Maria Byrne FAA is an Australian marine biologist, and professor of marine and developmental biology at the University of Sydney and a member of the Sydney Environment Institute.
She spent 12 years as director of the university's research station on One Tree Island.
[2] She and co-author Tim O'Hara were joint winners of the 2018 Whitley Medal for the book.
[5] Her research interests include the impact of climate change on marine invertebrates,[6][7][8][9] She has published on sea-urchins and crown-of-thorns star-fish.,[10][11] as well as evolutionary developmental biology,[12][13] She has also published on egg-provisioning, and the use of mass-spectrometry [14][15] as well as the biology of the crown of thorns star-fish[16][17][11] and other echinodermata.
[14][18][15][19] Her most cited article (October 2020) with 966[20] (or 1314)[21] citations is "Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals".