Eric Wolanski
Water Quality scientist
Email: eric.wolanski@jcu.edu.au
Phone: 07 4781 6541
Location: DB19 111
Dr. Eric Wolanski, PhD, DSc, FTSE, FIE Aust, is a coastal oceanographer and environmental engineer.
His research interests start from the oceanography and sediment dynamics of coral reefs, mangroves, and muddy estuaries. They also include the interaction between physical and biological processes determining the ecosystem health in tropical riverine, estuarine and waters. Eric is leading the UNESCO-ROSTE estuarine ecohydrology modelling effort to quantify the impact from farming, dams, irrigation and urbanisation on on the ecological services that estuaries provide to humanity. The ecohydrology models that have resulted have been applied to assess the human impact on coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef, Darwin Harbour, coastal waters of Micronesia,and savanah ecosystems such as the Serengeti and Ruaha in Tanzania.
Eric has more than 300 publications including six books. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia, and l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal for services in estuarine and coastal oceanography, a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Catholic University of Louvain, and a Queensland Information Technology and Telecommunication award for excellence.
Eric is the chief editor of Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science and Wetlands Ecology and Management. He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Coastal Research, Journal of Marine Systems, and Continental Shelf Research. He is a member of the Scientific and Policy Committee of the Japan's-based International Center for Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas. He is an Erasmus Mundus scholar. He is listed in Australia's Who's Who.
