William Stephenson MBE (1916–1996) was a British/Australian marine biologist and academic.
William Stephenson was born on 14 June 1916 in Fence Houses, Durham, England.
He lectured at Kings College, Newcastle and the University of Bristol, under Maurice Yonge.
He led students on vacation fieldwork in marine biology at the University College, Bangor and Cullercoats.
He also worked as a lecturer and naturalist at the Dove Marine Laboratory in Cullercoats,[2] part of Kings College, Newcastle.
[3] Stephenson was involved in non-active service during WW2 with the University Senior Training Corps.
He was commissioned in the University of Bristol Senior Training Corps.
Stephenson accepted a professorial position at the University of Queensland in 1949.
[1] He promoted the establishment of marine research stations for the university at North Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay and Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
[7] He was married to Rita and they had four children, William, Suzan, Alison and Margot.
Concentration regulation and volume control in Lumbricus terrestris L. Nature, 155 (3943), 635.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 28 (2), 371-380.
Key to the genera of reef building corals of Queensland.
Experimental Studies on the Ecology of Intertidal Environments at Heron Island.
The biology of Callianassa (Trypaea) australiensis Dana 1852 (Crustacea, Thalassinidea).
Ecological and life history studies upon a large foraminferan (Discobetellina biperforata Collins 1958) from Moreton Bay, Queensland.
Brachyura of the Pacific coast of America, Brachyrhyncha: Portunidae (No.
Los Angeles: Printed for the Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California.
Portunid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) collected by the ‘Discovery’ in the Indian Ocean.
The Endeavour and other Australian Museum collections of portunid crabs.
Portunid crabs from the International Indian Ocean Expedition in the Smithsonian Collections (Crustacea: Portunidae).
A Revision of the Genus Ovalipes Rathbun, 1898 (CRUSTACEA, DECAPODA, PORTUNIDAE).
The intertidal acorn barnacle Tetraclita vitiate Darwin at Heron Island.
Numerical approaches to the relationships of certain American swimming crabs (Crustacea: Portunidae).
The Sublittoral brachyura (crustacea: decapoda) of Moreton Bay.
Portunid crabs from the Indo-West-Pacific and Western America in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae).
The analysis of three-dimensional data (sites x species x times) in marine ecology.
The Benthic fauna of soft bottoms, southern Moreton Bay.
The Portunidae (Decapoda-Brachyura) of the snellius expedition (Part II).
Notes on Indo-West-Pacific Portunids (Decapoda, Portunidae) in the Smithsonian Institution.