Carden Crea Wallace AM (fl. 1970–) is an Australian scientist who was the curator/director of the Museum of Tropical Queensland from 1987 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.
Carden Wallace | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | University of Queensland |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Known for | Research on corals |
| Children | 2 |
Life
editCarden 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
editIn 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
edit- ^ a b c d Smith, Alie (23 April 2003). "Wallace, Carden". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ "Judges and Awards Biography – Carden Wallace PhD". Ocean Geographic Society. Archived from the original on 16 August 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b History, Museum of Tropical Queensland. Retrieved 16 August 2015
- ^ "Editorial Board". OGSociety. OceanNEnvironment. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ^ "Acropora hoeksemai Wallace, 1997". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- ^ "Acropora batunai Wallace, 1997". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ^ Queensland Museum Annual Report 1999-2000. Retrieved 13 August 2015
- ^ Wallace, Carden (1999). Staghorn Corals of the World: A Revision of the Genus Acropora. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 0643102817.
- ^ Queensland Museum Annual Report 2002-2003. Retrieved 13 August 2015
- ^ Zoe T. Richards; Maria Beger; Silvia Pinca; 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
- ^ Carden C. Wallace; 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. hdl:11380/1071886. S2CID 128879139.
- ^ Carden Wallace PhD, Ocean Geographic Society. Retrieved 13 August 2015