Professor Chris Perry
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences,
University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ. UK
Tel: +44 (0)1332 723334 E-mail: [email protected] Skype: chris.perry67
My research addresses fundamental questions about the response of coral reefs and reef islands to environmental and climatic change, and the geomorphologic processes that control the evolution of tropical coastal and marine sedimentary environments. Key areas of current research are aimed at (1) improving understanding of rates and styles of coral reef growth, with a specific focus on terrestrial sediment-influenced nearshore environments; (2) on better understanding the timing of reef island development and on the sedimentary links between reefs and reef islands; and (3) on quantfiying rates of coral reef and marine carbonate production. Our group work across both the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean reef-building regions.
Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences,
University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ. UK
Tel: +44 (0)1332 723334 E-mail: [email protected] Skype: chris.perry67
My research addresses fundamental questions about the response of coral reefs and reef islands to environmental and climatic change, and the geomorphologic processes that control the evolution of tropical coastal and marine sedimentary environments. Key areas of current research are aimed at (1) improving understanding of rates and styles of coral reef growth, with a specific focus on terrestrial sediment-influenced nearshore environments; (2) on better understanding the timing of reef island development and on the sedimentary links between reefs and reef islands; and (3) on quantfiying rates of coral reef and marine carbonate production. Our group work across both the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean reef-building regions.
Present Post and Academic Roles:
2011 – present Professor in Physical Geography, Geography, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
2012 – present Director of Research (Geography)
External Academic Roles:
2013 – present Geoscience Editor – Coral Reefs
2013 – present Member, Natural Environment Research Council, Peer Review College
2012 – present External Examiner – Earth Sciences, University of Plymouth
2009 – present Chair, REEForm. International Association of Geomorphologists Working Group on ‘Reef and reef landform geomorphology: responses to climatic and environmental change’
2009 – present Coordinator, Leverhulme Trust International Research Network ‘Developing rapid carbonate budget assessment protocols for coral reefs’
2011 – present Professor in Physical Geography, Geography, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
2012 – present Director of Research (Geography)
External Academic Roles:
2013 – present Geoscience Editor – Coral Reefs
2013 – present Member, Natural Environment Research Council, Peer Review College
2012 – present External Examiner – Earth Sciences, University of Plymouth
2009 – present Chair, REEForm. International Association of Geomorphologists Working Group on ‘Reef and reef landform geomorphology: responses to climatic and environmental change’
2009 – present Coordinator, Leverhulme Trust International Research Network ‘Developing rapid carbonate budget assessment protocols for coral reefs’
Recent grant funding:
- NERC Radiocarbon Lab (Radiocarbon Dating Allocation 1751.1013) The development and evolution of atoll rim reef islands, Huvadhu Atoll, Maldives Archipelago. £10,440
- NERC Radiocarbon Lab (Radiocarbon Dating Allocation 1727.1013) Inner-shelf reef growth and future trajectories of reef geomorphic change. £23,780
- NERC-ESPA-DFiD: Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme Grant Sustainable poverty alleviation from coastal ecosystem services (SPACES): Investigating elasticities, feedbacks and tradeoffs. £805,000 (part of £2M bid)
- Exeter Science Strategy Project Development Fund 2013. Constraining reef-reef island sediment linkages: towards integrated physical-social assessments of reef island resilience. £9,800
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/K003143/1) Carbonate sediment production by marine fish: quantifying production across carbonate provinces and applications to global marine carbonate modelling £577,110
- NERC Radiocarbon Lab (Radiocarbon Dating Allocation 1654.0912) Terrigenous sediment-dominated reefs as precursors for shelf-reef development £11,020
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/J023329/1) Exploring the hidden shallows: inner-shelf reef growth and future trajectories of reef geomorphic change £521,810
- NERC Radiocarbon Lab Natural (Radiocarbon Dating Allocation 1580.0911) Rates and timescales of lagoon infilling as a control on reef island development. £27,840
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/J005398/1) Rapid assessments of Cyclone Yasi’s impact on nearshore coral reefs and resultant sediment records of the event. £62,014
- NERC Radiocarbon Lab (Radiocarbon Dating Allocation 1458.0310) Testing models of episodic, inner-shelf reef 'turn-on' and 'turn-off' events at regional and intra-reefal scales £18,720
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/H010092/1) Fish carbonates – their nature and fate within the marine inorganic carbon cycle. £501,634
- The Leverhulme Trust – International Research Network (F/00426/G) Development of a rapid carbonate budget assessment protocol for coral reefs . £93,619
Publications:
2014
2014
- Perry CT, Steneck RS, Murphy GN, Kench PS, Edinger EN, Smithers SG, Mumby PJ (in press) Regional-scale dominance of non-framework building corals on Caribbean reefs affects carbonate production and future reef growth. Global Change Biology
- Hepburn L.J., Blanchon P., Murphy G., Cousins L. and Perry C.T. (2014, in press) Community structure and paleoecological implications of calcareous encrusters on artificial substrates across a Mexican reef. Coral Reefs.
