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Keynote Speakers The symposium will involve several sessions during which particular themes will be addressed by invited keynote speakers. The four themes and the scientists who have agreed to contribute as keynote speakers are: 1. Dispersal of eggs and larvae – Greg Jenkins and Alison King Biographies of Keynote Speakers International Keynote Speaker Dr Steven Campana
Dr. Steven Campana is a Senior Scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada and an Adjunct Professor at both Dalhousie University and the University of Windsor. He directs an active research program in fish population dynamics, with particular emphasis on the development of new technologies in support of age determination, stock discrimination, shark population dynamics and fish tracking. He currently heads both the Otolith Research Laboratory and the Shark Research Laboratory, leads a number of interdisiplinary multinational projects, and has published more than 200 primary and technical scientific papers. National Keynote Speakers Professor Greg Jenkins
Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Australia
Greg Jenkins is the manager of the fish ecology program at the Fisheries Research Branch, Department of Primary Industries Victoria, and Professorial Fellow with the Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne. Over more than 20 years Greg has led a series of Australian Research Council and Fisheries Research and Development Corporation funded projects exploring the early life history of fish, and in particular the influence of the environment (climate, oceanography and habitat) on larval ecology and recruitment success. The research has made extensive use of daily otolith rings to investigate larval biology and dispersal. This information has been integrated into simulation models including realistic larval biology and behaviours to study larval dispersal and advection pathways. Recently the research has been augmented with modern techniques such as otolith microchemistry and genetics to answer questions relating to dispersal and connectivity. This research has led to the publication of approximately 80 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr Alison King
Alison is a Principal Research Fellow at the Charles Darwin University and has over 15 years experience researching the ecology of river systems, with a focus on the ecology of freshwater fish. A major research theme has been the spawning and recruitment ecology of freshwater fish, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin. She currently leads a team broadly investigating the role of flow in the ecology of fish, with their research primarily targeted at developing applied science outcomes to underpin river restoration and management, particularly environmental flows. She is regularly involved with expert panels and management committee’s, and often provides advice to managers and policy officers. She has published over 30 journal articles and book chapters, and numerous reports and conference presentations. Dr Jayson Semmens
After receiving his PhD from JCU in 2000, Jayson began an ARC Postdoc at UTAS in 2001 and has been there ever since. A major focus of his UTAS research has been examining the movement, migration and activity of marine animals, with the aim of understanding the underlying biological and ecological drivers behind these behaviours. Jayson has employed acoustic tracking, telemetry and biologging approaches for a wide variety of marine organisms, including crustaceans, fish, cephalopods, sharks and seals, often with the aim of developing spatial management strategies. More recently he has established physiological telemetry approaches for estimating the metabolic rate of marine animals in the field. This allows for the energetic costs associated with different activities to be estimated and the relative influence on the life history strategies determined. Jayson has also begun to use this field metabolic data to better understand how animals are coping with anthropogenic changes in marine systems. Dr John Koehn
John is a fish biologist with 30 years experience in research, assessment, conservation and management of Australian native freshwater fishes. He is the author of over 180 scientific publications, 44 of which have involved fish tagging, tracking or fish movements in some form. He has published widely on threats to native species, including ensuring river connectivity and the provision of fish passage. Forthcoming publications include a chapter in an American Fisheries Society Biotelemetry book and a chapter on Fish movements and migration in the Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes. Since tagging his first river blackfish in 1983, he has pioneered larval collection of Murray Darling Basin species and the radio tracking of Australian freshwater fish, tracking many of our iconic species including Murray cod. He organised and co-edited the Australian Society for Fish Biology 1999 Bendigo Workshop Fish Movement and Migration, and the climate change symposium in Melbourne in 2010. John is a past President of the Australian Society for Fish Biology. Dr Colin Simpfendorfer
Colin Simpfendorfer has spent most of his career researching the biology and ecology of sharks, with the aim of improving conservation and management of this iconic group. He received his PhD in Zoology from James Cook University in 1993 working on the life history of tropical sharks. He then worked on temperate shark fisheries at the Western Australian Fisheries Department. In 1998 he moved to Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, where he eventually became the Manager of the Elasmobranch Fisheries and Conservation Program in the Center for Shark Research. In Florida his research focused on the conservation biology of endangered sawfish, but he also developed an interest in the analysis of data from acoustic monitoring studies. In 2007 he returned to JCU as the Director of the Fishing and Fisheries Research Centre. He holds several extra-mural appointments, including Regional Vice-Chair (Oceania) for the IUCN’s Shark Specialist Group, the Chair of AFMA’s Shark Resources Assessment Group and the Chair of the Australian Animal Tracking and Monitoring System’s Data Subcommittee. He has more than 80 journal publications on topics including life history, population dynamics, fisheries, conservation, ecology, data analysis, parasites and more. Dr Craig Mundy
Dr Craig Mundy has been the Abalone Biologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (formerly Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute), University of Tasmania for the last 10 years and is primarily responsible for abalone wild fisheries research within Tasmania (the World's largest wild abalone fishery). He has had 26 years’ experience with sub-tidal biology and ecology ranging from tropical to temperate waters. Craig worked and studied at the Australian Institute of Marine Science for 10 years focusing on community dynamics of corals and reproductive biology of echinoderms, and survey and experimental design before shifting to New Zealand. His PhD examined the role of larval behaviour in recruitment process and dynamics of scleractinian corals. Craig’s current research interests are focused in two distinct areas 1) the ecology of exploited abalone populations, specifically the importance of early life history and reproductive ecology in managing exploitation of blacklip and greenlip abalone; and 2) the use of digital methods for collecting geo-referenced fisheries data and the application of spatial statistical methods for informing fishery assessment in small vessel fisheries. Dr Simon Goldsworthy
Simon Goldsworthy has been undertaking research in the field of marine biology for 25 years. His main research interests include the ecology of marine mammals and seabirds, ecosystem trophodynamics, and the mitigation of interactions between protected marine species and fisheries. He undertook his Bachelor of Science and PhD degrees at Monash University in Melbourne, completing the latter in 1992. He then undertook a two-year Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in the USA. After returning to Australia in 1995, he worked for two years monitoring the impacts of Australia’s largest on-shore oil spill, the Iron Baron, on little penguin populations in Tasmania; then for 2 years at CSIRO Marine Research in Hobart, investigating the ecological effects of subantarctic fisheries for Patagonian toothfish around Macquarie Island. In 2000, he took up a lecturing position in the Zoology Department at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and in 2004 he moved to South Australia to take up a position as Principal Scientist with SARDI Aquatic Sciences where he heads the Threatened, Endangered and Protected Species Subprogram. He currently coordinates a number of significant research programs that focus on the foraging and population ecology of pelagic predators and ecosystem dynamics in the eastern Great Australian Bight. Dr Jenny Ovenden
Jenny Ovenden is a principal research scientist with the Queensland Government and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Queensland. With her team at the Molecular Fisheries Laboratory http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/4791_6844.htm, Jenny uses population and molecular genetics as well as maths and stats for research on commercial fisheries species in Australia. The team collaborates researchers in agencies around Australia and worldwide. The work covers many species from sharks and rays, through finfish to invertebrates such as crustaceans and molluscs. Jenny is an associate editor of Marine and Freshwater Research, Fish and Fisheries and Integrative Zoology, a committee member of SeaWorld Research and Rescue Foundation and a member of the IUCN shark specialist group.
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