Carden Wallace

Carden Wallace
Nationality Australian
Education University of Queensland
Occupation Scientist
Known for Research on corals
Children 2

Carden Wallace (fl. 1970–) is an Australian scientist who was the director of the Museum of Tropical Queensland from 1997 to 2003. She is an expert on corals having written a "revision of the Genus Acropora". Wallace was part of a team that discovered mass spawning of coral in 1984.

Life

Carden C. Wallace graduated with a first class degree in Science from the University of Queensland in 1970.[1] She gave birth to two sons in the 1970s.[2] From 1970 to 1976 she was the curator of lower vertebrates at the Queensland Museum. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1979 at the University of Queensland.[1] Wallace spent a brief period researching at the Australian Institute of Marine Science before researching Marine Biology from 1980 as a fellow at the James Cook University of North Queensland.[1]

In 1984 Wallace and six others first reported that corals took part in mass spawning which they observed on the Great Barrier Reef in October/November.[3][4] Since they first observed reproductive synchrony in coral in Australia it has been observed in other countries, but at different times of the year.[5] As a result, the team from James Cook University were awarded the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research in 1992.[6] This example of creatures synchronising their reproduction was novel and it was reported widely.[7]

Museum of Tropical Queensland

In 1987, the North Queensland Branch of the Queensland Museum was under the direction of 'Curator-in-Charge' Carden Wallace.[6] Whilst still at the museum she was credited with first describing a number of corals including Acropora hoeksemai[8] and Acropora batunai in 1997.[9]

Wallace was named Director of the Museum of Tropical Queensland in 1997.[1] Its new building was opened in June 2000 by the Queensland Premier Peter Beattie.[10] In 1999 Wallace published an important work on corals titled "Staghorn Corals of the World: A Revision of the Genus Acropora". This was the first study in over a century of the genus Acropora and it included a full description of each sub-species.[11]

Sally Lewis took over as director of the Queensland Tropical Museum in 2003.[12] In 2008 Wallace and others reported on the recovery of bio-diversity following the atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll. The team reported that there had been some recovery but 28 types of coral were extinct.[13] In 2014 she described several new species including Acropora macrocalyx.[14] Wallace is a member of the board of OceanNEnvironment. When the Ocean Geographic Society ran a photographic competition in 2014. the award for seascapes was called the Carden Wallace award.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Smith, Alie (23 April 2003). "Wallace, Carden". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Judges and Awards Biography – Carden Wallace PhD". Ocean Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 16 August 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Harrison, P.L., Babcock, R.C., Bull, G.D., Oliver, J.K., Wallace, C.C., Willis, B.L., 1984. Mass Spawning in Tropical Reef Corals, Science 223, issue 4641, pp. 1186–1189 doi:10.1126/science.223.4641.1186
  4. ↑ Babcock, R.C., Bull, G.D., Harrison, P.L., Heyward A.J., Oliver, J.K., Wallace, C.C., Willis, B.L. 1986. Synchronous spawnings of 105 scleractinian coral species on the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Biology 90, issue 3, pp. 379–394. doi:10.1007/BF00428562
  5. ↑ John Edward Norwood Veron (1 January 1995). Corals in Space and Time: The Biogeography and Evolution of the Scleractinia. Cornell University Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 0-8014-8263-1.
  6. 1 2 History, Museum of Tropical Queensland. Retrieved 16 August 2015
  7. ↑ "Editorial Board". OGSociety. OceanNEnvironment. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Acropora hoeksemai Wallace, 1997". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Acropora batunai Wallace, 1997". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  10. ↑ Queensland Museum Annual Report 1999-2000. Retrieved 13 August 2015
  11. ↑ Wallace, Carden (1999). Staghorn Corals of the World: A Revision of the Genus Acropora. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 0643102817.
  12. ↑ Queensland Museum Annual Report 2002-2003. Retrieved 13 August 2015
  13. ↑ Zoe T. Richards, Maria Beger, Silvia Pinca, and Carden C. Wallace (2008). "Bikini Atoll coral biodiversity resilience five decades after nuclear testing" (PDF). Marine Pollution Bulletin 56 (3): 503–515. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.11.018. PMID 18187160. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  14. ↑ Carden C. Wallace and Francesca R. Bosellini (2014). "Acropora (Scleractinia) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe: species longevity, origination and turnover following the Eocene–Oligocene transition". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 (6): 447–469. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.930525.
  15. ↑ Carden Wallace PhD, Ocean Geographic Society. Retrieved 13 August 2015
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