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Daniel Pauly,
University of
British
Columbia,
Canada
Coral Reef
Fisheries:
A Re-Assessment of
Their Ecological and
Socioeconomic Impacts
Wednesday, July 9, 2:00PM
Since 2003 Dr Pauly has been the
Director of Fisheries Centre at the
University of British Columbia
(UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. He
joined UBC as Professor of Fisheries
in 1994, after many years at
the International Centre for Living
Aquatic Resource Management
(ICLARM), then in Manila, Philippines.
Dr. Pauly has authored over 500
scientific articles, book chapters
and shorter contributions, and has
authored or edited 30 books and
reports. These documents, mainly
dedicated to the management of
fisheries (including coral reef fisheries),
and to ecosystem modeling
(including coral reef ecosystems),
present concepts, methods and
software which are used throughout
the world. This applies, notably,
to the ecosystem modeling approach
incorporated in the Ecopath
software (see www.ecopath.org), to
FishBase, the online encyclopedia
of fishes (see www.fishbase.org),
and the global mapping of fisheries
trends (see www.seaaroundus.org),
all of which are strong support systems
for coral reef research.
Two books On the Sex of Fishes and
the Gender of Scientist: a Collection
of Essays in Fisheries Science (Chapman
and Hall, 1994) and Méthodes
pour l'évaluation des ressources
halieutiques (Cépaduès-Éditions,
1997) summarize much previous
work, as do his articles “Fishing
Down Marine Food Webs” (Science,
February 6, 1998), and “Toward
Sustainability in World
Fisheries” (Nature, August 8, 2002).
Two other books (In a Perfect
Ocean: fisheries and ecosystem in
the North Atlantic. Island Press,
2003; and Darwin's Fishes: an encyclopedia
of ichthyology, ecology
and evolution. Cambridge University
Press, 2004) document his current
interests.
Dr. Pauly, a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada (Academy of Science)
since 2003, has received
numerous awards for this work, notably
the Award of Excellence of the
American Fisheries Society (2004),
the International Cosmos Prize from
the Expo ‘90 Foundation of Japan
(2005), and the Volvo Environmental
Prize from the Volvo Foundation,
Stockholm. Profiles of D.
Pauly were published in Science,
Nature and The New York Times,
among others.
Darwin Medal
Lecture
Professor
Terry Hughes
Darwin Medal
Lecture: Science,
Policy and the
Future of
Coral Reefs
Friday, July 11,
8:30AM
The Darwin Medal is awarded
to a person of merit by ISRS at
each ICRS.
Terry Hughes is the Director of the
Australian Research Council’s Centre
of Excellence for Coral Reef
Studies, based at James Cook University
in Townsville. He grew up
in Ireland, where he received his
first degree in Zoology at Trinity
College Dublin. He received his
doctorate in 1984 from Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland,
USA, where his work on the
ecology of Jamaican coral reefs was
supervised by Jeremy Jackson.
From 1984-1990, he was an NSF
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
where he began a second
strand of research working with Joe
Connell on the Great Barrier Reef.
In 1990, Terry moved from California
to Australia, where his work
was mainly focused on the Great
Barrier Reef, and in the Central and
Western Pacific. He was awarded
a Personal Chair at James Cook
University in 2000, and was
elected a Fellow of the Australian
Academy of Sciences in 2001 in
recognition of “a career which has
significantly advanced the world’s
store of scientific knowledge”. In
2002 and 2007 he was awarded
two 5-year ARC Federation Fellowships,
enabling him to work fulltime
on research and to establish,
in 2005, the Centre for Coral Reef
Studies. In 2008, the Centre’s
membership includes more than
140 Ph.D. students from 24 countries.
Terry was formerly an elected
member of the ISRS Council, and
has served on the editorial Board of
Coral Reefs for 10 years as an Advisory,
Topic and Managing Editor.
Terry has published over 80 influential
scientific papers that have focused
mainly on population
biology, community ecology, climate
change, evolution, biogeography,
and reef management. He
has led field studies in many countries,
including Australia, French
Polynesia, Indonesia, Jamaica,
Papua New Guinea, the Solomon
Islands, and Samoa.
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