Britta Schaffelke
Research Program Leader
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr. Britta Schaffelke is a Research Program Leader - A Healthy and Sustainable Great Barrier Reef. She did Degree 'Diplom Biologin' University of Hamburg, Germany in 1989.Her overarching professional interest is the interface between science and policy. My expertise is the research and management of environmental impacts on tropical ecosystems, especially those related to deteriorating marine water quality. The inshore Great Barrier Reef has been the focus of my research for the past 20 years. Prior to joining AIMS in 2005, she held a variety of positions spanning marine ecological research, environmental management and knowledge exchange. She migrated to Australia from Germany in 1995 for post-doctoral research at AIMS. In 2000 she joined the CSIRO to work on seaweed invasions. After positions in the Water Quality & Coastal Development group of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and at the CRC for Reef Research, she returned to AIMS in 2005 to manage the AIMS component of the Inshore Marine Monitoring Program. In 2006, she became Research Team Leader of the 'Measuring Water Quality and Ecosystem Health' Team and in 2012 a Research Program Leader.
Research Interest
Ecology
Publications
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Schaffelke B, Carleton JH, Doyle JR, Furnas MJ, Gunn K, Skuza MS, Wright M and Zagorskis IE (2011) Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program. Final Report of AIMS Activities 2010/11 - Inshore Water Quality Monitoring. Report for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.. Australian Institute of Marine Science. 83 p.
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Fabricius KE, Cooper TF, Humphrey CA, Uthicke S, De'ath AG, Davidson J, LeGrand H, Thompson AA and Schaffelke B (2012) A bioindicator system for water quality on inshore coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 65: 320 332.
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Haapkyla J, Unsworth RKF, Flavell M, Bourne DG, Schaffelke B and Willis BL (2011) Seasonal rainfall and runoff promote coral disease on an inshore reef . PLoS ONE. 6: 1-10.