- Salter M.A., Perry C.T., Wilson R.W. (2014) Size fraction analysis of fish-derived carbonates in shallow sub-tropical marine environments and a potentially unrecognised origin for peloidal carbonates. Sedimentary Geology 314: 17–30
- Perry C.T., Murphy G.N., Kench P.S., Edinger E.N., Smithers S.G., Steneck R.S., Mumby P.J. (2014) Changing dynamics of Caribbean reef carbonate budgets: emergence of reef bioeroders as critical controls on present and future reef growth potential. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281: 20142018
- Roche R.C., Perry C.T., Smithers S.G., Leng M.J., Grove C.A., Sloane H.J. and Unsworth C. (2014) Mid-Holocene sea surface conditions and riverine influence on the inshore Great Barrier Reef. The Holocene. DOI: 10.1177/0959683614534739.
- Berkeley, A., Perry, C.T., Smithers S.G. and Hoon S. (2014) Towards a formal description of foraminiferal assemblage formation in near shore environments: qualitative and quantitative concepts. Marine Micropalaeontology 112: 27–38
- Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G., Kench P.S. and Pears B. (2014) Impacts of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi on nearshore, terrigenous sediment-dominated reefs of the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Geomorphology 222: 92-105.
- Browne N, Smithers S.G., Perry, C.T. (2013) Carbonate and terrigenous sediment budgets for inshore turbid reefs on the central Great Barrier Reef. Marine Geology 346: 101-123.
- Perry C.T., Smithers S.G. and Gulliver P. (2013) Rapid vertical accretion on a 'young' shore-detached turbid zone reef: Offshore Paluma Shoals, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia Coral Reefs 32: 1143-1148.
- Perry C.T., Kench P.S., Smithers S.G., Yamano H., O’Leary M. and Guilliver P. (2013) Timescales and modes of reef lagoon infilling in the Maldives and controls on the onset of reef island formation. Geology 41: 1111-1114.
- Kennedy EV, Perry CT, Halloran PR, Fine M, Carricart-Ganivet JP, Iglesias-Prieto R, Form A, Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Mumby PJ. (2013) Avoiding coral reef functional collapse requires combined local and global action. Current Biology 23: 912-918
- Perry C.T., Murphy G.N., Kench P.S., Smithers S.G., Edinger E.N., Steneck R.S. and Mumby P.J. (2013) Caribbean-wide decline in carbonate production threatens coral reef growth. Nature Communications. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2409
- Browne N, Smithers S.G., Perry, C.T. (2013) Spatial and temporal variations in turbidity on two inshore turbid reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs. 32: 195-210
- Salter M.A., Perry C.T. and Wilson R.W. (2012) Production of mud-grade carbonates by marine fish: crystalline products and their sedimentary significance. Sedimentology. 59: 2172-2198.
- Browne N, Smithers S.G., Perry, C.T. and Ridd P (2012) A field based technique for measuring sediment flux on coral reefs: application to turbid reefs on the Great Barrier Reef.Journal of Coastal Research. 28: 1247-1262.
