Michael Collins
Michael Collins is Emeritus Professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, UK. He took his bachelor in 1967 in Civil engineering, his D.Phil. Sediment Transport in Rivers at University of Sussex (1973) and a D.Sc University of Sussex (1995) in Sediment Dynamics.
He has wide-ranging experience in the study of sediments, including their supply, transport, and deposition in environments, ranging from the headwaters of rivers to the deep ocean. From 1973-1986, he worked in the Department of Oceanography, University College of Swansea. In 1986 he was a visiting fellow at St Johns College, Cambridge. In 1987 he moved to the Department of Oceanography, University of Southampton, and was appointed as a Professor in 1992. He was the leader of the Coastal and Shelf Seas Thematic Group of the Southampton Oceanography Centre, has published more than 200 scientific papers in refereed journals and authored extensive scientific reports, is the founding editor of the international marine science journal Continental Shelf Research, which he has continued to edit for the past 27 years. Professor Collins is a fellow of the Geological Society of London, and is a consultant to many national and international organisations and industrial concerns. He is currently a visiting UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Professor-at-Large.
Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton
University of Southampton Waterfront Campus
European Way
Southampton SO14 3ZH UK
Email: mbc@soc.soton.ac.uk
Urania Christaki
Urania Christaki, received her Bachelor degree in Biology from University of Athens. Then, she conducted two master degrees, first in Hydrobiology (University of St. Petersbourg, Russia) and then in Oceanography (University of Athens). In 1995 she defended her Ph.D in Oceanography and in 2002 she was elected Professor at the Université de la Mediterrannée, Marseilles, France. Currently, she is a professor at Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale leading the lab Laboratoire d’Océanologie et des Geosciences.
Her research interests lie within the filed of Microbial Ecology. Microbial trophodynamics, ranging from bacterial activities to the feeding selectivity of protozoa, and to the relationships of microbes with higher level mesozooplankton and biogeochemistry. She is utilizing molecular tools to explore microeucaryote diversity in a functional and ecological context. Finally, she has authored more than 30 research papers since 2007, and more than 54 in total.
Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
Laboratoire d’Océanologie et des Geosciences
CNRS-UMR LOG 8187
Resp. Equipe 1 – Ecologie Planctonique
32 Ave. Foch, 62930 Wimereux, FR
Email: Urania.Christaki@univ-littoral.fr
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner is the director of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), a Professor for Aquatic Ecology at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU) and an Adjunct Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag). He received a PhD from the University of Vienna (1993) and a Titulary Professorship at ETH (2005).
His main research fields are Ecohydrology, freshwater biology, biodiversity and ecosystem ecology. His current research interest include ecology-hydrology linkages, human-ecosystem interactions, freshwater biodiversity, novel ecosystems, urban ecology and light pollution. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Aquatic Sciences and Subject Editor of the journal Ecosystems. He has published more than 130 scientific papers. In 2009, he edited a comprehensive book on European Rivers (Rivers of Europe, Elsevier). Klement Tockner has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects, actually coordinates the EC-funded project BioFresh (www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu). He is member of several scientific committees including the crosscutting group on freshwater biodiversity of DIVERSITAS and GEO-BON.
Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
Müggelseedamm 310, 12587 Berlin
Email: tockner@igb-berlin.de
Simonetta Fraschetti
With 68 publications, Dr Frachetti’s research is mainly focused on marine ecology and conservation, with a special interest on how natural and human drivers combine to affect the structure and functioning of marine biodiversity in space and time, and how this understanding can be used in the management and conservation of marine ecosystems. She is also involved in many collaborative projects investigating how the exclusion of human activities affects habitats and also identifying the criteria and the quantitative procedures for the planning and the implementation of network of Marine Protected Areas. She is presently teaching Animal Ecology and Conservation and Management of the Marine Environment at the University of Salento and Conservation Planning at the University of Bologna.
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali
DiSTeBA – Università del Salento
Strada Prov. Monteroni
I 73100 Lecce
Email: simona.fraschetti@unisalento.it