Dr Eric Wolanski, FTSE, FIE Aust

Research Interests

• Estuarine, coastal and reef oceanography– and its modelling

• Mangrove, saltmarshes, and coral reef ecohydrology – and its modelling

Recent and Current Projects Include

• GBR oceanography modelling

• Modelling coral and reef fish oceanography in Guam, Palau and GBR

• Land-use/coral reef links through ecohydrology modelling in GBR, Guam, Hawaii and Palau

• Palau jellyfish lake eco-hydrology modelling

• East African savannah ecohydrology modelling (Serengeti, Ruaha, Katavi, Lake Manyara and Saadani national parks).

• Scientific Steering Committees of LOICZ and EMECS.

• Chief Editor:
  Wetlands Ecology and Management
  Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
  Treatise of Estuarine and Shelf Science

Recently and Currently Supervised Projects

• Would like to develop projects with biologists and students in the department, dealing with incorporating bio-physical links in coastal and GBR ecosystem studies leading to modelling

Future PhD Directions

• Happy to help if students want to explore bio-physical links

Selected Publications

360 publications, including nineteen books.

Wolanski, E. (1994). Physical oceanography processes of the Great Barrier Reef.CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 194 pp.

Wolanski, E. (2001). Mangroven - Lebensraume zwischen Land und Meer.Filander Press, Furth, Germany, 205 pp.

Wolanski, E. (2001). Oceanographic processes of coral reefs: Physical and biological links in the Great Barrier Reef, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 356 pp.

Wolanski, E. (2006). The environment in Asia Pacific harbours, Springer, Dordrecht, 497 pp.

Mazda, Y., Wolanski, E., Ridd, P.V. (2007).The role of physical processes in mangrove environments.A manual for the preservation and conservation of mangrove ecosystems. Terrapub, Tokyo, 593 pp.

Wolanski, E. (2007). Estuarine Ecohydrology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 157 pp.

Perillo, G.M.E., Wolanski, E., Cahoon, D, Brinson, M. (2009). Coastal Wetlands. An Integrated Ecosystem Approach. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 941 pp.

Wolanski, E.,McLusky, D. (Chief editors).(2011). Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science.12 Volumes. Elsevier, Amsterdam

Recent GBR oceanography papers:

Bohensky, E., J. Butler, Costanza, R. Bohnet, I. Delisle,A. Fabricius, K., Gooch, M. Kubiszewski, I., Lukacs, G., Pert, P. and E. Wolanski. (2011). Future makers or future takers? A scenario analysis of climate change and the Great Barrier Reef. Global Environmental Change 21, 876-893.

Andutta, F, Ridd, P.V., Wolanski, E. (2011). Dynamics of hypersaline coastal waters in the Great Barrier Reef. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 94, 299-305.

Andutta, F., Kingsford, M., Wolanski, E. (2012).‘Sticky water’ enables the retention of larvae in a reef mosaic. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 101, 54-63.