- Browne N, Smithers S.G., Perry, C.T. (2012) Coral reefs of the turbid inner Great Barrier Reef: a geological perspective on occurrence, composition and growth. Earth-Science Reviews. 115: 1-20.
- Perry C.T., Edinger E.N., Kench, P.S., Mumby P.J., Murphy G., Steneck, R.S. and Smithers S.G. (2012) Estimating rates of biologically driven coral reef framework production and erosion: a new census-based carbonate budget methodology and applications to the reefs of Bonaire. Coral Reefs. 31: 853-868
- Perry C.T., Smithers S.G., Gulliver P. and Browne N. (2012) Evidence of very rapid reef accretion and reef growth under high turbidity and terrigenous sedimentation. Geology 40: 719-722.
- Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G., Roche, R. and Wassenburg, J. (2011) Recurrent patterns of coral community and sediment facies development through successive phases of Holocene reef growth and decline. Marine Geology 289: 60-71.
- Perry C.T., Kench P.S., O’Leary, M., Riegl, B.R., Smithers S.G. and Yamano H. (2011) Implications of reef ecosystem change for the stability and maintenance of coral reef islands? Global Change Biology 17: 3679-3696.
- Perry, C.T., Salter, M.A., Harborne, A.R., Crowley, S.F., Jelks H.J., Wilson, R.W., (2011) Fish as major carbonate mud producers and missing components of the tropical carbonate factory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 108: 3865-3869
- Roche, R., Abel, R.A., Johnson K.G., Perry C. T. (2011) Spatial variation in porosity and skeletal element characteristics in apical tips of the branching coral Acropora pulchra (Brook 1891). Coral Reefs 30: 195-201.
- Roche, R., Perry, C.T., Johnson, K.G., Saltana, K., Smithers, S.G., Thompson A.A, (2011) Mid-Holocene coral community data as a baseline for understanding contemporary reef ecological states. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 299: 159-167
- Perry, C.T. and Smithers, S.G (2011) Cycles of coral reef ‘turn-on’, rapid growth and ‘turn-off’ over the past 8,500 years: a context for understanding modern ecological states and trajectories. Global Change Biology 17: 76-86
- Roche, R., Abel, R.A., Johnson K.G., Perry C. T. (2010) Quantification of porosity in Acropora pulchra (Brook 1891) using X-ray micro-computed tomography techniques. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 396: 1-9.
- O’Leary M. and Perry C.T. (2010) Holocene reef accretion on the Rodrigues carbonate platform: an alternative to the classic ‘bucket-fill’ model. Geology 38: 855-858.
- Palmer, S.E., Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G. and Gulliver, P. (2010) Internal structure and accretionary history of a Holocene nearshore, turbid-zone coral reef: Paluma Shoals, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Geology 276: 14-29.
- Browne, N., Smithers, S.G. and Perry, C.T. (2010) Geomorphology and community structure of Middle Reef, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia: an inner-shelf turbid zone reef subjected to episodic mortality events. Coral Reefs 26: 683-689.
- Perry, C.T. and Smithers, S.G (2010) Evidence for the episodic 'turn-on' and ‘turn-off' of turbid-zone, inner-shelf coral reefs during the late Holocene sea-level highstand. Geology 38: 119-122.
- Berkeley, A., Perry C.T. & Smithers S.G. (2009) Taphonomic signatures and patterns of test degradation on tropical, intertidal benthic foraminifera. Marine Micropalaeontology 73: 148-163.
- Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G. and Johnson, K.G. (2009) Long-term coral community records from Lugger Shoal on the terrigenous inner-shelf of the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs 28: 941-948.
- O’Leary, M.J., Perry, C.T., Turner, J. and Beavington-Penney, S.J. (2009) The significant role of sediment bio-retexturing within a contemporary carbonate platform system: implications for carbonate microfacies development. Sedimentary Geology 219: 169-179.
- Perry, C.T. and Smithers, S.G. (2009) Stabilisation of intertidal cobbles and gravels by Goniastrea aspera: an analogue for substrate colonisation during marine transgressions? Coral Reefs 28: 805-806.
