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Simon Mustoe is a marine wildlife guide, writer and advisor to conservation groups, governments and industry. Simon is Director of AES Applied Ecology Solutions and Wildiaries. He leads the Coral Sea expedition and led the first trip to the Coral Sea in 2006. He is a passionate photographer with a particular love of marine mammals and seabirds. | |
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John Rumney is founder and former manager of the adventure dive and scientific research vessel Undersea Explorer, now director of Eye to Eye Marine Encounters. After over 30 years diving and learning about this environment, John has become first-hand witnesses to the negative impacts of human activities and climate change. This motivated John to embark on a new career, with the primary goal to protect the sea. John has since belonged to many different conservation projects and councils, consulted for Climate Change panels, and worked alongside and featured in many environmental TV programs and documentaries (including the Discovery Channel, VOX TV, National Geographic, ZDF, Stern, Channel 10 news, and 60 minutes).He brings his interpretive and photographic skills, comprehensive ecological knowledge, nautical expertise, and contagious enthusiasm to our project. | |
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Dave Donnelly is the expeditions’ Dive Master. He has over 8 years experience working in the aquarium industry where he specialised in the management of captive sharks and marine turtles. Most recently he has been working in the wildlife film industry assisting in the production of films such as ‘Dolphins and Whales 3D’ for the IMAX screen and the soon to be released ‘Oceans’ for Disneynature. He is also an experienced marine biologist and research assistant specialising in cetaceans and is currently employed by the Dolphin Research Institute www.dolphinresearch.org.au and various universities in this role. He has also appeared on television on numerous occasions, featuring on productions such as ‘Ocean Zoo’ and ‘Totally Wild’ focusing on the conservation of all marine life, from blue whales to octopus. | |
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Dr Matt Edmunds is Professional diver, consultant and highly qualified marine ecologist. He is Director of Australian Marine Ecology and also a Sports Diver with ‘Gold Medals’ in Australian and Commonwealth countries fin-swimming championships. He has substantial experience in underwater sampling techniques including visual censuses, underwater photography, sediment sampling, phytoplankton and biological collections. | |
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David Hannan is a cinematographer and producer who has won international acclaim for his tropical and temperate marine images. His now classic underwater music video Coral Sea Dreaming released in 1992 has screened in over 60 countries and remains the best-selling Natural History program ever produced and marketed from Australia. Since then, David has produced, co-produced and filmed many other TV Documentaries and Musical Videos. Along the way, he won an Emmy Award for his Cinematography on Palau – Paradise of the Pacific part of the Living Edens Series in 1999. David is currently rolling out his latest HD project Coral Sea Dreaming – Awaken and also exploring exciting new ways of seeing his imagery as ‘Virtual Decor’. | |
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Nicola Temple is a marine biologist working for the Australian Marine Conservation Society on a visionary campaign to establish the world’s largest marine park in the Coral Sea. Prior to coming to Australia, Nicola worked on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada in remote locations researching wild Pacific salmon and had the privilege of working among grizzly and black bears and grey wolves. She was profiled in the book Conflicts over Natural Resources by J. Vaughn and has been a guest lecturer and specialist instructor at the University of Victoria and earned the Andy Farquharson Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching. |
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Anissa Lawrence has over 18 years experience managing people, projects and businesses, developing, implementing and communicating sustainable, workable solutions to environmental problems for coastal and marine natural resources and fisheries. She was CEO for OceanWatch Australia for 5 years, developing and leading education, communication and social marketing projects in coastal and marine conservation with the seafood industry the Australian fishing industry. In 2007 she became a Churchill Fellow looking at how other countries are engaging the fishing industry in ecosystem based management and marine spatial planning. She has also held senior positions in a number of international consulting and professional services firms for environmental, business, operational and technological risk management, and strategic planning and management |
