Professor Charlie Huveneers

Professor

College of Science and Engineering

+61 8 82012825

charlie.huveneers@flinders.edu.au

Biological Sciences (140)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Professor Charlie Huveneers is the Director of Flinders University Marine and Coastal Research Consortium and leads the Southern Shark Ecology Group (SSEG). The SSEG research focuses on the ecology and population status of sharks and rays, as well as assessments of their vulnerability, interactions with humans, and related public perception. After Charlie obtained is PhD in 2007, he started co-running the Animal Tracking Facility (ATF) of the Integrated Marine Observing System program (IMOS), during which he created a national network of acoustic receivers. He moved to South Australia in 2009 to join MISA through a joint position between SARDI – Aquatic Sciences and Flinders University where he acted as shark ecologist and lecturer between 2009-2014. He has been a full-time academic at Flinders University since, with his current research focusing on positive and negative shark-human interactions providing empirical information to minimise the effects of wildlife tourism and test the efficacy of shark bite mitigation measures.

Qualifications

2002-2007

Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
PhD in Environmental Science awarded February 2007
The ecology and biology of wobbegong sharks (genus Orectolobus) in relation to the commercial fishery in New South Wales, Australia

1999-2002

University of Southampton (England)
BSc (Hons.) Oceanography with Marine Biology

1998-1999

Maryborough State High School (Australia).

1992-1998

Saint-Boniface-Parnasse (Belgium)

Honours, awards and grants

2011, Co-author of runner-up for best poster at the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference
2011, Vice-Chancellor Early Career Research Award
2010, South Australian Young Tall Poppy Finalist
2009, Unsung Hero of the year 2009
2007, Award from the Fondation de la Vocation, Belgium, $10,000
2006, Commendation from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
2006, American Elasmobranch Society student travel award
2004, John Glover Award (Australian Society for Fish Biology student travel award)
2001, Dean's List BSc (Hons.) University of Southampton

Key responsibilities

SA-IMOS deputy node leader
AATAMS Scientific Committee member
AATAMS data Sub-committee member
AATAMS receiver pool Committee member
IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group member
Shark Resource Assessment Group Observer

Teaching interests

Biology and Ecology of Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras)
Shark conservation
Fisheries sciences
Acoustic telemetry
Behavioural ecology

Topic coordinator

BIOL3752 Fisheries Science and Management

BIOL8752 Fisheries Science and Management

BIOL2704 Biology Practicum - Marine Internship

BIOL7733 New Colombo Plan - Palau

Topic lecturer

BIOL1171 Introduction to Animal behaviour

BIOL1301 Introduction to Marine Biology

BIOL3752 Fisheries Science and Management

BIOL2106 Animal Handling and husbandry

Supervisory interests

Animal behaviour

Bioacoustics

Fisheries sustainability

Marine animals

Marine park planning

Sharks and rays, biology

Sharks, rays and chimaeras, conservation

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Marine biology & Ecology (2), Shark and ray ecology and biology (3)

Associate supervisor: Molecular biology (1), Fisheries sustainability (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Shark and ray ecology and biology (3)

Associate supervisor: Human perception of wildlife tourism (1), Shark and ray ecology and biology (3)

Higher degree by research student achievements

Holly Frazer

Winner of the OCS annual conference Student presentation - OCT 2012

Sasha Whitmarsh & Lauren Meyer

SciSc Rapid Fire Awards - SEP 2016

Matt Heard

Flinders Univeristy overseas travel scholarship - OCT 2012

Mick Drew

Commendation for the OCS annual conference Student presentation - OCT 2012

Lauren Meyer

OCS Best presentation award - SEP 2016

Sasha Whitmarsh

Science and Technology Award Channel 9 Young Achiever Awards Semi-Finalist - JUN 2017

Jessica Priess

AMSA SA student presentation award (Honours) - JUL 2017

Lauren Meyer

OCS Best presentation award - FEB 2018

Lauren Meyer

AES Gruber Award for Best Oral presentation - JUN 2018

Professional engagement

Professional and community services includes:

Editor of Scientific Reports
Invited member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Marine Science
Invited as expert to the NSW Shark Summit (2015)
Guest editor of the Shark International proceedings published in the African Journal of Marine Science (June 2014).
Reviewer for >20 scientific journals and funding agencies, including ARC, NOAA Federal funding (USA), Foundation for Science and Technology - Minister for the Educaction and Science (Portugal).
Member of the scientific advisory board for the Ministry of the Environment regarding network of marine parks, South Australia, 2009-2014
Invited as a mentor on the AMSA-South Australia branch student networking night (April 2014).
Reviewed report ‘Likely impact of Western Australian drum lining on white sharks’ requested by the Environmental Defender’s Office (Western Australia) (April 2014).
Invitation by the South Australian Science Premier to contribute to a collaborative initiative between Industry and Scientists due to being identified as an efficient science communicator (February 2014).
Featured in ‘72 and Rising’.
Invited as shark expert to present at Palau Shark Week (March 2012).
Provide expert advice to PIRSA identifying shark teeth for State prosecution.
Popular articles to 14 different magazines and non-governmental agencies (e.g., Nature Conservation Council and Council Conservation of South Australia), for which I won the public prize award for one of them.
Public talks to audiences such as scuba-diving clubs, high school students, Rotary clubs, and aquarium visitors.
Regular interviews to magazine, radio, and television nationally (e.g, ABC radio and television, Channel 7, 9, and 10, the Manly Daily, The Age, The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, The Advertiser), and internationally (i.e, Canada, Italy, Hawaii, England, Belgium).
Featured in various documentaries (e.g., 700 Sharks in the Night)