Pip Cohen
James Cook University
Contact: p.cohen@cgiar.org
Phone: +61 7 4781 3197
Pip is from Tasmania where she completed her undergrad, honours and first three years of her career in fisheries research. Pip then escaped the cold of Tassie to the tropical Pacific – Tonga, Fiji and then Solomon Islands. Pip lived and worked in the Pacific for the next 5 years as an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development, a consultant on a fisheries and development project and then a coordinator for a regional knowledge management project. In 2013 Pip completed her PhD at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Pip is now employed as a scientist for WorldFish, and is based at the Centre. Pip’s research focuses on understanding community-based fisheries management for improving food security in the Pacific.
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.
Bruno Lapeyre
James Cook University
Contact: bruno.lapeyre@jcu.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 4781 4402
Bruno is a French visiting scientist from Montpellier (CRBM-CNRS) where his group is studying RNA metabolism in yeast and has characterized several nucleotide modification enzymes involved in ribosome biogenesis and tRNA maturation. In Townsville, Bruno is working with David Miller on the coral/dinoflagellate symbiosis, with a particular interest in the unusual features of dinoflagellate genomes, such as DNA structure, modification and replication. Being an experimental geneticist and molecular biologist, Bruno looks forward gaining expertise from the lab in bioinformatics, comparative genomics and evolutionary studies.
David Mills
James Cook University
Contact: d.mills@cgiar.org
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.
