David Booth
David Booth is Professor of Marine Ecology at UTS and Research Associate at Sydney Institute of Marine Science. He has published over 200 papers in reef-fish ecology, climate change and other anthropogenic impacts on fishes and fisheries, in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Great Barrier Reef, NSW coast, and studies how tropical fish travel down the East Australian Current past Sydney under climate change. He and his team researches fishes in estuaries around Sydney, the ecology and behaviour of threatened fishes such as seadragons and Whites seahorses black cod and white sharks, and the ecology of the deep sea. He also researches the impacts and values of artificial reefs, from small reef enhancements in Sydney Harbour to global offshore oil and gas structures, and importance of marine protection. He is a member of IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish and Seadragon Specialist Group (global Seadragon focus person) and on the Expert Advisory Panel for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize.

Presented as part of Big Blue Ideas
Who owns the ocean?
Thursday 15 May | 6.30pm
Marine Protected Areas – the national parks of the sea - promise to save our oceans, but do they work?
Are they protecting marine life or just drawing lines on a map? Some say they are our best hope for ocean recovery. Others argue they’re just too difficult to enforce and threaten livelihoods.
What are they, who do they serve and what could they become?
Australian National Maritime Museum