Bronwyn Gillanders

Bronwyn Gillanders
Gillanders (right) leads a gender equity forum at the 2016 joint conference of the Australian Society for Fish Biology and Oceania Chrondrichthyan Society.
Residence	Australia
Nationality	Australian
Fields	Marine ecology
Institutions	University of Adelaide
Alma mater	University of Sydney
Thesis	Links between estuarine and coastal reef populations of Achoerodus viridis (Pisces:Labridae) (1995)
Known for	Research on fish and fisheries ecology
Website http://www.gillanderslab.org/

Bronwyn May Gillanders (born 1963) is a marine scientist whose research spans freshwater, estuarine and marine waters while focusing on fish and fisheries ecology. Her studies of the Giant Australian cuttlefish of Northern Spencer Gulf in South Australia revealed the species' sensitivity to increases in salinity; a controversial aspect of the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the expansion of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine. Gillanders' discovery was published in the scientific journal Marine Environmental Research and prompted environmental activists to call for the relocation of the project's proposed seawater desalination plant at Point Lowly, due to its proximity to the only mass breeding area for the animals' genetically distinct population. Gillanders commenced work at the University of Adelaide in 2001, received a tenurable position in 2007 and was appointed professor in 2010. She is the Director of the Marine Biology program at the university's Environment Institute.

Gillanders is currently the Director of the Spencer Gulf Ecosystem and Development Initiative which as of 2014 is in the early stages of developing an integrated management system for Spencer Gulf's environment and its industrial users. The initiative is led by the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute, in partnership with a number of industrial interests and government agencies. Partners include resource and energy companies BHP Billiton, Santos, Alinta, Arrium Mining, Centrex Metals, Nyrstar and port operator, Flinders Ports. Public sector partners include the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation and Marine Innovation SA collaborators South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and Flinders University.