STAFF PROFILE
Professor John Buckeridge
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Phone:
+61 3 9925 2009
Email:
john.buckeridge@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
Media comments
John Buckeridge is Professor of Natural Resources Engineering in the Environmental Engineering Discipline. John was elected Honorarprofessor (Ethics) at Wismar University, Germany in 2004. He maintains wide international involvement in the natural environment and ethics, and teaches ethics in a range of RMIT programmes. In 2008, John was appointed President Emeritus of the International Society of Zoological Sciences for excellence and service in zoology. In 2008 he was awarded Rotary International's Paul Harris Fellowship in recognition of his services to education. He has published extensively on professional ethics, environmental impact assessment, systematic biology and the palaeobiology, evolution and distribution of marine invertebrates.
Research and consulting expertise
- Natural Resource Engineering
- Assessment for Environmental Effects
- Environmental Ethics
- Ethics in science and engineering education
- Development of universal ethical norms for the environment
- Marine Biology and Palaeobiology
- Arthropod evolution and palaeoecology, special emphasis on the Cirripedia
- Cretaceous - Recent biodiversity and palaeobiogeography of Porifera (Lithistida)
- Cainozoic stratigraphy, evolutionary patterns and biogeography
- Conservation and Biology
- Distribution of organisms in Australian ecosystems, with special emphasis on Port Phillip and surrounds.
By appointment, please email john.buckeridge@rmit.edu.au
BSc (Cant.), MSc (Hons), PhD (Auck.), (CP Env), FGS (Lond.)
Professional memberships
- Fellow: The Geological Society (London)
- Executive Board (2014- ): International Council for Science (ICSU)
- President (2007-2009): International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS)
- IUBS Executive (2004-2012): As an IUBS Officer 2007-2012.
- Chair: International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) Ethics Commission
- Chair: International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS) Working Group on nvironmental Ethics
- President (2000-2008): International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS)
- Honorary Member (2010-): Hungarian Academy of Science
- Koci, T.,Vodrazka, R.,Veselska, M.,Buckeridge, J. (2018). An intertidal balanomorph Hexaminius venerai sp. nov. (Austrobalanidae) colonizing a log of Podocarpoxylon from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctica: a glimpse on Antarctic antiquity In: Historical Biology, , 1 - 9
- Loxton, K.,Buckeridge, J. (2017). Birds of the Rickett's Point Marine Sanctuary: Rickett's Point Victoria 3193, Greypath Productions, Melbourne, Australia
- McSweeney, F.,Buckeridge, J. (2017). The fossils of the urban sanctuary: Rickett's Point, Victoria 3193, Greypath Productions, Melbourne, Australia
- Nagler, C.,Haug, J.,Glenner, H.,Buckeridge, J. (2017). Litholepas klausreschi gen. et sp. nov., a new neolepadine barnacle (Cirripedia, Thoracica) on a sponge from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany In: Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlungen, 284, 29 - 42
- Buckeridge, J.,Newman, W. (2017). The "Tears of the Virgin" at Lakes Entrance, southeast Australia were made by the intertidal barnacle Chthamalus antennatus (Cirripedia: Thoracica) and cyanobacteria In: Integrative Zoology, 12, 228 - 236
- Koci, T.,Veselska, M.,Newman, W.,Buckeridge, J.,Sklenar, J. (2017). Archaeochionelasmus nekvasilovae gen. et sp. nov. (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha, Chionelasmatoidea) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic): the first bona fide Cretaceous neobalanoform In: Zootaxa, 4294, 181 - 196
- Koci, T.,Veselska, M.,Buckeridge, J.,Jagt, J. (2016). A new barnacle, Myolepas reussi (Cirripedia, Scalpelliformes), from a near-shore, shallow-water facies in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic In: Neues Jahrbuch f�r Geologie und Pal�ontologie-Monatsefte, 280, 299 - 313
- Wang, G.,Hollar, D.,Sayger, S.,Zhu, Z.,Buckeridge, J.,Li, J.,Chong, J.,Duffield, C.,Ryu, D.,Hu, W. (2016). Risk considerations in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the construction industry In: Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, 6, 165 - 177
- Wang, G.,Buckeridge, J. (2016). Teaching ethics for construction management majored students: Standalone or micro-insert? - Globalization and sustainability considerations In: Proceedings of the 123rd Annual American Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exposition 2016, New Orleans, United States, 26-29 June 2016
- Buckeridge, J. (2015). Revision of southern hemisphere taxa referred to fosterella (crustacea: cirripedia), and their extinction in response to pleistocene cooling In: Integrative Zoology, 10, 555 - 571
- IUBS Ethics Commission: Incorporating the International Centre for Environmental and Bioethic (ICEB). Funded by: International Union of Biological Science Research Grant pre-2014 from (2010 to 2011)
- A handbook and key to the shallow marine fauna of the Ricketts Marine Sanctuary. Funded by: The Norman Wettenhall Foundation Grant pre-2014 from (2010 to 2011)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
1 Masters by Research Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions