Dr. Alison Green
The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Alison Green is Senior Marine Scientist with TNC's Tropical Marine Conservation Program in the Asia Pacific Region. Alison is an Australian who was worked extensively in coral reef conservation in the Asia Pacific region over the last 18 years, particularly in Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific Islands. Her areas of expertise include coral reef ecology, monitoring, and designing and implementing marine protected areas. Prior to joining TNC, she was Director of Science and Technology at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Alison is TNC scientific team leader for this expedition.
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Asril Djunaidi
Pusat Kajian Masyarakat Pesisir
Asril Djunaidi is founder of Center for Coastal Community Study based in Ternate – the North Maluku. Recently, he focuses his work on coastal community development and marine conservation. He also assists Nuku University in Tidore as a guest lecturer at Marine Science Faculty. After finished his study at Aquatic Resource Management at Pattimura University, he then gained a Master Degree in Tourism and Marine Environment at Wageningen University, the Netherlands in 2002. Even though, he just start to put his effort and interest to work towards Marine Conservation and Coastal Community Development for the last two years, he wants to learn and always attempt to gain as much as possible the knowledge and technology from any resources.
Halmahera REA is an opportunity for him to meet and learn many new things from the worldwide caliber scientists who joint this survey. He will be representing WWF – Indonesia to conduct Turtle Survey as well as assist socio-economic group during the survey.
After this survey, he will develop a conservation strategy joint with other interesting parties based on his capacity in Halmahera comprehensively to save turtles.
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Dr. Lyndon M. DeVantier
Coral Reef Research
Lyndon DeVantier, a freelance coral ecologist, has worked with many international agencies and governments over the past 25 years, in various countries across the Indo-Pacific region, from Arabia to SE Asia, Australasia and Micronesia. Lyndon's work has focused on ecological assessment, monitoring and sampling design, taxonomy and biogeography (specializing in reef-building corals), and training. His main career goals are to improve understanding of the structure and function of coral reefs, and to assist in the development of effective management for their long-term sustainability, particularly focused on design, establishment and effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas. Lyndon has authored more than 120 research papers and technical reports and is coauthor of the book 'Socotra A Natural History of the Islands and Their People'.
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Kent E. Carpenter
Old Dominion University
Kent E. Carpenter is a Professor in Biological Sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He is also the IUCN Global Marine Species Assessment Director which is a program to assess under IUCN Red List Criteria 20,000 marine species over the next 5 years. The purpose is to enable strategic global marine conservation planning through marine hotspot and Key Biodiversity Area analyses from the Red List data. His main interests are Systematics of Fishes, Marine Biogeography and Marine Conservation. His primary tasks on the Halmahera expedition are to gather data that will help with the GMSA assessments, help complete fish surveys, and complete collections needed for population genetic and connectivity studies for marine conservation planning purposes.
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Dr. Gerry Allen
Private Consultant
Dr. Gerry Allen, former Curator of Fishes at the Western Australian Museum (1974-1997) is a coral reef fish specialist who has worked extensively for the CI and TNC over the past 11 years. He recieved his PhD from the University of Hawaii in 1971 and since that time has worked throughout the Indo-Pacific region, having logged more than 8,000 hours of diving. Gerry is definitely “old school, “ in his approach to science, spending nearly as much time in the field as behind a desk looking through a microscope. He is the author of 36 books and more than 400 scientific articles, many of them devoted to the Indonesian region.
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Indra Bayu Vimono
LIPI
Indra was graduated from Malang State University in 2005 focus on Biology. He joint LIPI in 2006 under marine resources division. During Halmahera MEA, he will be conducting Echinoderms survey. He thinks this survey will be a good opportunity to learn many new things from the international scientists.
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Ucu Yanu Arbi
LIPI – Bitung Station
Ucu was graduated from Sepuluh November Institute of Technology Surabaya in 2005 focus on Biology. He joint LIPI in 2006 under marine resources division. During Halmahera MEA, he will be conducting Crustacean survey and collecting shells. This survey will be a good chance to him to gain many new things and meet international scientist during Halmahera MEA 2008.
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Andreas Hary Muljadi
The Nature Conservancy
I was born in Semarang, Central Java – Indonesia on April 27, 1971.
I have studied on Marine Biology and have Bachelor from Diponegoro University, Semarang.
I joined The Nature Conservancy since April 13, 1998 in Komodo, Indonesia and moved to Raja Ampat – Papua, Indonesia since August 2003 until present.
My job in TNC is Marine Biology Monitoring Coordinator and my main duty is coordinating monitoring activities such as Spawning Aggregation Sites Monitoring, Reef Health Monitoring, Resouce Use Monitoring and Occassional Observation in Kofiau, Raja Ampat.
