Professor Sean Connell

Biography/ Background

PLEASE VISIT MY WEBSITE       www.marinebiology.adelaide.edu.au/people/staff/sean.html

Teaching Interests

• I designed the BSc (Marine Biology).
• My teaching is informed from my research and work with policy-makers and managers.
• Students enjoy these courses because they close the gap between graduation and employment; connecting them to industry and career aspirations.  

Research Interests

I forecast the ecological outcomes of management at local-regional-global scales by: 

• Generating knowledge of human influences on producers (e.g. nutrient-pollution), their consumers (e.g. fishing), and synergies with climate (e.g. ocean acidification); as applied to subtidal habitat.
• Reconciling conflicting perspectives across biogeographic boundaries (i.e. MacroEcology) and time (i.e. the past and the future environments). 
• Collaboration with coastal mangers, to changed our perspective of Australian coastal policy, and recently assisted future efforts by recognizing pre-industrial environments and their CO2 and temperate driven future. 

Publications

Forecasting opportunities for better use of natural resources:

• Connell SD & BD Russell 2010  The direct effects of increasing  CO₂  and temperature on non-calcifying organisms: increasing the potential for phase shifts in kelp forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 277: 1409-1415
• Gorman, Russell & SD Connell 2009 Land-to-sea connectivity: linking human-derived terrestrial subsidies to subtidal habitat change on open rocky coasts. Ecological Applications 19: 1114-1126
• Gorman D & SD Connell 2009  Recovering subtidal forests in human-dominated landscapes.  Journal of Applied Ecology 46: 1258-1265

Seeking more progressive research directions:

• Russell BD & SD Connell 2010  Honing the geoengineering strategy. Science 327, 144-145
• Connell SD & Irving 2009 The subtidal ecology of rocky coast: local-regional-biogeographic regional patterns and their experimental analysis. In Marine Macroecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Russell & SD Connell 2009 Eutrophication science: moving into the future. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 527-528.

More samples of publications: http://www.marinebiology.adelaide.edu.au/people/staff/sean.html

Files

• I assist the public understand pressing issues facing marine science & society: e.g. - Media_release.pdf [1.0MB] (application/pdf)
• I am interested in an Australian perspective of Marine Ecology: e.g. my book for Australians - Book.jpg [39.8K] (image/jpeg)
• I reflect & plan future comment on marine science's leadership & future: e.g. last paragraphs of - Connell_etal_2008.pdf [340.5K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 29 Feb 2012