Prof. Iain Suthers

BSc. MSc. PhD

School of Biological Earth and Environmental Science
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA

Phone: +612 9385 2065
Fax: +612 9385 1558

Email: i.suthers at unsw.edu.au

Research Interests

Iain Suthers is a Professor in the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Iain has published over 70 papers and book chapters on a variety of marine subjects concerning fisheries oceanography (including a soon-to-be-launched book on plankton).

He completed his PhD at Dalhousie U-BIO (with Ken Frank) and post-doctoral work in Norway as well as back home in Australia before taking up a lectureship at the University of New South Wales in 1991. Since then he has conducted eight research voyages off eastern Australia, sampled the plankton of dozens of estuaries with local and state government agencies, aided by his nearly 20 PhD students and 40 honours students on projects from red tides to larval fish ecology, fish age and growth, eutrophication and marine food webs.

He teaches a 3rd year University Fisheries and Oceanograph course and has a laboratory of eight PhD students in collaboration with his post-doc (Dr Matt Taylor), investigating estuarine ecology and the environmental impacts of restocking and the acoustic tracking of fish and sharks.

Iain holds the following positions:

1. Chairman of NSW-Integrated Marine Observing System (NCRIS,) 2007-present;
2. IMOS is a $50 million initiative of the Federal Government to observe our oceans;
3. Scientific Advisory Committee for the National Research Facility, R.V. Southern Surveyor (2002-present);
4. Scientific Advisory Committee for Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS) (2005-present);
5. Scientific Advisory Committee for Sea World Research & Rescue Foundation (2001-present);
6. Chairman of Education Committee, Australian Soc. Fish Biology (2004);