My role in this survey is count the key fisheries species such as Groupers, Napoleon Wrasse, Sharks, and other big fishes by Underwater Visual Census method.
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Muhammad Erdi Lazuardi
Conservation International
My name is Muhammad Erdi Lazuardi. I was Born in Kendal-Center of Java, Indonesia, March 11, 1977 and got BSc Honors in Marine Science from Bogor Agriculture University, Indonesia.
I have been working for Conservation International (CI) - Indonesia, Raja Ampat program as a Science and Monitoring Coordinator for the last 3 years. As a Science and Monitoring Coordinator, I am responsible to conduct reef health monitoring activities in Raja Ampat, doing some monitoring training with partners and support for marine survey around bird head's seascape Papua. I enjoy working in Raja Ampat and interested in both coral taxonomy and coral reef management. Beside my main job, I also doing and interested in design layout for campaign product, underwater photography and sing with my guitar and harmonica.
My role in Halmahera Marine Ecological Assessment is doing cover and diversity of benthic community survey.
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Nurhalis Wahidin
Khairun University
Nurhalis was graduated from Khairun University 1998. In 2004 he completed his Master Degree at Universita Politechnica Delle Marche Ancona – Italy focus on Management of Coral Reef Biodivesity. Now, he teaches at Fisheries and Marine Science Faculty of Khairun University – Ternate. He will be conducting a benthic coral monitoring during Halmahera MEA 2008.
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Imran Taeran
Khairun University
Imran was graduated from Sam Ratulangi University 1994. In 2007 he completed his Master Degree at Bogor Agriculture Institution focus on Marine Technology. Now, he teaches at Fisheries and Marine Science Faculty of Khairun University – Ternate. He will be conducting a Socio-economic of coastal village and fisheries assessment during Halmahera MEA 2008.
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Anwar Ibrahim
BKSDA Maluku
Anwar was graduated from Senior Technical School in Ternate. He works for BKSDA for 13 years. He conducted under survey at Guraici Archipelago in 1992 joint with Bogor Agriculture Institution. His daily responsible focus on monitoring and surveillance of flora and fauna include marine resources. He will assist socio-economic group during Halmahera MEA 2008
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Erick Zulhikman
Ministry of Marines and Fisheries Affair
Erick was graduated from Padjadjaran University 2003. Now, he work at Conservation and Marine National Parks, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. He will be conducting a Socio-economic of coastal village and fisheries assessment during Halmahera MEA 2008.
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Dr Joanne Wilson
The Nature Conservancy
Dr Joanne Wilson is currently Lead Scientist for the Coral Triangle Centre – Indonesia. Until moving to Indonesia 9 months ago she lived and worked in Australia. She has over 15 years experience in marine science on a diverse range of projects including oyster diseases in Tasmania, coral spawning in Queensland and coastal ecology and management in NSW. Joanne has published a number of papers in journals and presented the results of her work at international conferences.
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Dr. Rod Salm
The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Rod Salm is currently Director of Tropical Marine Conservation and Coral Triangle project lead for TNC's Asia Pacific Conservation Region. Raised in Mozambique, Rod has spent most of his professional life in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean and Asia, where he has more than 35 years experience in conservation of coastal and marine ecosystems. He has also worked in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and in polar environments. Rod has published more than 170 articles and 6 books on marine ecology, taxonomy, resource management, conservation, and popular natural history.
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Mark Erdman
A coral reef ecologist from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Erdmann has spent the past 10 years in Indonesia conducting research and implementing reef conservation programs. While his PhD research focused on the ecology and systematics of stomatopods (mantis shrimp), Dr. Erdmann's other research interests include human impacts on coral reefs (especially from destructive fishing practices such as blast and cyanide fishing), reef rehabilitation techniques, coelacanth conservation, and genetic connectivity of Indonesian marine protected areas (MPAs).
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Emre Turak
CORMEC
Emre Turak is an expert coral taxonomist and leading exponent of coral reef surveys, monitoring and conservation, as an expert consultant with CORMEC. He has done research on hard-corals in 15 countries across the world, most notably around Indonesia, PNG, the Red Sea, and the Great Barrier Reef. He is a skilled underwater photographer and cameraman, whose work has been shown on national television. Emre is currently working on the Coral Geographic project with Coral Reef Research.
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Sterling Zumbrunn
Conservation International
Sterling Zumbrunn is CI’s Director of Photography. He graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, and began working for CI’s communications department in 1996. He has concentrated on photographing underwater environments for the past nine years, including locations such as Alaska, the Galapagos Islands, and Raja Ampat, Indonesia. His work has been published in numerous books, magazines and scientific journals around the world.
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