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Hewitt
Chad L. Hewitt
Australian Maritime College
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Chad Hewitt is Professor
and Director of the National Centre for Marine & Coastal
Conservation, a new department of the Australian Maritime College.
Prior to returning to academia in 2005, Chad had experience
as a senior official for the New Zealand government responsible
for the science, regulation and management of marine bioinvasions
and as a senior researcher leading at the CSIRO Centre for Research
on Introduced Marine Pests (CRIMP) in Tasmania. His background
in the field of marine bio-invasions extends over a period of
20 years with an interest in the underlying theories and their
application to management outcomes. His Ph.D. is from the University
of Oregon in the Ecology of Marine Biological Invasions under
the supervision of Dr. Jim Carlton. Chad coordinates the Marine
Invasive Species Specialist Group of the IUCN, and actively
researches the biogeography of invasions, with a Ph.D. student
working on Southern Ocean invasions. |
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