Curriculum Vitae: Dr Fred E Wells

Curriculum vitae: Dr Fred E Wells

23 Oct 01

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal:

Name: Fred Ethan Wells

Date of birth: 10 February 1946

Place of birth: Ancon, Panama Canal Zone

Citizenships: Australian and Canadian

Marital Status: Married, 2 children: daughter born 1980, son born 1983

Hobbies: Baseball, jogging, cooking

Addresses: Work: Western Australian Museum, Perth 6000, Western Australia

Phone: (08) 9427 2809, Fax: (08) 9427 2882

Email:

Home: 33 Shann Street, Floreat, Western Australia 6014. Phone: (08) 9387 7124

Fax: (08) 9284 0327

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Education:

Canal Zone College, Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 1964-65

University of Miami, Summer 1966

BSc Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio 1965-68

MSc Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 1968-69.

Thesis title: An ecological study of two sympatric species of Fasciolaria (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Alligator Harbor, Florida. Supervisor: Dr. C.R. Stasek

PhD McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1969-74.

Thesis title: Biology and ecology of thecosomatous pteropods off Barbados, West Indies. Supervisor: Dr. C.M. Lalli

Scholarships and Fellowships:

National Science Foundation Graduate Traineeship, Florida State University, 1968-69.

National Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship, McGill University, 1972-74

National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 1974-75

Christensen Research Institute Fellowship, Madang, Papua New Guinea, 1987

Management Placement Programme, Western Australian Public Service Commission. Seconded to D.A. Lord & Associates, Environmental Consultants, 1995.

Work experience:

Senior Curator, Department of Aquatic Invertebrates, Western Australian Museum, 1976 to November 1996 and November 1998 to present. Appointed as Curator, Grade 2 in 1976, promoted to Curator, Grade 1 in January 1980, and Senior Curator in January 1988.

Administrative Head, Department of Aquatic Zoology, Western Australian Museum, 1993-1994; 1999-present. Previously Head, Dept. of Malacology but was appointed Head of the Dept. of Aquatic Invertebrates, formed by the amalgamation of the Departments of Malacology, Carcinology and Marine Invertebrate Zoology in 1988, and remained head until 1991. Previously Head, Dept. of Malacology from 1977 to 1988.

Senior Consultant, Marine Ecology, LeProvost Dames & Moore, November 1996 to November 1998.

Principal, Enzer Marine Environmental Consulting, June 1997 to present. (I have the right of private practice in my own time).

Research and travel grants:

Faculty of Graduate Studies, McGill University; Arctic Institute of North America; Research Development Fund, Dalhousie University (2 grants); Western Australian Department of Conservation and Environment (3 grants, one of which was for 3 years); Western Society of Naturalists; University of Hong Kong (2); Science and Industry Endowment Fund, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; Western Australian Fisheries Department (2 grants, 1 for three years and 1 for 2 years); Community Employment Program; Australian Biological Resources Study (2 grants, 1 for four years); National Geographic Society; Smithsonian Institution; University of Western Australia (2 grants with Dr. D. I. Walker); Australian Research Council (with Dr. D. I. Walker, Prof. A. J. McComb, Dr. P. A. Hutchings, and Dr. R. Lethbridge) 2 grants, 1 for 3 years; Utah Foundation; Ian Potter Foundation (2 grants); Thomas Dee Fund, Field Museum of Natural History; Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority; Heritage Council of Western Australia (3 grants); Ocean Rescue 2000

Total grant funding: Over $ 610,000

Also participated in multidisciplinary grants to the Natural Sciences Division, WA Museum totaling over $ 1,000,000. Served as chief organizer of four marine biological workshops and co-organiser of one workshop which have attracted funding to the workshops or participants totaling over $ 400,000.

Commercial contracts while at WA Museum: Meagher and LeProvost, Cambridge Gulf Exploration, Halpern, Glick Maunsell (3), Bunbury Port Authority, Kinhill Engineering (4), CRA Exploration, Hadson Energy (2), Sinclair Knight Mertz, Cockburn Cement Ltd., Australian Institute of Marine Science, Geraldton Port Authority, CRIMP, Gascoyne Development Commission. Total commercial contracts: Approx $ 500,000.

