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14 Sponges of the New Caledonian Lagoon John Hooper is Senior Curator of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. He commenced studies on sponges in 1981, working firstly in the northwestern Australian region, subsequently in various parts of southeast Asia, Micronesia, southwest Pacific islands and more recently along the length of the east coast of Australia. He is currently attempting to comprehensively document the northeastern Australian tropical and subtropical sponge faunas in collaboration with commercial pharmaceutical interests, and in orchestrating a publication project to make sponge taxonomy available to the non-specialist community. His main research interests concern the exploration of (prospecting fOr) sponge biodiversity, particularly the coral reef and inter-reef faunas; documenting the heterogeneity in sponge distribution patterns throughout tropical Australasia; tinkering with ideas about the biogeography of sponges throughout the Indo-west Pacific; and publishing on the systematics of the orders Poecilosclerida, Axinellida and Halichondrida in particular. Michelle Kelly-Borges is a Senior Scientist at UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, and is also currently a consultant to the Coral Reef Research Foundation in Micronesia. Her main research interests lie in the reproductive and benthic ecology of common reef sponges, the molecular, morphological and biochemical systematics of tetractinomorph sponges, especially the desma-bearing "lithistid" families, and sponge genome structure and characterisation. She has extensive field experience in sponge populations from both the Caribbean and northwest and southwest Pacific island regions, and is presently involved in the establishment of a commercial bath-sponge aquaculture industry in Micronesia. Claude Levi is a membre correspondant of the French Academy of Sciences. He was Director of the Laboratory of Biology of Marine Invertebrates, Museum national d'histoire naturelle, paris, France. He has mainly studied development, metamorphosis, normal and experimental morphogenesis and taxonomy of tropical and bathyal sponges. Jean Vacelet is Director of Research CNRS at the Centre of Oceanology of Marseille (Station Marine d'Endoume), University of the Mediterranean, Marseille. He has studied the taxonomy, biology and ecology of sponges in the Mediterranean and various tropical seas, including extensive field observations, since 1956. His main interests are in sponge reproduction, cytology, skeletogenesis, symbiosis with micro-organisms, the fauna of submarine caves, and exploitation of commercial sponges (including pathology and culture), and in particular studying recent hypercalcified sponges ('sclerosponges'), relicts of the once Widespread main Mesozoic and palaeozoic reef builders (sphinctozoans, stromatoporoids, chaetetids).
Clive WiIkinson is Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville. His research has focused on the ecology and physiology of coral reef sponges on the Great Barrier Reef and how populations compare with other coral reef regions. Specific themes are on determining the role of symbiotic algae that occur within many coral reef sponges and how reefs are affected by pollution. Clive's current interests include reef disturbance pattems and processes. 15 Author profiles
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