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Adjunct Professor Eric Wolanski is an estuarine oceanographer and ecohydrologist at James Cook University. His research interests range from the oceanography of coral reefs, mangroves, and muddy estuaries to the interaction between physical and biological processes determining ecosystem health in tropical waters. He has published 430 book chapters, scientific papers and reports. He has a Google Scholar h-index of 87 and 25,000 citations. Eric is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia (ret.), and l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer (Belgium). He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal, 2 Doctorate Honoris Causa (by the catholic University of Louvain and the University of Hull), a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunications Award for Excellence, and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association. Eric is an Editor-in-Chief of Wetland Ecology and Management, and of the Elsevier book series Ecohydrology from catchment to coast, an Honorary Editor of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, and a member of the editorial board of 4 other journals. Michael J. Kingsford is a Distinguished Professor in the Marine Biology and Aquaculture group of the College of Science and Engineering at James Cook University (JCU), Australia. Over a 14 year period he has held positions as Head of the School of Marine Biology and Tropical Biology and Dean of the College of Marine and Environmental Sciences. Furthermore, he has been President of the Australian Coral Reef Society, Director of One Tree Island Research Station, member of the Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation and the Museum of Tropical Queensland advisory committees. His awards include, the K. Radway Allen Award Awarded for an outstanding contribution in fish or fisheries science by the Australian Society for Fish Biology (2017) and, the AMSA Jubilee Award (2021) for excellence in marine research and an outstanding contribution to marine research in Australia. He has published extensively on the ecology of reef fishes, biological oceanography, climate change and jellyfishes. In total, he has two hundred and twenty publications including four major books, forty two chapters in books, 165 refereed publications and nine refereed proceedings (h-index Google Scholar = 58). He has been a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovative Coral Reef Studies. A major focus of his research has been on reef fish ecology and demography, connectivity of reef fish populations, the ecology and behavior of larval fishes, the utility of Marine Protected Areas, environmental records in corals and fishes. He has forty years of research experience of studying fishes, jellyfishes and oceanography in temperate and tropical regions of Australia and other parts of the world.
Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs, second edition, is an edited collection of contributed chapters that take a highly interdisciplinary and applied perspective on coral reef studies, in its present-day (2024) state. This book will be useful to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in coral reef science, particularly those approaching the topic from the perspective of physical geography or biological and physical oceanography. Reef researchers and conservation practitioners with an interest in Australia or nearby Pacific countries will find this book a useful holistic treatment of present-day coral reef science in the Great Barrier Reef region. Anyone interested in linkages of the land to the sea, and in transport of organisms or material within coastal marine systems, will also find this book beneficial. Robert A. B. Mason, The University of Queensland, Australia; in Limnology and Oceanography, published by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), Nov 2024. This excellent book was edited by two global authorities, Professors Eric Wolanski and Mike Kingsford, with 88 authors in 29 chapters; Section one covers the role of oceanography, section two land-sea connectivity, section three biophysical oceanography, and section four the consequences of the changes observed. The extensive information shows the benefit of creating a book with chapters that are not constrained as are journal research papers. There is a mix of theory and practical/real examples and so this should be recommended reading as a textbook for high level undergraduates and postgraduates, and as a source of ideas for research for postdoctoral researchers.The book has superb illustrations with on-line resources and animations showing the modelling. There is a very extensive and comprehensive reference list from which could be created an annotated and searchable bibliography of GBR. Professor Wolanski and Kingsford are to be congratulated on pulling together this book. However, most notably, the book is also a tribute to many researchers but especially the late Professor John Brodie of James Cook University who sadly left us far too early but after leaving a huge legacy of work on the GBR. Mike Elliott, FMBA; in The Marine Biologist, Jan 2025.
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