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Terry Hughes is a 64-year-old Irish biologist who was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1956. He is best known for his work on coral reef ecology and for his role in the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network. He is currently a professor at James Cook University in Australia and the director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
Hughes earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1978 and his PhD from the University of Wales in 1983. He has held various positions in the scientific community, including a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a research fellowship at the University of Queensland.
Hughes has published numerous scientific papers and books on coral reef ecology and has been awarded numerous awards for his work, including the Australian Academy of Science's Macfarlane Burnet Medal in 2006 and the International Society for Reef Studies' Darwin Medal in 2011.
Hughes is married to fellow biologist Dr. Maria Byrne and they have two children. His net worth is not publicly available.
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In 2001, Hughes was elected to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science for his contribution to coral reef science. He has been awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia for his services to Australian society and marine biology, a Silver Jubilee Award for Excellence by the Australian Marine Science Association, the Australian Museum Eureka Sherman Prize for Environmental Science, a 2012 Australian Laureate Fellowship, and the prestigious Darwin Medal by the International Society for Reef Studies. In 2014, he was awarded an Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Hughes was joint winner of the 2018 John Maddox Prize, awarded by Nature and Sense about Science. In 2018, Hughes was also awarded the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences and the Climate Change Award from the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. In 2019, Trinity College Dublin awarded him with an honorary doctorate.
Hughes was awarded a PhD in Ecology and Evolution from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, in 1984, for his groundbreaking research on coral life histories, phase-shifts and the resilience of Caribbean coral reefs. Following his PhD, he was an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1984-1990) before moving to James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. He was appointed Professor in 2000 and established the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies in 2005. Hughes has published in excess of 140 peer reviewed publications, so far. His work receives extensive media coverage and he actively communicates his findings to a broader audience through popular articles, radio and television. Under the direction of Hughes, the ARC Centre has grown to become the world's foremost authority on coral reef science and is a hub for world-leading research and graduate training. The ARC Centre produces greater than 350 publications annually and was recently awarded further funding until 2021.
Terry Hughes (born 1956, in Dublin, Ireland) is a professor of marine biology at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. He is well known for research on the global coral bleaching event caused by climate change. Nature dubbed him "Reef sentinel" in 2016 for the global role he plays in applying multi-disciplinary science to securing reef sustainability. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. His research interests encompass coral reef ecology, macroecology and evolution, as well as social-ecological interactions. His recent work has focused on marine ecology, macroecology, climate change, identifying safe planetary boundaries for human development, and on transformative governance of the sea in Australia, Chile, China, the Galapagos Islands, Gulf of Maine and the Coral Triangle. His career citations in Google Scholar exceed 57,000.
