Maria Byrne | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Employer | University of Sydney |
| Known for | Marine Biology |
| Title | Professor |
Maria Byrne FAA is an Australian marine biologist, and professor of marine and developmental biology at the University of Sydney and a member of the Sydney Environment Institute. She spent 12 years as director of the university's research station on One Tree Island. [1]
Byrne is the co-editor of Australian Echinoderms. [2] She and co-author Tim O'Hara were joint winners of the 2018 Whitley Medal for the book. [3] She has been publishing her research on Echinodermata since the early 1980s. [4] In 2000-2002 she was the President of the Australian Marine Sciences Association. [5]
Her research interests include the impact of climate change on marine invertebrates, [6] [7] [8] [9] She has published on sea-urchins and crown-of-thorns star-fish., [10] [11] as well as evolutionary developmental biology, [12] [13] She has also published on egg-provisioning, and the use of mass-spectrometry [14] [15] as well as the biology of the crown of thorns star-fish [16] [17] [11] and other echinodermata. [14] [18] [15] [19] Her most cited article (October 2020) with 966 [20] (or 1314) [21] citations is "Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals". [20]
Byrne was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019. [22]
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