
Dr. RUSSELL, Bayden
Associate Director of SWIMS and Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU
BSc(Honours First Class) (Australia); Ph.D. (Australia)
Teaching Areas
- Tropical and Temperate Marine Ecology
- Ecosystem Function and Services
- Marine Biology
Research Interests
- Human impacts in marine ecosystems
- Habitat restoration and conservation
- Physiology of marine invertebrates
- Thermal physiology and range shifts
- Coral reef ecology
- Intergenerational responses to climate change
Current Research
- Effects of climate change on subtidal invertebrates
- Thermal adaptation of sea urchins
- Multi-generational adaptation to ocean warming and acidification
- Oyster reef restoration in China
- Sustainable development of aquaculture
- Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
Research Team
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Dr. Ashley Hemraj
Ph.D. candidates: Mr Jake Dytnerski, Miss Jay Minuti, Mr Rhyn Cheung, Mr Kevin Geoghegan, Miss Cheryl Chu
Research Assistants: Mr Steven Wong, Mr Rinaldi Gotama
Fellowships
- Advanced Visiting Researcher Fellowship to the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China (2014-15)
Publications and News
- Congratulations to Jay Minuti for being selected to represent HKU at the Global Young Scientists Summit, Singapore, 2019
- Congratulations to Mr Rhyn Wai Yin Cheung for being awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Research Fellowship (2018).
- Please see my publications at: https://www.marinefutures.org/publications
Awards and Honours
- Exceptional Young Researcher in Marine Science award, Australian Academy of Sciences (2012)