ADDRESS:

Dept of Ecosystem Management Telephone: (067) 73 3001

University of New England Fax: (067) 73 2769

ARMIDALE. NSW. 2351 Email: dbrunckh@metz.une.edu.au

DATE OF BIRTH:

20 March, 1962, Brisbane Qld.

QUALIFICATIONS:

B.Sc. (zoology), Dip. Comp., M.Sc. (qual.), PhD. (zoology)

University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld.

AWARDS:

Ron Kenny Prize, Australian Marine Science Association, 1987.

The Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Ethel Mary Read Award 1989.

Hawaiian Malacological Society Award, 1988.

Hawaiian Malacological Society Award, 1989.

The Keith Sutherland Award (The Australian Museum), 1988.

The Keith Sutherland Award (The Australian Museum), 1989.

The Australian Museum Research Fellow Award, 1989.

Hon. Fellow, Australian Institute of Biologists, 1993.

UNESCO Visiting Fellow to ANU 1996-97.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1996 - University of New England

1990-1996 Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Canberra ACT

1987-1989 University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld

1983-1987 Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Qld

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS:

Coastal and Marine: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM); marine and coastal protected areas (MACPAs), and biosphere reserves, conservationin small island states; seascape ecology, marine environmental and resource policy, Integrated planning across coastal-marine interface (bioregional approaches); tropical marine benthic ecology; systematics, phylogeny, biogeography and chemo-ecology of phyllidiid nudibranchs.

Terrestrial landscapes: Landscape ecology and conservation biology, regional conservation reserve systems planning and management; natural resource policy, development of public policy for management of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity; development of public-private collaborative approaches to sustainable resource management; ecologically restorative industries; sustainable land use and management, and integration of conservation and sustainable resource use and management (Ecologically Sustainable Development - ESD) ; Bioregional planning and management; UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Program; environmental policy and ethics; institutional impediments to ecosystem management; facilitation of institutional and social transformations for sustainability.

TEACHING:

Senior Lecturer, teaches Natural Resource Policy and Administration.

Research Diving

FUNDING AND MANAGEMENT:

Set up National Reserves System Program ($16m)

Facilitated public-private funding for Bookmark Biosphere Reserve Project (>$1.5m).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Currently visiting UNESCO Fellow to ANU

Chair, Science Network, UNESCO National Commission

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Working Group

Natural Areas Association (USA)

IUCN SSC Restoration Specialists Group

Nature and Society Forum

Coast and Wetlands Society

Australian Marine Science Association

The Malacological Society, London.

PUBLICATION SUMMARY:

> 30 scientific papers, one monograph, several popular science articles, book in preparation with University of Chicago Press, several government reports, reviews and briefing papers of various size/content, 2 Federal Parliamentary Inquiry reports