Daniela M. Ceccarelli
Dr. Dani Ceccarelli is a marine ecologist with extensive training and experience in tropical marine ecosystems, specializing in field surveys of coral reef fishes and invertebrates. Originally half Swiss and half Italian, and having grown up between Europe and the Middle East, she completed a PhD in coral reef ecology at James Cook University in 2004. Her underwater research has taken her to Tonga, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, the Great Barrier Reef, Papua New Guinea, and to remote reefs of northwest WA and the Coral Sea, where she has worked closely with local communities, management agencies and fellow scientists. From 2010 to 2021 she worked as an independent consultant for government, NGOs, industry, education and research institutions, on diverse projects requiring field surveys, monitoring programs, data analysis, reporting, teaching, literature reviews and management recommendations. Her research and review projects have included studies on coral reef fish and invertebrates, seagrass beds and mangroves, and have required field identification skills for fishes, benthic organisms and invertebrates, and an in-depth understanding of topics such as commercial shipping impacts, the effects of marine debris, the importance of apex predators, and the physical and biological attributes of large marine regions such as the Coral Sea, and the science of marine reserves. She currently leads the Fish Ecologist team on the Long Term Monitoring Program at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. She has also raised three boys to adulthood, has taught yoga for 25 years and sings in the Aquapella World Music Choir.
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