Education
- PhD ‘Reproductive Ecology of Deep-Water Scleractinians (2003), Southampton Oceanography Centre, Thesis supervisors, Paul Tyler and John Gage
- BSc (hons) Marine and Freshwater Biology (2000), University of Wales, Aberystwyth
- A-Levels (1996) – Biology, Chemistry, Food and Nutrition, General Studies
- GCSE (1994) – English Literature, English Language, French, Latin, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography, Food and Nutrition.
Awards
- Ocean Life and Ocean Climate Change Postdoctoral Fellow – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, January 2005 – January 2006
- AGU 2002 Fall Meeting, San Francisco – Outstanding Student Paper Award
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Southampton Oceanography Centre, Exchange Program, 2002
- Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer Award, 2000 (Merit), 2001 (Runner Up), 2002 (Runner Up), 2003 (Finalist)
- European Union PhD Studentship under ‘Atlantic Coral Ecosystem Study’ 2000-2003
Experience
July-August 2004 (3 Weeks), Collaborating Scientist, working on the reproduction of Lophelia pertusa collected from exposed and clean sites around North Sea Oil Rigs. Teaching students histological techniques.
March 2004 – December 2004, Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – working on the reproduction of deep-water Hawaiian octocorals as part of a NOAA OE grant awarded to Dr Amy Baco-Taylor
November 2003 – January 2004, Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
June – September 2002, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Exchange Program (funded by Southampton Oceanography Centre), USA. Working with Dr Tim Shank and Dr Dan Fornari on the deep water fauna found around the Galapágos Islands. Learning genetic (Extraction, PCR) techniques on ophiuroids and holothurians.
January - February 2002 (5 Weeks), lab work at School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, USA. Collecting and preparing for transport, Antarctic corals and anemones from Dr Craig Smith.
February 2001 (1 Week), lab work at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Scotland. Collecting corals from storehouse for reproductive studies, under supervision of Dr Murray Roberts and Prof. John Gage
Research Expeditions
- February 2004 (4 weeks), RV Atlantis (AT11_7), East Pacific Rise – Hydrothermal Vents
- May – June 2003 (4 weeks), RV Atlantis (AT7_35), New England Seamounts – Deep-Sea Corals - Alvin Dives 3885 (stbd), 3892 (port)
- September – October 2002 (5 weeks), RRS Discovery (266), NE Atlantic – Deep-Sea Corals
- June 2002 (10 days) RV Atlantis (AT7_13), Galapágos Rift – Hydrothermal Vents - Alvin Dive 3794 (stbd)
- May 2002 (10 days), RV Atlantis (AT7_12), East Pacific Rise – Hydrothermal Vents
- March 2002 (3 weeks), RRS Discovery (260), NE Atlantic – Deep-Sea Corals
- August – September 2001 (5 weeks), RV Roger Revelle (DRIFT Leg 4), Galapágos Islands – Deep-Sea Fauna
- August – September 2000 (5 weeks), RRS Charles Darwin (128), NE Atlantic and North Sea – Deep-Sea Corals
- July – August 2000 (5 weeks), RRS Discovery (248), ACES, NE Atlantic – Deep-Sea Corals
Invited Talks
The Ecology of Cold Water Corals from Across the Globe. Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory - 2004
Corals off Britain? The Ecology of Europe’s Deep-Water Corals. Plymouth University, Guest Lecture Series, 2004
The Reproductive Ecology of Two Deep-Sea Reef Building Corals from the NE Atlantic Ocean. 2nd International Deep-Sea Coral Symposium, Erlangen Germany, September 2003
Abstracts
Waller, RG; Tyler, PA and Gage JD – Sexual reproduction in three species of Caryophyllia from the NE Atlantic ocean. 2nd Deep Sea Coral Symposium 2003, Erlangen, Germany
Waller, RG and Tyler, PA – The reproductive ecology of two reef building scleractinians from the NE Atlantic Ocean – Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata. 2nd Deep Sea Coral Symposium 2003, Erlangen, Germany
Waller, RG; Shank, TM; Fornari, DJ; Kurz, M and Pomponi, S – The deep water fauna of the Galapagos archipelago. 10th Deep Sea Biology Symposium 2003, Oregon, USA
Waller, RG and Tyler, PA – The reproductive ecology of two reef building scleractinians from the NE Atlantic ocean. 10th Deep Sea Biology Symposium 2003, Oregon, USA
Shank, TM; Hammond, S; Fornari, DJ; Waller, RG; Ding, K; Seyfried, W; Butterfield, D; Lilley, MD and Perfit, M - Time-Series Exploration and Biological, Geological, and Geochemical Characterization of the Rosebud and Calyfield Hydrothermal Vent Fields at 86°W and 89.5°W on the Galapagos Rift. EOS Trans 83(47), T11C-1257, 2002
Waller, RG; Shank, TM; Buckman, KL and Pomponi SA – A new species of Demospongiae from the Calyfield vent site on the Galapagos Rift. EOS Trans 83(47), T11C-1258, 2002
Waller, RG; Tyler, PA and Smith, C – Preliminary findings of the reproductive processes of deep-water actinarians from the western Antarctic shelf. EOS Trans AGU 83(4), Ocean Sciences Suppl., OS42-E-153, 2002
Committees
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) – Study Group on Cold Water Corals (SGCOR) – 2004 -
Teaching Experience
University - MSc Project Supervision
Hannah Flint (2003) – “Reproductive ecology of the deep sea scleractinian Fungiacyathus marenzelleri from the Pacific Ocean”
Kathryn Johnson (2003) – “Reproduction of deep-sea Antarctic Actinarians”
University –Practical Demonstrating
OA107 – IT, Communication, Field and Laboratory Skills
OA115 – Marine Plants and Animals
OA220 – Marine Invertebrates
OA318, OA418 – Larval Development and Zooplankton Ecology
Primary School
Summer 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 –Two, one week ‘Dyslexia Summer School’ courses at Monkton Combe Junior School, Bath, and Pinewood School, Swindon. 25-30 special needs children, aiding three teachers in english, maths and art and taking break time recreation
Sept. 1996 – July 1997 – Teaching Assistant, Monkton Combe Junior School, Combe Down, Bath. Part of the ‘Special Needs’ department (aiding teaching foreign and dyslexic children english, science, technology and geography), with boarding duties and sports teaching
Royal Institute of Biology, UK (2000- )
International Society for Reef Studies (2001- )
American Geophysical Union (2000 -)
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