research has been driven by his interest in the evolution of invertebrates. In particular, he has worked on the molecular bases of chemical communication, the evolution of development (evo-devo) and epigenetics, both in insects and corals.
	Andrew Hoey - James Cook University Contact: Andrew.Hoey@my.jcu.edu.au Phone: 61 7 4781 5979 Andrew is originally from Sydney, where he completed a Bachelor of Economics at Macquarie University. In 1995 he changed focus, moving to James Cook University (JCU) to study marine ecology. After completing his undergraduate degree, Andrew worked for several years as a research officer and manager of the reef fish biology lab at JCU (1999-2006), before commencing his PhD. During his PhD (2006-2010) he studied fish-macroalgal interactions, in particular the ecosystem role of macroalgal browsing fishes on coral reefs. He worked as an experimental scientist for the Australian Institute of Science (2010-2011) before obtaining a postdoctoral fellowship with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia). His research is focused on understanding the functional importance of different herbivorous fishes, the differential responses of herbivorous fishes to changes in the benthic structure of coral reef habitats, and the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function. In 2011 he was also awarded a Churchill Fellowship to work with Prof Mark Hay, examining the chemical ecology of macroalgal-coral interactions.
	David Mills - James Cook University Contact : david.mills1@jcu.edu.au Phone: +61 7 4781 6747 Starting his research career as crustacean ecologist at the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute, in 2006 David took a leap into the world of fisheries and development. Based at WorldFish Center headquarters in Penang, Malaysia from 2006 until early 2011, he worked on diverse projects relating to fisheries information systems, governance, fisheries and food security, and aquaculture development. He has worked on projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana and Solomon Islands. David is a visiting scholar at the Centre, and has a degree in Marine, Freshwater and Antarctic Biology (1988 - 1992) and a PhD in fisheries ecology (2001-2005) from the University of Tasmania.
	David Mouillot - James Cook University Contact: David.Mouillot@jcu.edu.au Phone: 61 7 4781 5241 David completed a Masters degree and a PhD in Theoretical Ecology from the University of Corsica (France). Then he got a lecturer position in Ecology and Statistics at the University of Montpellier. He went for a sabbatical at the University of Sheffield working in Macroecology with KJ Gaston and thereafter he got a professorship position in Montpellier. From last July he is working, as a Marie Curie European fellow, on the functional and phylogenetic biogeography of coral reef fishes with DR Bellwood at the centre, combining large databases on species occurences, traits and phylogenies.
	Aurelie Moya - James Cook University Contact: Aurelie.Moya@jcu.edu.au Phone: 61 7 4781 4804 Aurelie is originally from France. She completed her PhD at the Scientific Centre of Monaco (2004-2007) where she studied the relation that exists between calcification and photosynthesis in Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate symbiosis by a physiological approach. She then developed her molecular skills at the University of Nice, where she joined a team interested in the molecular dialogue between the two partners of the symbiosis, and more particularly in the molecular response to heat stress (2007-2009). In 2009, she obtained a European fellowship from the Marie Curie actions allowing her to come in Australia to join the Coral Genomics Group. Her project is focused on the molecular response of coral larvae to Ocean Acidification.
	Ingrid van de Leemput - James Cook University Contact: ingridvdleemput@gmail.com Phone: 61 7 4781 4000 Ingrid is a PhD student at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She is visiting the Centre for six months (October 2011 - March 2012). She holds a BSc in Biological Sciences and a MSc in Theoretical Biology. The title of her current PhD project is: "Dynamics of biotic and abiotic interactions, exploring the spatial dimension of resilience". Her project started in March 2009 and is part of the international research program "Building With Nature". Her work originated from the observation that the majority of models studying resilience are based on homogeneous, well-mixed systems, ignoring spatial dynamics. The aim of this project is to study the effect of spatial structure on the resilience of a system as a whole, considering spatial aspects like connectivity, homogeneity versus heterogeneity and spatial patterning. For this, Ingrid is using both generic and more system-specific models. She is visiting the Centre in order to get a better understanding of large-scale coral reef dynamics and their relation to resilience and regime shifts.