A project as ambitious as tHIS required a particularly passionate team
Each team member brought with them a specialised skill set.
Learn more about our mix of marine biologists, communication and media specialists, data analysts, expedition leaders, safety officers, designers, photographers and videographers, planners, underwater robot operators, Virtual Reality, multi-media and technology experts.
AARON SPENCE
Chief Technology
Officer
ABBIE TAYLOR
Program Officer
DR ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ RAMÍREZ
Image Analyst
DR ANA HERRERA-REVELES
Research Scientist
DR ANJANI GANASE
University of QLD PhD Candidate
DR BENJAMIN NEAL
Postdoc Research Fellow -Coral Ecology
CATHERINE KIM
XL Catlin Ocean
Scholar
CATH LEACH
Graphic & Web
Designer
CHIP CUNLIFFE
Project Director,
XL Catlin
CHRISTOPHE BAILHACHE
Head of Tech, Special Operations
CHRISTOPHER MOONEY
Volunteer Research Scientist
CRAIG HEATHERINGTON
Field Technical Officer
DAVID WHILLAS
ROV Operator
DR DOMINIC BRYANT
XL Catlin Ocean Scholar
ELLEN RAY
Comms Manager
DR EMMA KENNEDY
Postdoc Research Fellow
FRAN TRUTER
Infield Operations Manager
JAYNE JENKINS Photographer
JENNIFER MCGOWAN
PhD student with CEED
DR JULIE VERCELLONI
Postdoc Research Fellow
KATHRYN MARKEY
Project Officer
DR KRISTEN BROWN
XL Catlin Ocean Scholar
DR KYRA HAY
Marine Biologist
LORNA PARRY
Project Director, Head
of Comms
LYNTON BURGER
Underwater Photographer
DR MANUEL GONZALEZ
Postdoc Research Fellow - Benthic Ecology
NIKKI THOMSON
Project Officer
NORBERT ENGLEBERT
University of QLD PhD Candidate
PROF. OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG
Chief Scientist
DR OSCAR BEIJBOM
Postdoc Research Fellow
PATRICK GARTRELL
Research Assistant
DR PAUL MUIR
Coral Taxonomist
PETER DALTON
Field Technical Officer
DR PIM BONGAERTS
Postdoc Research Fellow - Deep Reef
RACHAEL HAZELL
Communications & Engagement Officer
RICHARD FITZPATRICK
Cinematographer & Marine Biologist
RICHARD VEVERS
Executive Director
SARA NAYLOR
Project Manager
SHARI STEPANOFF
Project Officer
SOPHIE ANSEL
Field Assistant - Special Operations
A/PROF. SOPHIE DOVE
Research Scientist
SUSIE GREEN
Project Officer
DR ULRICKE SIEBECK
Senior Research Fellow
DR VERONICA RADICE
XL Catlin Ocean Scholar
XL Catlin Ocean Scholars
Dr Anjani Ganase
“Understanding the patterns of coral reef structural complexity and benthic communities along a Caribbean seascape”
Dr Kristen BrowN
“The dynamics of coral-algal interactions on coral reef ecosystems”
Dominic Bryant
“The distribution and abundance of coral at kilometre scales in response to local versus global disturbances in the central Indian Ocean”
Catherine Kim
“Assessing marine biodiversity along the north coast of Timor-Leste across an anthropogenic gradient”
Norbert Englebert
“Light-dependent scleractinian coral communities in the lower mesophotic zone: environmental conditions, host-symbiont diversity and physiology”
Veronica Radice
“Trophic ecology of shallow
and deep reef-building corals”
