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Marscco's Director, Francis (Pancho) Neira, completed his Marine Biology/Oceanography degree at the University of Concepción (Chile) in 1982, and obtained a PhD in biological sciences (Marine Zoology) at Murdoch University (Western Australia) in 1988. He has worked in benthic communities of Antarctic bays (1980, 1981); fish ecology in rivers, estuaries and coastal waters along south-western Western Australia (1984 - 1994); biological oceanography, fish and fisheries research across eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Bass Strait, Victorian coastal waters, and northern and eastern Tasmania (1995 - 2011); freshwater fish ecology in Northern Territory (2002); and marine baseline and monitorting fish surveys to support environmental impact statements (EIS) in Papua New Guinea and Queensland (2011 - present).

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