Mark Chinkin

Institution:

Australian Institute of Marine Science

Profile

I am a member of the Australian Institute of Marine Science team conducting fish surveys and biochronologies studies across the British Indian Ocean Territory.

I am mainly involved in logistics, planning and safe execution of fieldwork, particularly diving and have undertaken the Diver Officer role on both the trips I’ve attended to date.

Climate change is a major challenge and beyond the ability of any one organisation, or nation, to solve. It will take collective global effort.

Mark Chinkin

Biography

2016 Present

Field Operations Officer, Perth, AIMS

2005 Present

Commercial Diver and Dive Supervisor, Various

2011 2016

Marine Consultant and Field Manager, Perth, Jacobs (SKM)

2010 2011

Marine Parks Ranger, Moreton Bay, QLD Parks and Wildlife

2008 2010

Boating and Diving Officer, Heron Island Research Station, University of Queensland

My Project

Coral Reef Resilience

Coral Reef Fish in the British Indian Ocean Territory

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Other interests

In my role at AIMS I work across a multitude of projects, providing leadership and technical support in scientific research environments including controlled experimental facilities, specialty laboratories, field operations in remote locations.

My Publications

Unprecedented Longevity of Unharvested Shallow-Water Snappers in the Indian Ocean

Taylor, B.M., Wakefield, C.B., Newman, S.J., Chinkin, M. and Meekan, M.G. (2021) Unprecedented longevity of unharvested shallow-water snappers in the Indian Ocean. Coral Reefs.

Teleconnections Reveal That Drivers of Inter-Annual Growth Can Vary From Local to Ocean Basin Scales in Tropical Snappers

Taylor, B.M., Chinkin, M. and Meekan, M.G. (2020) Teleconnections reveal that drivers of inter-annual growth can vary from local to ocean basin scales in tropical snappers. Coral Reefs. 39, 397–407.