Ross Jones
Senior Research Scientist
Natural Resources
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
Australia
Biography
Dr.Ross Jones is a Senior Research Scientist. He completed PhD at James Cook University (1992-1996), and then postdoctoral fellowships at The University of Sydney (ARC fellowship 1996-2000) and at The University of Queensland (ARC-Industry Fellowship 2000-2004). During these periods, he researched the response of the coral-algal symbiosis to altered environmental conditions including heat, light and osmotic stress, and in response to xenobiotics such as herbicides, copper, cyanide & effluent from the offshore oil and gas industry. In 2004 he took up a faculty position at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) where I was Principal Investigator of the government funded Marine Environmental Program. This involved designing and implementing various long-term monitoring programs (water quality, seawater temperature, ecological surveys), as well as ecotoxicological studies and surveys of contaminant concentrations. In 2009, he returned to Australia to take up my present position at AIMS-WA in Perth.
Research Interest
Biology
Publications
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Jones R, Ricardo G, Negri AP (2015) Effects of sediments on the reproductive cycle of corals. Marine Pollution Bulletin 100:13-33
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Burns KA, Jones R (2016) Assessment of sediment hydrocarbon contamination from the 2009 Montara oil blow out in the Timor Sea. Environmental Pollution 21:214-225
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Jones R, Bessell-Browne P, Fisher R, Klonowski W, Slivkoff M (2016) Assessing the impacts of sediments from dredging on corals. Marine Pollution Bulletin 102: 9-29