- Berkeley, A., Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G., Horton, B.P. & Cundy, A.B. (2009) Foraminiferal biofacies across mangrove-mudflat environments at Cocoa Creek, north Queensland, Australia. Marine Geology 263: 64-86.
- Perry C.T. & Berkeley, A. (2009) Intertidal substrate modification as a result of mangrove planting: impacts of introduced mangrove species on sediment microfacies characteristics. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 81: 225-237.
- Perry, C.T., Spencer, T. & Kench, P. (2008) Carbonate budgets and reef production states: a geomorphic perspective on the ecological phase-shift concept. Coral Reefs 27: 853-866.
Berkeley, A., Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G. & Horton, B.P. (2008) The spatial and vertical distribution of living (stained) benthic foraminifera from a tropical, intertidal environment, north Queensland, Australia. Marine Micropalaeontology. 69: 240-261 - Perry, C.T., Smithers S.G., Palmer, S.E., Larcombe, P. and Johnson, K.G., (2008) A 1200 year paleoecological record of coral community development from the terrigenous inner-shelf of the Great Barrier Reef. Geology 36: 691-694.
- Perry, C.T., Berkeley, A. and Smithers, S.G. (2008) Microfacies characteristics of a tropical, mangrove-fringed shoreline, Cleveland Bay, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia: mangrove sequence development and facies preservation. Journal of Sedimentary Research 78: 77-97.
- Perry C.T. and Hepburn L.J. (2008) Syn-depositional alteration of coral reef framework through bioerosion, encrustation and cementation: taphonomic signatures of reef accretion and reef depositional events. Earth Science Reviews 86: 106-144.
- Taylor, K.G., Perry, C.T., Greenaway, A and Machent, P (2007) Bacterial iron oxide reduction in a terrigenous sediment-impacted tropical shallow marine carbonate system, north Jamaica. Marine Chemistry 107, 449-463.
- Berkeley, A., Perry C.T., Smithers, S.G., Horton B. and Taylor K.G. (2007) A review of the ecological and taphonomic controls on foraminiferal assemblage development in intertidal environments. Earth Science Reviews. 83, 205-230.
- Mallela J. and Perry C.T. (2007) Calcium carbonate budgets for two coral reefs affected by different terrestrial runoff regimes, Rio Bueno, Jamaica. Coral Reefs. 26: 129-145.
- Perry, C.T. and Smithers S.G. (2006) Taphonomic signatures of turbid-zone reef development: examples from Paluma Shoals and Lugger Shoal, inshore central Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 242: 1-20.
- Perry C.T. and Taylor K.G. (2006) Inhibition of dissolution within shallow water carbonate sediments: impacts of Fe-rich terrigenous sediment input on syn-depositional carbonate diagenesis. Sedimentology 53, 495-513.
- Perry, C.T., Taylor K.G. and Machent P. (2006) Temporal shifts in reef lagoon sediment composition, Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 67: 133-144.
- Hewins, M. and Perry, C.T. (2006) Bathymetric and environmentally-influenced patterns of carbonate sediment accumulation in three contrasting reef settings, Danjugan Island, Philippines. Journal of Coastal Research. 22: 812-824.
- Harborne A.R., Mumby, P.J., Micheli F., Perry, C.T., Dahlgren C.P., Holmes, K.E. and Brumbaugh D.R. (2006) The functional value of Caribbean coral reef, seagrass and mangrove habitats to ecosystem processes. Advances in Marine Biology. 50: 57-189.
- Hepburn, L., Perry, C.T., Blanchon, P. (2006) Distribution of macroborers in reef rubble, Puerto Morelos reef, Mexican Caribbean. Proceedings of 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa, Japan. 327-334.
- Perry C.T. (2005) Morphology and occurrence of rhodoliths in siliciclastic, intertidal environments from a high latitude reef setting, southern Mozambique. Coral Reefs 24: 201-207
- Macdonald I.A., Perry, C.T. and Larcombe P. (2005) Comment on “Rivers, runoff, and reefs” by MacLaughlin et al. [Global and Planetary Change 39 (2003) 191-199]. Global and Planetary Change 45: 333-337.
