Do Marine Protected Areas work, a presentation to the South Australian Parliament held on 5th April 2011. Part 1 introduces the basic scientific principles behind the Marine reserve systems.
To view - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mcRt71XQtI
To view - Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euf5Pi8rU5Y
Professor Hugh Possingham is an Australian Professorial Fellow in Integrative Biology. He received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1987. His research projects are in the field of decision theory in conservation biology:
· Reserve design, biodiversity management and fire regime management
· Population viability analysis (PVA) - including the development of ALEX
· Pollination ecology
· Metapopulation dynamics
· Ecological economics
· Stochastic modelling
· Biodiversity and climate change
· Population dynamics of marine organisms
· Marine reserve design
· Marine population dynamics
· Avian community ecology
· Edge effects and fragmentation
· Landscape ecology
· Behavioural and population ecology of parasitoids
Expanded biography
Professor Hugh Possingham completed Applied Mathematics Honours at The University of Adelaide in 1984. After attaining a Rhodes Scholarship Hugh completed his D.Phil at Oxford University in 1987. Postdoctoral research periods followed at Stanford University and ANU (as an ARC QEII Fellow).
In 1991 he took a Lectureship, later Senior Lectureship, in Applied Mathematics at The University of Adelaide. In 1995 he was appointed Foundation Chair of the Department of Environmental Science at The University of Adelaide. In July 2000 Hugh took up a joint Professorship between Ecology and Mathematics at The University of Queensland. He was elected to The Australian Academy of Science in 2005 and now sits on their council. Professor Possingham is currently an ARC Federation fellow (2007 -- 2011) and Director of a Commonwealth Environment Research Facility www.aeda.edu.au.
The Possingham lab includes nine postdoctoral researchers and twenty-five PhD students working on empirical and theoretical aspects of the applied population ecology of plants and animals. Particular areas of recent research include marine reserve design, optimal landscape reconstruction for birds, metapopulation dynamics of plants and animals, population viability analysis, kangaroo and koala management, and optimal weed control (as part of the Weeds CRC). The lab has a unifying interest in environmental applications of decision theory. Hugh has published over 100 refereed articles and book chapters.
Hugh has a variety of broader public roles including past Chair of the federal government Biological Diversity Advisory Committee, member of the NHT Advisory Committee, member of the state Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vegetation Management, member of the Research and Conservation Committee of Birds Australia and member of the Board of Greening Australia, Queensland.
The lab has a unifying interest in environmental applications of decision theory. Its reserve design software, Marxan (Eureka Prize 2009) is now used in over 100 countries to build their marine reserve system designs. Hugh has co-authored over 220 Web of Science papers which have received over 5500 citations. He sits on 16 boards and committees external to the University including: Member of the Queensland Smart State Council, Birds Australia Atlas Advisory Committee, Wildcountry Council, FASTS and The Myer Foundation Sustainability and Environment Committee.
Professor Hugh Possingham's research interests are in pure and applied population ecology: efficient reserve design and habitat reconstruction; optimal management of populations for conservation, pest control and harvesting; survey methods for detecting bird decline; and metapopulation dynamics of mound springs snails.
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Part 2 - Do Marine Protected Areas work? - Prof Hugh Possinghmanby TJwildernessSA166 views
Great video - really gives an insight into some of the science behind this process. For all those who question the science and it's existence... well, you're looking at it now!
lysflet 10 months ago