Field experience:

Oceanographic: CCGS Louis St. Laurent - Baffin Bay-North Water Winter Cruise, Jan-Feb, 1972. CSS Hudson - St. John's, Newfoundland to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nov 1973. CSS Hudson - Nova Scotian Shelf, Grand Banks and Newfoundland Seamounts, June 1974. CSS Hudson - Cumberland Sound, Davis Strait and Labrador Sea, Sept-Nov 1974. CSS Dawson - Nova Scotian Shelf, Aug 1975. MV Sprightly - Western Australian Shelf, Feb 1976. HMAS Diamantina - Western Australian Shelf, Mar 1976 and Aug 1977.

Shallow water: Canadian east and west coasts, Florida, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Australia (including Christmas I. and Cocos (Keeling) Is.), Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, United Arab Emirates. (Approximately five years total field time in shallow water environments)

Mollusc specialist, Marine Rapid Assessment Program, Conservation International. Surveys in Papua New Guinea (2), Indonesia (2), and the Philippines.

Teaching

Florida State University, 1968-69, demonstrator in introductory biology

McGill University, 1969-74, laboratory demonstrator in introductory biology, introductory zoology, biology of organisms, and invertebrate zoology

Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology) 1979 to 1995, occasional lecturer in aquatic biology and ecology. Supervisor of one BSc(Hons)

thesis, nine final year projects, one graduate diploma project, and eight work-experience

projects (minimum of 4 weeks each, full time). Member of curriculum advisory committee

for BAppSci degree in biology, 1984-87

Murdoch University, 1984 to present, supervised two BSc(Hons) theses and currently supervising one PhD thesis.

University of Western Australia, 1981, lectured on molluscs in second year course,

committee member for one BSc (Hons) thesis (1988) and one graduate diploma thesis (1993)

Miscellaneous qualifications:

National Qualifications System, master scuba diving certificate, current. Professional diver, level 2 (restricted), current. Extensive diving experience.

Senior First Aid Certificate, current.

A-class driver's licence.

Professional society memberships:

Australian Marine Sciences Association: Chair of 1992 annual conference organizing committee; Member of national council, 1979-82 and 1992- ; National treasurer, 1993-1996; member of 2002 conference organising committee, 2001-; organizer of WA branch, 1982; member of WA committee, 1988-1994; treasurer of WA branch, 1989-94).

California Malaco-Zoological Society

American Malacological Society

Malacological Society of London

Malacological Society of Australia (national President 1979-81; national Vice-President

1981-85; Secretary, WA branch, 1982; President, WA branch, 1983). Appointed Honorary Life Member, 1997. Suggested and chaired organizing committee for MOLLUSCS 97, an international symposium on molluscs of the Indo-Pacific.

Unitas Malacologia, The World Mollusc Society. President, 2001-. Organising World Mollusc Conference, Perth, 2004.

Patron, WA Shell Club, 1980 to 1996.

Publication experience:

Senior editor: Western Australian Marine Biological Workshop series published by the Western Australian Museum (see list of books below).

Editor: Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 1979 to 1998. The Journal has

been revamped and renamed (1994) Molluscan Research. I remain on the editorial board.

Co-editor: Australian Shell News (quarterly publication of the Malacological Society of Australia) 1977-79, 1982-84

Editor: Records of the Western Australian Museum, 2000-.

Served as reviewer of manuscripts for: Veliger, Journal of Molluscan Studies, Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research,

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Transactions of the Royal Society

of South Australia, Records of the South Australian Museum, Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, Fisheries Oceanography, Records of the Western Australian Museum, Memoirs of the Natal Museum, Memoirs of the British Museum (Natural History), proceedings of Hong Kong and Darwin workshop volumes, APEX.Australian Journal of Ecotoxicology, and other journals.

Scientific publications:

A total of 12 books, nearly 100 scientific papers either published or accepted for publication, and numerous major manuscript reports

Popular publications:

Numerous short articles in Australian Shell News, Kalori Quarterly News, Bulletin of the Australian Marine Sciences Association, Newsletter of the American Malacological Union, Gould League Notes, Fishing Industry News Service, Western Angler and Diver, Western Fisheries, and the Ansett WA inflight magazine

Other scientific activities:

Participated in a number of international conferences and presented papers at: International Plankton conference, Kiel, Germany (1974); American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Halifax, Canada (1975); Malacological Society of Australia, Melbourne (1977); International Malacological Conference, Sydney, (1979); International series of molluscan and marine biological workshops (Hong Kong, 1983;86;89;92; Albany, 1988; Rottnest Island; 1991; Portuguese Azores (1991); Darwin (1993); Houtman Abrolhos (1994) American Malacological Union, Virginia, USA (l984); Australian Marine Sciences Association (Mandurah, 1983; Sydney, 1988; Mandurah, 1992; Melbourne, 1993; Townsville, 1994; Sydney, 1995; Hobart, 1996); Unitas Malacologia, Tubingen, Germany (1989), Vigo, Spain (1995); International Symposium on Medical and Applied Malacology, Camden, NSW (1993); Second International Abalone Conference, Hobart (1994), MOLLUSCS 97, Rottnest Island, International Symposium on Medical and Applied Malacology, Chiang Mai, Thailand (1997), Tropical Marine Mollusc Programme, Vietnam (1999) and India (2000), Molluscs 2000 Sydney (2000), World Mollusc Coinference, Vienna (2001). Also chaired sessions at many of these meetings. List not complete.

Presented research seminars at: McGill University, Canada; Dalhousie University, Canada; University of Victoria, Canada; University of British Columbia, Canada; California Academy of Sciences, USA; Field Museum of Natural History, USA; University of Western Australia; Murdoch University; Curtin University of Technology; Western Australian Museum; Australian Museum, Western Australian Dept. of Fisheries; CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Marmion (List not complete).

Marine management experience:

Served as member of technical committee for marine reserves, 1992 and member of technical committee for marine parks, 1992- 94 for Abrolhos Island Consultative Committee.

Abrolhos Island Tourism Working Party, 1994-95.

Abrolhos Island Management Advisory Committee, 1996-present.

Member of Technical Advisory Group, Cockburn Cement Environmental Management Plan, 1994-2001; Oversaw all biological programs for the Cockburn EMP during 6 month secondment to DA Lord & Associates in 1995.

One of three scientists on the Marine Rapid Assessment Program of Conservation International, Washington, D.C., examining coral reef biodiversity for management purposes in the Indo-West Pacific.

Other Committee membership:

Member, Science Reference Community Group for the WA Minister for Education, 1996-97.

Consulting capabilities

• Extensive experience in marine biological surveys throughout Western Australia, and in the Northern Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indonesia, , Philippines and Papua New Guinea;

• Introduced species in the Australian marine environment;

• Effects of TBT and imposex in molluscs;

• General marine management;

• Development of management plans;

• Aquaculture, particularly environmental effects of aquaculture;

• Technical editing;

• Surveys for marine parks and reserves;

• Assessment of environmental impacts.

• Effects of tributyltin (TBT) in the marine environment, particularly imposex in marine snails.

Exhibitions experience:

Provided all scientific information and helped plan the ten cases of molluscs and mangrove displays in the W.A. Museum marine gallery opened in December 1983.

Initiated and helped produce temporary displays on molluscs.

Iniatated, served as project leader and provided most scientific input for the 40 case display Seashells by the Seashore, 1993.

Provided all information and helped develop temporary display at Geraldton Museum in 1994.

Displays for Geraldton Museum 2001-

Raja Ampat display, 2001-.

Referees:

Dr D.A. Lord, D.A. Lord & Associates, Box 3172, LPO Broadway, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009. Phone: (08) 9389 9669.

Assoc Prof D.I. Walker, Dept. of Botany, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009. Phone: (08) 9380 2089.

Species named after Dr Fred Wells

Mollusca

Typhis wellsi Houart, 1985.

Houart, R. 1985. Description of two new muricacean species (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Sri Lanka and Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7(1-2): 89-93.

Dentalium (Dentalium) wellsi Lamprell & Healy, 1998: 52-53.

Lamprell, K.L. and Healy, J.M. 1998. A revision of the Scaphopoda from Australian waters (Mollusca). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 24: 1-189.

Oligochaeta

Phallodrilus wellsi Erséus, 1990: 57-59.

Erséus, C. 1990. The marine Tubificidae and Naididae (Oligochaeta) of South-Western Australia. Pages 43-88. In: Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H., and Lethbridge, R. (Eds). 1990/91. Proceedings of the third international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 2 volumes, 722 pages

Olavius (Coralliodriloides) fredi Erséus, 1997: 440-442.

Erséus, C. 1997. Marine Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) from the Montebello and Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Pages 389-458. In: Wells, F. E. (Ed). 1997. Proceedings of the seventh international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 2 volumes, 566 pages.

Nemertea

Paranemertopsis wellsi Gibson, 1990: 172-177.

Gibson, R. 1990. The macrobenthic nemertean fauna of the Albany region, Western Australia. Pages 89-194. In: Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H., and Lethbridge, R. (Eds). 1990/91. Proceedings of the third international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 2 volumes, 722 pages

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Roberts, D. and Wells, F.E. 1981. Seashells of southwestern Australia. Creative Research, Perth. 91 pages.

Wells, F.E. Photography by C.W. Bryce. 1984. A guide to the common mollucs of South-western Australian estuaries. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 112 pp.

Wells, F.E. and Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 208 pp.

Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H., and Lethbridge, R. (Eds). 1990/91. Proceedings of the third international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 2 volumes, 722 pages

Wells, F.E. and Bryce, C.W. 1990. Seashells of Western Australia. Revised edition. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 207 pp.

Wells, F.E., Bryce, C.W., Clark, J.E., and Hansen, G.M. 1989. Christmas Shells: The Marine Molluscs of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). Christmas Island Natural History Association, Christmas Island. 99 pages.

Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H., and Lethbridge, R. (Eds). 1993. Proceedings of the fifth international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of the Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 634 pages.

Wells, F.E. and Bryce, C.W. 1993. Sea slugs and their relatives of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 184 pages.

Wells, F. E. (Ed). 1997. Proceedings of the seventh international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 566 pages.

Shepherd, S.A., McShane, P.E., and Wells, F.E. 1997. Australasian abalone. Molluscan Research 18(2): 119-326.

Walker, D.I., and Wells, F.E. (Eds). 1999. Proceedings of the ninth international marine biological workshop: The seagrass flora and fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 421 pages.

Berry, P.F. and Wells, F.E. 2000. Survey of the marine fauna of the Montebello Islands, Western Australia and Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 59: 1-127.

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

Wells, F.E. 1970. An ecological study of two sympatric species of Fasciolaria (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Alligator Harbor, Florida. Veliger 13: 95-108.

Wells, F.E. 1973. Effects of mesh size on estimation of population densities of tropical euthecosomatous pteropods. Marine Biology 20: 347-350.

Lalli, C.M. and Wells, F.E. 1973. Brood protection in an epipelagic thecosomatous pteropod, Spiratella (Limacina) inflata (d'Orbigny). Bulletin of Marine Science 23: 933-941.

Wells, F.E. 1974. Styliola sinecosta, a new species of pteropod (Opisthobranchia: Thecosomata) from Barbados, West Indies. Veliger 16: 293-296.

Wells, F.E. 1975. Comparison of euthecosomatous pteropods in the plankton and sediments off Barbados, West Indies. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 41: 503-509.

Wells, F.E. 1976. Seasonal patterns of abundance and reproduction of euthecosomatous pteropods off Barbados, West Indies. Veliger 18: 241-248.

Wells, F.E. 1976. Growth rates of four species of euthecosomatous pteropods off Barbados,

West Indies. Nautilus 90: 114-116.

Wells, F.E. 1976. A preliminary examination of euthecosomatous pteropods off the central coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 4: 327-334.

