Dr Dennis Gordon is a Principal Scientist at the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), where he led a marine biodiversity research group for 13 years. He was trained as a marine biologist, and his major research interest is the systematics, biology, and phylogeny of living and fossil Bryozoa. Beyond this group, Dennis has a broad interest in all of life, and serves on the inter-national teams that are respectively co-ordinating the production of the Catalogue of Life and the World Register of Marine Species. He is a past chairman of the Royal Society of New Zealand Committee on Biodiversity. In 2005 he was recipient of the prestigious New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Award for his lifetime contribution to the advancement of marine science in New Zealand.
"[A] spectacular volume that will serve as a textbook and reference source for a wide-ranging, global audience." --Tim Littlewood, phylogeneticist, Quarterly Review of Biology, on the first volume
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