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
- Ecosystem restoration
- Marine Biology
Research Interests
- Human impacts in marine ecosystems
- Ecosystem restoration and conservation
- Nature-based solutions
- Blue Carbon
- 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
- Nature-based solutions
- Blue Carbon enhancement
- Sustainable development of aquaculture
- Historical ecology
Research Team
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Dr. Rhian Evans
Ph.D. candidates: Mr Khan Cheung, Miss Kaile Zhong, Mr S.A.M. Shariar Islam
Fellowships
- Association of Commonwealth Universities Fellowship (2021)
- Universitas 21 Fellowship (2020)
- Advanced Visiting Researcher Fellowship to the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China (2014-15)
Publications and News
- Please see my publications at: https://www.marinefutures.org/publications
Awards and Honours
- Ranked 59th in Researchers in Ecology & Evolution in China, 4th in Hong Kong (2022) (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/ecology-and-evolution/cn)
- Top 1% cited scientists in the world in research field by Clarivate Analytics’ Essential Science Indicators 2018 – 2022 (https://hub.hku.hk/local/top1pc/top1pc.jsp)
- Exceptional Young Researcher in Marine Science award, Australian Academy of Sciences (2012)