Position: Emeritus Professor (University of Newcastle)

Address: Environmental Research Institute,
Castle Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD

Tel: +44 (0) 1847 889589

Fax: +44 (0)1847 890014

E-mail: ProfBarbaraBrown@aol.com

Joined ERI: December 2004

Background:

• First Degree BSc (Zoology) Queen Mary College University of London (Ist class Hons)

• PhD Queen Mary College, University of London

• MA Cambridge

Research Interests:

• Biology and Ecology of Corals (with particular emphasis on the effects of environment on coral reefs)

Selected Publications:

• Brown BE (1997) Coral bleaching: causes and consequences Coral Reefs 16 S129-S138

• Brown BE, Dunne RP, Goodson MS, Douglas AE (2000) Bleaching patterns in reef corals Nature 404:142-143

• Brown BE, Downs CA, Dunne RP, Gibb SW (2002) Exploring the basis of thermotolernace in the reef coral Goniastrea aspera. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 242:119-129
• Coles SL, Brown BE (2003) Coral Bleaching – Capacity for Acclimatisation and Adaptation. Adv Mar Biol 46:183-223
• Brown BE, Bythell JC (in press) Perspectives on mucus secretion in reef corals. Mar Ecol Prog Ser

Selected Presentations:

• 1994 Invited Speaker at Meeting on Biological Indicators of Climate Change (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Convener and contributor to this meeting.
• 1996 Plenary address at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium Panama on ‘Coral Bleaching – Causes and Consequences’
• 1999 Invited Speaker at Society for Experimental Biology meeting on ‘Thermotolerance’
• 2000 Invited Speaker at the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium Bali, Indonesia on ‘The Effects of Solar Radiation on Coral Bleaching’

Other Info:

As of July 2005 Editor in Chief of Coral Reefs – the journal of the International Society for Reef Studies

Currently holding a History of Science grant from the Royal Society and a NERC research grant on the effects of the Indian Ocean tsunami on coral reefs of western Thailand.

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