Tony Rees

Northern Rivers region, New South Wales Australia

Independent Researcher/Biodiversity Data Consultant

Tony comes originally from a background as a biologist, then 16 years in the electron microscopy area working with microfossils (in the UK) and marine phytoplankton, invertebrates and fishes (in Australia), followed by a move into data management in 1996. For the past 15 years he has been a hands on data manager working with the marine division of CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, based in Hobart, Tasmania, where among other products and applications he has developed a number of leading solutions in the area of computerized management of biological data (Biodiversity Informatics). Most recently he managed the Information and Data Centre for CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship (...