Ecologist
Dr Andrew Constable
Dr Constable is a quantitative marine ecologist using science to assist in ecosystem-based management of fisheries, conservation of biodiversity (including marine protected areas) and human implications of long-term dynamics and change in marine ecosystems. He was a lecturer in quantitative marine ecology from 1991-1997 before joining the Australian Antarctic Division and has been a program leader at ACE CRC since 2005. He is active (since 1986) in the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR); was a lead author in AR5 on Antarctic ecosystems in Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate; and is currently the Vice-Chair (Biology) of the Southern Ocean Observing System. He was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation in 2008. His publications include over 40 refereed publications, two edited special issues, and over 160 scientific and policy papers to the work of CCAMLR and other forums.
social & academic profiles
Current ACE Research
Dr. Constable co-leads the Ocean Carbon and Ecosystems Program. His research focuses (1) on the design and implementation of field observing programs to measure dynamics and change in marine ecosystems and (2) on methods to assess their current status and future trends, which can then be used by mangers, policy-makers and the public at large. Ecosystem simulation models are being developed to help with both these tasks. Much of his work aims at facilitating international collaboration on these questions as no nation can do these tasks alone. This includes further developing the work of the Southern Ocean Observing System, CCAMLR, SCAR and the IMBER program Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics. The Southern Ocean Knowledge and Information (SOKI) wiki is being developed to help achieve this collaboration. He is coordinating an international conference on Assessing Status and Trends of Key Habitats, Species and Food Webs in the Southern Ocean to be held in Hobart in 2018.
Links
Video: Meet our scientists, Australian Antarctic Division
Key publications
CONSTABLE, A. (2011) Lessons from CCAMLR on the implementation of the ecosystem approach to managing fisheries. Fish and Fisheries. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00410.x
Murphy, E.J., Cavanagh, R.D., Hofmann, E.E., Hill, S.L., CONSTABLE, A.J., Costa, D.P., Pinkerton, M.H., Johnston, N.M., Trathan, P.N., Klinck, J.M., Wolf-Gladrow, D.A., Daly, K.L., Maury, O. , Doney, S.C. (2012) Developing integrated models of Southern Ocean food webs: Including ecological complexity, accounting for uncertainty and the importance of scale. Progress in Oceanography, 102:74-92.
Kawaguchi, S., Ishida, A., King, R., Raymond, B., Waller, N., CONSTABLE, A., Nicol, S., Wakita, M., Ishimatsu, A. (2013). Risk maps for Antarctic krill under projected Southern Ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change, 10.1038/nclimate1937.
Nymand Larson, J., Anisimov, O., CONSTABLE A.J., Hollowed, A., Maynard, N., Prestrud, P., Prowse, T., Stone, J., 2014. Chapter 28: Polar Regions, in: Field, C.B., Barros, R.B. (Eds.), Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Report of Working Group II. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, San Francisco, p. 71 pp.
CONSTABLE, A., Melbourne-Thomas, J., Corney, S., Arrigo, K., Barbraud, C., Barnes, D., Bindoff, N., Boyd, P., Brandt, A., Costa, D., Davidson, A., Ducklow, H., Emmerson, L., Fukuchi, M., Gutt, J., Hindell, M., Hofmann, E., Hosie, G., Iida, T., Jacob, S., Johnston, N., Kawaguchi, S., Kokubun, N., Koubbi, P., Lea, M.A., Makhado, A., Massom, R., Meiners, K., Meredith, M., Murphy, E., Nicol, S., Reid, K., Richerson, K., Riddle, M., Rintoul, S., Smith, W., Southwell, C., Stark, J., Sumner, M., Swadling, K., Takahashi, K., Trathan, P., Welsford, D., Weimerskirch, H., Westwood, K., Wienecke, B., Wolf-Gladrow, D., Wright, S., Xavier, J., Ziegler, P. (2014) Change in Southern Ocean ecosystems I: How changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12623
Download in colour hi-res
contact information
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
Email: andrew.constable@aad.gov.au
Authorised by the CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre October 2019.
The ACE CRC was established and supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program.
core participants
