Contact details

Prof. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Coral Reef Ecosystems Lab
School of Biological Sciences
The University of Queensland
Gehrmann Laboratories (#60)
St Lucia QLD 4072 Australia

(tel) +61 (0) 733651156
(fax) +61 (0) 733654755
(email) ovehuq.edu.au
(www) http://www.climateshifts.org

Connections

Postdoctoral staff
Dr Selina Ward
Dr Guillermo Diaz-Pulido
Dr Simon Dunn
Dr Paulina Kaniewska
Dr Mathieu Pernice
Dr Nela Rosic
Dr Linda Tonk

Students
Dr David Kline
Mr Ayax Diaz-Ruiz
Ms Narinratana (Nong) Kongjandtre
Ms Angela Lawton
Ms Ana Redondo-Rodriguez
Mr Cameron Veal
Mr Siham Afatta
Mr Jez Roff
Mr James K.H. Fang
Ms Rachael Middlebrook
Ms Catalina Reyes-Nivia

Collaborators
Dr Scarla Weeks
Dr Cynthia Riginos

People > Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Position: Premier's fellow
Last update: 04-Jan-2013

Research

Coral Reef Ecosystems

My early fascination with the ocean led to studies at the University of Sydney (BSc Hons) and UCLA (PhD). After returning from the United States in 1992, I took academic positions at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland (2000). Over this period, I built up the Coral Reef Ecosystems group, pursuing questions from molecular to global scales. The full range of my research interests and laboratory group are detailed at this website and in my CV. I recently accepted the position of Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.

In addition to my love of science, I have been deeply motivated by the desire to communicate science effectively and to help solve the serious problems that ecosystems such as coral reefs face. In this respect I have actively collaborated with organisations such as the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Royal Society of London and World Bank, as well as advising government and business on the science and urgency associated with climate change. I have also worked extensively with the media, believing that scientists need to extend the impact of their science using the full set of communication options. This one of the primary reasons for why I maintain the active blog, www.climateshifts.org.

I am Deputy Director and Program 4 Leader of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Our research program receives considerable support from this important centre within Australian science
Keywords: acidification, bleaching, climate change, connectivity, coral disease, coral physiology, ecology, genetics, IPCC, Symbiodinium

Education

PhD Biological Sciences - University of California at Los Angeles (1989)
BSc(Hons) Marine Biology - University of Sydney (1982)

Awards

Wesley College Medal (2009), Smart State Premiers Fellowship (2008), Eureka Prize for Research (1999), Sydney University Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996), UCLA Distinguished Scholar Award (1988)

Publications

Pernice M, Meibom A, Van Den Heuvel A, Kopp C, Domart-Coulon I, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Dove S (2012) A single-cell view of ammonium assimilation in coral–dinoflagellate symbiosis. The ISME Journal - in press

Bongaerts P, Hoeksema BW, Hay KB, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2012) Mushroom corals overcome live burial through pulsed inflation. CORAL REEFS - in press

Bongaerts P, Riginos C, Hay KB, Van Oppen MJH, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Dove S (2011) Adaptive divergence in a scleractinian coral: physiological adaptation of Seriatopora hystrix to shallow and deep reef habitats. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 303-303

Bongaerts P, Sampayo EM, Bridge TCL, Ridgway T, Vermeulen F, Englebert N, Webster JM, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Symbiodinium diversity in mesophotic coral communities on the Great Barrier Reef: a first assessment. Marine Ecology Progress Series 439: 117-126

Bongaerts P, Bridge TCL, Kline DI, Muir PR, Wallace CC, Beaman RJ, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Mesophotic coral ecosystems on the walls of Coral Sea atolls. CORAL REEFS 30: 335-335

Pernice M, Dunn SR, Miard T, Dufour S, Dove S, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Regulation of Apoptotic Mediators Reveals Dynamic Responses to Thermal Stress in the Reef Building Coral Acropora millepora. PLoS One 6: 16095-16095

Mumby PJ, Iglesias-Prieto R, Hooten AJ, Sale PF, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Edwards AJ, Harvell CD, Gomez ED, Knowlton N, Hatziolos ME, Kyewalyanga MS, Muthiga N (2011) Revisiting climate thresholds and ecosystem collapse. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 9: 94-96

Levy O, Kaniewska P, Alon S, Eisenberg E, Karako-Lampert S, Bay LK, Reef R, Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Miller DJ, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Complex Diel Cycles of Gene Expression in Coral-Algal Symbiosis. SCIENCE 331: 175-175

Anthony KRN, Maynard JA, Diaz-Pulido G, Mumby PJ, Marshall PA, Cao L, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Ocean acidification and warming will lower coral reef resilience. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 17: 1798-1808

Doropoulos C, Ward S, Diaz-Pulido G, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Mumby PJ (2011) Ocean acidification reduces coral recruitment by disrupting intimate larval-algal settlement interactions.. ECOLOGY LETTERS 0: 0-0

Hoegh-Guldberg O, Ortiz JC, Dove S (2011) The future of coral reef. SCIENCE 334: 1494-1495

Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Coral reef ecosystems and anthropogenic climate change. REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 11: 215-227

Hoegh-Guldberg O, Hegerl G, Root T, Zwiers F, Stott P, Pierce D, Allen M (2011) Difficult but not impossible. Nature Climate Change 1: 72-72

Levy O, Kaniewska P, Alon S, Eisenberg E, Karako-Lampert S, Bay LK, Reef R, Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Miller DJ, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Complex Diel Cycles of Gene Expression in Coral-Algal Symbiosis. SCIENCE 331: 175-176

Mumby PJ, Iglesias-Prieto R, Hooten AJ, Sale PF, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Edwards AJ, Harvell CD, Gomez ED, Knowlton N, Hatziolos ME, Kyewalyanga MS, Muthiga N (2011) Revisiting climate thresholds and ecosystem collapse. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 9: 94-96

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