ProfessorDavid Schiel

Royal Society Marsden Panel Member (Biological Science), 2010 - 2011. Evaluated hundreds of applications for funding

Consortia membership: I am a key member ( the only one from Australasia) in the international consortium to gain deeper insight into the dynamics of marine coastal ecosystems across wide spatial and temporal scales. Includes 7 scientists from 5 Universities: B. Menge, J Lubchenco (Oregon State Univ), S Gaines (Univ of California at Santa Barbara), S Navarrete & JC Castilla (Pontificia Universidad de Católica de Chile), D Schiel, G Branch (Cape Town University) (http://intertidalweb.org/)

Conference Organising Committees: 1) Chair of Organising Committee for the 2010 NZ Marine Sciences Society Annual Conference, Christchurch, c 200 attendees. My group (the Marine Ecology research Group) ran all aspects of the conference. 2) On Organising Committee of 7th International Temperate Reef Symposium (UC Santa Barbara, 2006) 3) Overseas advisor (and after dinner speaker) on 9th International Temperate Reef Symposium (Plymouth, 2011)

Member, NZ Marine Sciences Society, 1997 onwards, and speaker at annual conference

Invited Speaker in Phycological Congress, San Diego (2000)

Invited Speaker in Ecological Society of America Conference Symposium, Savannah, Georgia

Invited Speaker, PISCO-Mellon meetings, Corvallis, Oregon, 2000

Keynote Speaker, 6th International Temperate Reef Symposium

Invited Plenary speaker: 1) “Climate change”, NZ Marine Sciences Society conference (invited as former recipient of Lifetime award), Hamilton, 2007; 2) “Resilience on marine shores” (NZMSS, Christchurch 2008); 3) “Connectivity in coastal populations” (Vth Asia-Pacific Phycological Forum, Wgn, ‘08 (2007-2008)

Invited Keynote Speaker X 3: 1) 7th International Temperate Reef Symposium (Santa Barbara 2006; “Future directions in marine science”), 2) 8th ITRS (Adelaide 2009; “Space-time continuum in ecological studies”), 3) 9th ITRS (Plymouth 2011, “Fractured connectivity”). (2006-present)

Invited keynote speaker: Asia Pacific Phycology Forum in Yeosu, Korea, October 9th-14th, 2011 on ‘Ecosystem engineers and biodiversity in a changing climate’. Declined invitation (prior commitments) but co-authored talk with Dr A Bellgrove (Deakin University). 2011

Invited keynote speaker (all expenses): SPIE (the international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light), "Remote Sensing for Island Ecosystem Management and the Diagnosis of Threats to the Global Environment", Noumea ‘08;(Declined, timing conflict) (2008)

Invited speaker: American Association of Limnology and Oceanography conference, special symposium on Multiple Stressors to Aquatic Systems, (Santa Fe, New Mexico ’10) (2010)