Richard Brinkman
Research Program Leader
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr. Richard Brinkman is the Research Program Leader at Sustainable Coastal Ecosystems and Industries in Tropical Australia, He has significant expertise in conducting observational and modelling based research on coastal and shelf dynamics, coupling of shelf and ocean circulation, and physical-biological interactions at regional and local scales on Australia¿s tropical coasts and marginal seas, and my work is characterised by applying a combination of observational and modelling approaches. He did PhD Oceanography, School of Mathematics and Physics, James Cook University in 2006, and BSc Hons, Oceanography and Meteorology, Flinders University in 1991.
Research Interest
Coastal oceanography and physical-biological interactions on continental shelves.
Publications
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McKinnon AD, Williams A, Young J, Ceccarelli DM, Dunstan P, Brewin RJW, Watson R, Brinkman R, Cappo M, Duggan S, Kelley R, Ridgway K, Lindsay D, Gledhill D, Hutton T, Richardson AJ (2014) Tropical Marginal Seas: Priority regions for managing marine biodiversity and ecosystem function. Annual Review of Marine Science 6: 415-437
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Schiller A, Herzfeld M, Brinkman R, Stuart G (2014) Monitoring, predicting and managing one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95(1): 23-30
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McKinnon AD, Duggan S, Holliday, Brinkman R (2015) Plankton community structure and connectivity in the Kimberley-Browse region of NW Australia, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 153: 156-167
