Barry Brook (scientist)

Barry William Brook ( born February 28, 1974 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian environmental scientist.

Career

Brook studied at Macquarie University in Sydney. There he obtained a B.Sc. in 1995 (Hons I) in Conservation Biology, Ecology and Evolution ( conservation biology, ecology and evolution ). In 1999, he was with a work from the field of nature conservation ( Title: Evaluating population viability analysis) for Ph.D. doctorate. After that, he was a long time at the Key Centre for Tropical Wildlife Management operates in Darwin. A publication published in 2000 by Brook ( et al. ) In the journal Nature reviewed and confirmed the model of population viability analysis.

At the University of Adelaide Brook holds the Sir Hubert Wilkins, named after the Chair of Climate Change and is Director of the Environment Institute. He is also a member of the Science and Research Council ( German: Science ) Advisor to the Government of the State of South Australia.

In the non-governmental and non-profit self-reported Science Council for Global Initiatives ( German: Science Council for Global Initiatives ), which mediates some prominent nuclear experts such as Evgeny Velikhov and Baldev Raj together with prominent climate activists such as James E. Hansen for speeches and events, Brook is a member.

Brook is an outspoken proponent of nuclear energy and counts them, especially when using the 4th generation reactors such as the sodium-cooled Fast Reactor Integral ( a breeder reactor newer type ) to sustainably and permanently usable energy. He defends this thesis, among other things, in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung itself in connection with the Fukushima nuclear disaster in the wake of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011.

Brook speaks itself as environmental biologist and climate specialist in favor of a reactor type from where although intensive research, which is considered critical but at the same time by several opponents and specialists because of the risk for a release of sodium from the cooling circuit. Brook drawing attention to the other energy sources and global warming in general existing risks.

A wider public is known as a blogger Brook, its internet platform called BraveNewClimate.

Personal

Brook is married to a Japanese woman and has two sons.

Awards

  • 2010: Community Science Educator of the Year
  • 2007: Cosmos Bright Sparks Award as one of the top ten among the young scientists in Australia
  • 2007: H. G. Andrewartha Medal
  • 2006: Fenner Medal
  • 2006: Edgeworth David Medal
  • 1999: Prize of the Australian Flora Foundation

Publications

  • Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. Brook, B. W., Sodhi, N.S. & Bradshaw, C.J.A. Trends Ecol Evol (2008) 23: 453-460
  • Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore. Brook, B. W., Sodhi, N.S., & Ng, P.K.L. Nature (2003) 424: 420-423.
  • Predictive accuracy of population viability analysis in conservation biology. Brook, BW, O'Grady, JJ, Chapman, AP, Burgman, MA, Akcakaya, HR, & Frankham, R. Nature (2000) 404: 385-387
  • Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis, Sodhi, NS, Brook, BW (2006) Cambridge University Press, London, UK, ISBN 978-0-521-83930-3, 212 p.
  • Tropical Conservation Biology, Sodhi, Navjot S., Barry W. Brook and Corey JA Bradshaw (2007) Wiley -Blackwell, ISBN 978-1405150736
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