Professor Sean Connell

Biography/ Background

PhD (University of Sydney), MSc (University of Auckland), BSc (University of Canterbury)

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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:

Ocean acidification & temperature:

• 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
• Falkenberg LJ, Connell SD, Russell BD in press Disrupting the effects of synergies between stressors: improved water quality dampens the effects of future CO2 on a marine habitat. Journal of Applied Ecology
• Russell BD, Harley CDG, ... Connell SD 2012 Predicting ecosystem shifts requires new approaches that integrate the effects of climate change across entire systems. Biology Letters 8:164-166

 Water pollution on habitat loss & recovery:

• 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
• Connell SD 2007 Water quality and the loss of coral reefs and kelp forests: alternative states and the influence of fishing. In: Connell SD, Gillanders BM (eds) Marine Ecology. Oxford University Press, Melbourne

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

• NCEAS (Natioanl Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) - Co-investigator - byrnes_connell.html [11.4K] (text/html)
• 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, 16 Jan 2013