Peter Townsend Harris

<p><strong>Peter Townsend Harris</strong> graduated from the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) and completed a PhD at the University of Wales (Swansea, UK). He has worked in marine geoscience for over 40 years and published over 130 scientific books and articles on marine geology, environmental assessments, global seafloor geomorphology and oceanography. He was awarded the SEPM Shepard Medal for Marine Geology in 2018. &nbsp;He taught marine geology at the University of Sydney and conducted research on Australia&rsquo;s Great Barrier Reef and the Fly River Delta (Papua New Guinea). From 1994 to 2014 he was a leader of Australia&rsquo;s Antarctic geoscience programme and a senior manager with Geoscience Australia. Peter was Managing Director of GRID-Arendal, a UNEP collaborating centre, from 2014 to 2023. He is currently an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania, Hobart.</p>