Wells, F.E. 1977. Identification of the juvenile stage of Cuvierina columnella (Rang, 1827). Journal de Conchyliologie 113: 77-82.

Wells, F.E. 1977. Type specimens in the Department of Molluscs,Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 6: 33-61.

Wells, F.E. and Lalli, C. M. 1977. Brood protection in the Caribbean coral reef snails Coralliophila abbreviata (Lamarck) and C. caribaea (Abbott). Journal of Molluscan Studies 43: 79-87.

Wells, F.E. 1978. The relationship between environmental variables and the density of the mud snail Hydrobia totteni in a Nova Scotia salt marsh. Journal of Molluscan Studies 44: 120-129.

Wells, F.E. 1978. Zonation of marine gastropods on a rocky intertidal shore in the Admiralty Gulf, Western Australia, with emphasis on the genus Nerita.Veliger 20: 279-287.

Wells, F.E. 1978. Subgeneric relationships in the euthecosomatous pteropod genus Limacina. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 1-5.

Wells, F.E. 1978. A new generic placement for Scabricola backae Cernohorsky, 1973. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 69-70.

Wells, F.E. 1978. Distribution of thecosomatous pteropods off the central coast of Western Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 29: 853-858.

Lalli, C.M. and Wells, F. E. 1978. Reproduction in the thecosomatous pteropod genus Limacina. Journal of Zoology 186: 95-108.

Wells, F.E. 1979. Ecological segregation among nerites at North West Cape, Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 135-143.

Wells, F.E. 1980. The distribution of shallow-water marine prosobranch gastropod molluscs along the coastline of Western Australia. Veliger 22: 232-247.

Wells, F.E. and Threlfall, T. J. 1980. A quantitative examination of the benthic molluscs of Cockburn Sound, Western Australia. Veliger 23: 131-140.

Roberts, D. and Wells, F.E. 1980. The marine and estuarine molluscs of the Albany area of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8: 335-367.

Wells, F.E. and Threlfall, T. J. 1980. A comparison of molluscan communities on intertidal sand flats in Oyster Harbour and Peel Inlet, Western Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies 46: 300-311.

Wells, F.E. and Roberts, D. 1980. Molluscan assemblages on an intertidal sandflat in Princess Royal Harbour, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 31: 499-507.

Wells, F.E. 1980. A comparative study of distribution of the mudwhelks Terebralia sulcata and T. palustris in a mangrove swamp in northwestern Australia. Malacological Review 13: 1-5.

Wells, F.E. and Slack-Smith, S.M. 1981. Zonation of molluscs in a mangrove swamp in northwestern Australia. In: Biological Survey of Mitchell Plateau and Admiralty Gulf, Kimberley, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth, pp 265-274.

Wells, F.E. 1981. The molluscan fauna of the Admiralty Gulf, Cape Voltaire, and the Institut Islands, Western Australia. Part 1. Chitons, Meso and Neogastropods. In: Biological Survey of Mitchell Plateau and Admiralty Gulf, Kimberley, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth, pp. 249-263.

Wells, F.E. and Threlfall, T.J. 1981. The molluscs of Peel Inlet, Western Australia, and a comparison with other south-western estuaries. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 100-111.

Wells, F.E. and Threlfall, T.J. 1982. Salinity and temperature tolerance of Hydrococcus brazieri (T. Woods, 1876) and Arthritica semen (Menke, 1843) from the Peel-Harvey estuarine system, Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 151-156.

Wells, F.E. and Threlfall, T.J. 1982. Reproductive strategies of Hydrococcus brazieri and Arthritica semen in Peel Inlet, Western Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 5: 157-166.

Wells, F.E. and Threlfall, T.J. 1982. Density fluctuations, growth and production of Hydrococcus brazieri and Arthritica semen in the Peel-Harvey estuarine system, Western Australia. Journal of Molluscan Studies 48: 310-320.

Wells, F.E. 1983. First record of the euthecosomatous pteropod Limacina helicoides Jeffreys, 1877 from the Indian Ocean. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 6: 89-90.