Dr. Justin Gerlach

Scientific co-ordinator, Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles

Chair, IUCN/SSC Terrestrial and Freshwater Invertebrate Red List Authority

Academic Associate, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Affiliated researcher, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

E-mail: gerlachs@btinternet.com

Research and Conservation Interests

Taxonomy, ecology, evolution and conservation, espeically on islands. Plants and animals, epecially molluscs, reptiles and bats.

Recent work has concentrated on evaluating the status of the world's invertebrates through my role as Chair of the IUCN/SSC Terrestrial and Freshwater Invertebrate Red List Authority.

Publications

New taxa described by Justin Gerlach

Education:
1991 MA Zoology - Class I (Wadham College, Oxford)
1994 DPhil "The Ecology of the Carnivorous Snail Euglandina rosea".  Department of Zoology, Oxford University. Funded by the Christopher Welch Scholarship

Awards, appointments and fellowships:

1990 Pacific Land Snail Group  member- international conservation co-ordination group
1991 Royal Geographic Society fellow 
Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles council member
1994 Royal Society for Nature Conservation Aride Research Group
1995 NPTS Scientific Committee Chairman
1999 IUCN Species Survival Commission member:
  • Madagascar & Mascarene Reptile Amphibian Specialist Group (1999-2005)
  • Heron Specialist Group (from 2000)
  • Southern African Invertebrate Specialist Group (2001-2005)
  • Tortoise Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (from 2002)
  • Invertebrate Conservation Subcommittee (from 2005)
  • Indian Ocean Plant Specialist Group (2007-2009)
  • Amphibian Specialist Group (from 2007)
  • Mollusc Specialist Group (from 2008)
  • Terrestrial and Freshwater Red List Authority chair (from 2010)
  • Conservaton Planning Subcommittee (from 2011)
Affiliated Researcher - University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
National Expert on Forest Biodiversity (Seychelles list to Convention on Biological Diversity)
2000 Kay Gray Memorial Award for contributions to Chelonian conservation, British Chelonia Group
2000- IUCN UK Committee member
2004-6 Island Conservation Society UK trustee
2009- Academic Associate - Pembroke College, Cambridge