Carden C. Wallace graduated with a first class degree in Science from the University of Queensland in 1970.
[1] In 1984, Wallace and six others first reported that corals took part in mass spawning which they observed on the Great Barrier Reef in October/November.
[5] As a result, the team from James Cook University were awarded the Eureka Prize for Environmental Research in 1992.
This was the first study in over a century of the genus Acropora, and it included a full description of each sub-species.
[12] In 2008, Wallace and others reported on the recovery of bio-diversity following the atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll.