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Brief Biography
Thomas J. Goreau, Ph.D. is President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, a
non-profit organization for cutting edge work on coral reef conservation and
sustainable management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr. Goreau has been diving in coral reefs since he could
walk. His father was the first diving coral reef scientist and pioneered
modern coral reef science.
He was educated in Jamaican primary schools, and received a
BS in planetary physics from MIT, a MS in planetary astronomy from Caltech, and
a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from Harvard.
He has taught at universities in the United States and
Brazil, where he worked on the effects of Amazon deforestation on the chemistry
of the atmosphere, and was Senior Scientific Affairs Officer at the United
Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development.
He led efforts to protect coral reefs at the negotiations
for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the Framework
Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Conference on the Development
of Small Island Developing States, and the World Summit on Sustainable
Development.
His research currently focuses on the effects of global
warming and pollution on coral reefs and on coral reef restoration. His work has
taken him to coral reefs all across the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific.
Education
Ph.D., Biogeochemistry, 1981, Harvard University, MA, USA
Master of Science, Planetary Astronomy, 1972, California Institute of Technology
(Caltech),
CA, USA
Bachelor of Science, Planetary Physics, 1970, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, MA, USA
Selected Publications
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Assessing Coral Reef Health. Science, Thomas J.
Goreau
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Balancing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Thomas J. Goreau
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Balancing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Thomas J. Goreau
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Caribbean Sea Surface Temperatures and Coral Bleaching 1989—1996,Thomas J.
Goreau, Raymond Hayes, and Alan Strong
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Climate Change Impacts Have Been Underestimated, Thomas J. Goreau
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Community-Based Whole-Watershed and Coastal Zone Management in Jamaica, T. J.
Goreau, L. Daley, S. Ciappara, J. Brown
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Control of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide , Thomas J. Goreau
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Coral Bleaching In The Seychelles--Impacts and Recommendations, Thomas J.
Goreau, Ph.D.
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Coral bleaching and ocean "hot spots"
AmbioGoreau, T.J. and R. L. Hayes. 1994.
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Coral Recovery From Bleaching in Alphonse and Bijoutier, Seychelles, Thomas J.
Goreau, Ph.D.
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Coral Recovery From Bleaching in Seychelles, Thomas J. Goreau
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Coral Reef Protection in Western Jamaica, Thomas J. Goreau
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Coral Reefs Rainforests of the Ocean: Thomas J. Goreau
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Coral Reefs, Sewage Treatment, and Water Quality Standards, Thomas J. Goreau
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Elevated Sea Surface Temperatures Correlate with Caribbean Coral Reef
Bleaching , Thomas J. Goreau
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Energy Systems, Environment and Development, Thomas J. Goreau
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Environmentally Sound Technology for Sustainable Development, Thomas J. Goreau
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Monitoring and Calibrating Sea Surface Temperature, Thomas J. Goreau
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Negril & Green Island Area Environmental Protection Plan--October 1995, T.
Goreau, J. Brown, E. Gordon, et.al
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Rapid Spread of Diseases in Caribbean Coral Reefs, Thomas J Goreau, James
Cervino, Maya Goreau, et al.
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Reef
Restoration Using Seawater Electrolysis in Jamaica, Thomas J. Goreau and Wolf
Hilbertz
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Reduced Growth Rate of Montastrea Annularis Following the 1987-1988
Coral-Bleaching Event, T. J. Goreau and A. H. Macfarlane
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Scientific Correspondence Coral Bleaching in Jamaica, Thomas J. Goreau
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Third Generation Artificial Reefs, Wolf Hilbertz and Thomas Goreau
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Tracking South Pacific Coral Reef Bleaching by Satellite and Field Observations,
T. J. Goreau1, R. L. Hayes2, and A. E. Strong
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Tropical Deforestation: Some Effects on Atmospheric Chemistry, Thomas J. Goreau
and William Z. de Mello
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Tropical Ecophysiology, Climate Change, and the Global Carbon Cycle, Thomas J.
Goreau
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Water quality in Negril, Maya Goreau & Thomas J. Goreau
