Alan is a senior temperate marine research scientist. He conducts or co-ordinates research that contributes to the management of Western Australia’s marine parks and reserves and protected marine fauna. He has previously undertaken research on seagrass fish communities, and in particular, the spatial and trophic ecology and reproductive biology of temperate syngnathid fishes (pipefishes and seahorses). Alan has also worked for DEC as a Marine Planning Officer and as Marine Park Coordinator for the Shark Bay District, where he managed the World Heritage listed Shark Bay Marine Park and the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve. More recently he was based in Exmouth as the Marine and Coastal Ecologist for Pilbara Region, where he worked with the Marine Science Program to establish research and monitoring programs in the Ningaloo and Montebello-Barrow Islands marine reserves.

• Ecology of seagrass fishes.
• Spatial and trophic ecology and reproductive biology of syngnathid fishes.
• Marine protected area management.

Qualifications

2002

PhD, Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, Murdoch University. Thesis title: Resource utilisation and reproductive biology of syngnathid fishes in a seagrass-dominated marine environment in south-western Australia.

1993

Honours, School of Biological Sciences, Murdoch University. Thesis title: Assemblages of larval fishes in coastal waters of south-western Australia.

1983

Bachelor of Science (Zoology), University of Western Australia.

Positions held

2008–

Senior Temperate Research Scientist, Marine Science Program, Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia

2005–2008

Marine and Coastal Ecologist, Pilbara Region, Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia

2005

Marine Park Coordinator, Shark Bay District, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia

2003–2004

Marine Planning Officer, Marine Conservation Branch, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia

2003

Coastal and Marine Project Officer, Southwest Region, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia

Membership of Professional Associations

• Australian Marine Science Association
• Australian Society for Fish Biology

• The ecology of mangrove communities in the Shark Bay marine reserves.
• The ecology of inter-tidal reef communities in marine reserves of the Perth metropolitan area.

(6 items)

2008

Armstrong S, Webster F, Kendrick A, Mau R, Onton K (2008). Summary of the 2006 winter coral bleaching event at Ningaloo Marine Park. In Discovering Ningaloo: latest findings and their implications for management: Ningaloo research program progress report (eds K Waples, E Hollander). Ningaloo Research Coordination Committee, Kensington, WA. pp. 65–68

Black R, Brearley A, Johnson MS, Kendrick A, Prince J (2008). Intertidal invertebrate surveys. In Discovering Ningaloo: latest findings and their implications for management: Ningaloo research program progress report (eds K Waples, E Hollander). Ningaloo Research Coordination Committee, Kensington, WA. pp. 14–15

Simpson C, Waples K, Kendrick A (2008). Science and management: building a framework for knowledge transfer. In Discovering Ningaloo: latest findings and their implications for management: Ningaloo research program progress report (eds K Waples, E Hollander). Ningaloo Research Coordination Committee, Kensington, WA. pp. 88–90

2005

Kendrick AJ, Hyndes GA (2005). Variations in the dietary composition of morphologically diverse syngnathid fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72, pp. 415–427

2003

Hyndes GA, Kendrick AJ (2003). Differences on the species- and size-composition of fish assemblages in three distinct seagrass habitats with differing plant and meadow structure. Marine Biology 142, pp. 1195–1206

Kendrick AJ, Hyndes GA (2003). Patterns in the abundance and size-distribution of syngnathid fishes among habitats in a seagrass-dominated marine environment. Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science 57, pp. 631–640