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Dr. Purcell is an Australian, with a PhD in quantitative marine ecology from James Cook University (1998). He has worked with WorldFish and the SPC since 2001, leading research projects on sea cucumber restocking, aquaculture, and fisheries assessment and management. His published studies on sea cucumbers have spanned topics such as restocking, survival and growth, marking methods, movement, genetic stock structure, taxonomy, pond culture and disease. Dr. Purcell also has an executive role in a United Nations-FAO project on sea cucumbers, is an author of a recent ACIAR guidebook on management of sea cucumber fisheries, and acts as a technical specialist for a Philippines-based project on sandfish sea ranching and restocking. |
