Estuarine Ecohydrology

Professor Eric Wolanski is a coastal oceanographer and ecohydrologist. Eric has 360 publications; he is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia, and l'Acad mie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal for services in estuarine and coastal oceanography, a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Catholic University of Louvain, a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunication award for excellence, and the ECSA LifeTime Achievement Award. Eric a member of the Scientific and Policy Committee of LOICZ and of EMECS. He is the senior Co-Editor-in-Chief of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, chief editor of Wetlands Ecology and Management, and the Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science. Eric is the first recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the international Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association. Director of the Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies and Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. Professor Elliott is a marine biologist with a wide experience of biological and environmental analyses, but also with interests in marine management and policy. Mike has studied the biota, physical characteristics and management of estuaries and coasts in great detail. His teaching, research, advisory and consultancy work has included studies of sediments, water quality, zooplankton, intertidal and subtidal benthic communities and fish communities, as well as policy, governance and management. In many instances, the interactions between these aspects have been investigated, usually in relation to human activities and the effects of human pressures on the systems. Mike has published widely in this field, co-authoring/co-editing 12 books and contributing to over 170 peer-reviewed publications. This includes co-authoring 'The Estuarine Ecosystem: ecology, threats and management' (with DS McLusky, OUP, 2004), 'Ecology of Marine Sediments: science to management' (with JS Gray, OUP, 2009) and one of the volumes and several of the contributions in the Elsevier Treatise on Estuarine & Coastal Science. He has acted as an advisor on many environmental matters for academia, industry, government and statutory bodies in the UK and elsewhere. Mike is a past-President of the international Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association and is also a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science and an Editorial Advisor of Marine Pollution Bulletin and Marine Ecology Progress Series. He was previously the Senior Marine Biologist of the Forth River Purification Board (now the Scottish Environmental protection Agency). Professor Elliott has been a member of many advisory and evaluation boards in the UK and elsewhere including being appointed by the UK Environment Secretary of State onto the Defra Marine Conservation Zone Science Advisory Panel.