Tom Bridge
ARC DECRA Fellow (2018-); Senior Curator
James Cook University and Queensland Museum Network
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
ARC DECRA Fellow (2018-); Senior Curator
James Cook University and Queensland Museum Network
Research Fellow – ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies / Australian Institute of Marine Science (2013 – 2016)
Research Fellow – ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies -(2012 -2013)
Tom is originally from Sydney, Australia, and completed an honours degree in Marine Science at the University of Sydney in 2005. After a working in the tourism industry on the Great Barrier Reef, he moved to Townsville in 2007 to begin his PhD in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, JCU. His PhD research focussed on the benthic ecology of mesophotic coral ecosystems on the Great Barrier Reef. Tom has a broad interest in the biodiversity and biogeography of corals reefs, and his current research is focussed on understanding coral reef biodiversity in deeper waters beyond SCUBA diving depth, the relationship between deep and shallow reef habitats and utilising new technologies to better understand marine ecosystems. Tom is currently Senior Curator of Corals at the Queensland Museum Network, co-appointed with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at JCU.
Coral reef ecology, biogeography and conservation; mesophotic coral reefs ecosystems, depth-diversity patterns in coral reefs, remote imaging of marine environments, 3D mapping
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au