Contact details

Prof. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Centre for Marine Studies
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 Guillermo Diaz-Pulido
Dr Simon Dunn
Dr Selina Ward
Dr Paulina Kaniewska
Dr Mathieu Pernice
Dr Nela Rosic
Dr Linda Tonk

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

Collaborators
Dr Scarla Weeks
Dr Cynthia Riginos

People > Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

Position: Premier's fellow
Last update: 22-Jun-2010

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.
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

Veal CJ, Holmes G, Nunez M, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Osborn J (2010) A comparative study of methods for surface area and three-dimensional shape measurement of coral skeletons. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 8: 241-253

Veal CJ, Carmi M, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) Increasing the accuracy of surface area estimation using single wax dipping of coral fragments. CORAL REEFS - in press

Kvennefors ECE, Sampayo EM, Ridgway T, Barnes AC, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) Bacterial Communities of Two Ubiquitous Great Barrier Reef Corals Reveals Both Site- and Species-Specificity of Common Bacterial Associates. PLoS One 5: 10401-10401

Middlebrook R, Anthony KRN, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Dove S (2010) Heating rate and symbiont productivity are key factors determining thermal stress in the reef-building coral Acropora formosa. 213: 1026-1034

Rosic N, Pernice M, Dunn SR, Dove S, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) Novel cytochrome P450 genes from the symbiotic dinoflagellates of reef-building corals: Differential regulation by heat stress. APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 1: 1-1

Bongaerts P, Ridgway T, Sampayo EM, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) Assessing the ‘deep reef refugia’ hypothesis: focus on Caribbean reefs. CORAL REEFS 29: 309-327

Kongjandtre N, Ridgway T, Ward S, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) Broadcast spawning patterns of Favia species on the inshore reefs of Thailand. CORAL REEFS 29: 227-234

Diaz-Pulido GA, Harii S, Mccook LJ, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2010) The impact of benthic algae on the settlement of a reef-building coral. CORAL REEFS 29: 203-208

Siboni N, Rasoulouniriana D, Ben-Dov E, Kramarsky-Winter E, Sivan A, Loya Y, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Kushmaro A (2010) Stramenopile Microorganisms Associated with the Massive Coral Favia sp.. JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY 57: 236-244

Diaz-Pulido GA, Mccook LJ, Dove S, Berkelmans R, Roff G, Kline DI, Weeks SJ, Evans RD, Williamson DH, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2009) Doom and Boom on a Resilient Reef: Climate Change, Algal Overgrowth and Coral Recovery. PLoS One 4: 5239--1

Rosic N, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2009) A method for extracting a high-quality RNA from Symbiodinium sp.. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY 1: 1-8

Ainsworth TD, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2009) Bacterial communities closely associated with coral tissues vary under experimental and natural reef conditions and thermal stress. AQUATIC BIOLOGY 4: 289-296

Fitt WK, Gates RD, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Bythell JC, Jatkar A, Grottoli AG, Gomez M, Fisher P, Lajuenesse TC, Pantos O, Iglesias-Prieto R, Franklin DJ, Rodrigues LJ, Torregiani JM, van Woesik R, Lesser MP (2009) Response of two species of Indo-Pacific corals, Porites cylindrica and Stylophora pistillata, to short-term thermal stress: The host does matter in determining the tolerance of corals to bleaching. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY 373: 102-110

Morton SR, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Lindenmayer DB, Olson MH, Hughes L, McCulloch MT, McIntyre S, Nix HA, Prober SM, Saunders DA, Andersen AN, Burgman MA, Lefroy EC, Lonsdale WM, Lowe I, McMichael AJ, Parslow JS, Steffen W, Williams JE, Woinarski JCZ (2009) The big ecological questions inhibiting effective environmental management in Australia. AUSTRAL ECOLOGY 34: 1-9

Kaniewska P, Campbell PR, Fine M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2009) Phototropic growth in a reef flat acroporid branching coral species. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 212: 662-667

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