- Perry C.T. and Beavington-Penney S.J. (2005) Epiphytic calcium carbonate production and facies development within sub-tropical seagrass beds, Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Sedimentary Geology 174: 161-176.
- Perry C.T. (2005) Structure and development of detrital reef deposits in turbid nearshore environments, Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Marine Geology 214: 143-161.
- Taylor K.G. and Perry C.T. (2005) Impacts of Fe-rich sediment input upon chemical diagenesis of shallow marine tropical carbonates: Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, A134-A134 Suppl. S.
- Mallela J., Perry, C.T. and Haley, M. (2004) Reef morphology and community structure along a fluvial gradient, Rio Bueno, Jamaica. Journal of Caribbean Science. 40: 299-311.
- Perry C.T. and Taylor K.G. (2004) Impacts of bauxite sediment inputs on a carbonate-dominated embayment, Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Journal of Coastal Research 20: 1070-1079.
- Blanchon P. and Perry C.T. (2004) Taphonomic differentiation of Acropora palmata facies in cores from Campeche-Bank reefs, Gulf of Mexico. Sedimentology 51: 53-76.
- Perry C.T. and Larcombe P. (2003) Marginal and non-reef building coral environments. Coral Reefs 22: 427-432.
- Perry C.T. (2003) Coral reefs in a siliciclastic barrier island settings: reef development and associated carbonate production at Inhaca Island, southern Mozambique. Coral Reefs 22: 485-497.
- Macdonald I.A. and Perry C.T. (2003) Biological degradation of coral framework in a turbid lagoon environment, Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Coral Reefs 22: 523-535.
- Perry C.T. (2003) Reef development at Inhaca Island, Mozambique: coral communities and impacts of the 1999/2000 southern African floods. Ambio. 32: 133-139.
- Perry C.T. and Macdonald I.A. (2002) Impacts of reduced light penetration on the bathymetry of reef microboring communities: implications for the development and analysis of microendolithic trace assemblages, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 186: 101-113.
- Perry C.T. (2002) Long-term records of storm deposition and coral reef community response from a late Pleistocene reef on Barbados. Proceedings of 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali. 1: 193-198.
- Crook, N.P., Hoon, S.R., Taylor, K.G. & Perry, C.T. (2002) Electron spin resonance as a high sensitivity technique for environmental magnetism: determination of contamination in carbonate sediments, Geophysical Journal, 149: 328-337.
- Perry C.T. (2001) Storm-induced coral rubble deposition: Pleistocene records of natural reef disturbance and community response. Coral Reefs, 20: 171-183.
- Perry C.T. (2000). Macroboring of Pleistocene coral communities, Falmouth Formation, Jamaica. Palaios, 15: 483-491.
- Perry C.T. (2000). Factors controlling sediment preservation on a north Jamaican fringing reef: a process based approach to microfacies analysis. Jnl of Sedimentary Research, 70: 633-648.
- Perry C.T. (1999). Biofilm-related calcification, sediment trapping and constructive micrite envelopes: a criterion for the recognition of ancient grass bed environments. Sedimentology, 46: 33-45.
- Perry C.T. (1999). Reef framework preservation in four contrasting modern reef environments, Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Jnl of Coastal Research, 15: 796-812.
- Perry C.T. (1998). Grain susceptibility to the effects of microboring: implications for the preservation of skeletal carbonates. Sedimentology, 45: 39-51.
- Perry C.T. (1998). Macroborers within coral framework at Discovery Bay, north Jamaica: species distribution and abundance, and effects on coral preservation. Coral Reefs, 17: 277-287.
- Perry C.T. (1996). Distribution and abundance of macroborers in an upper Miocene reef system, Mallorca, Spain: implications for reef development and framework destruction. Palaios, 11: 40-56.
- Perry C.T. (1996). The rapid response of reef sediments to changes in community structure: implications for time-averaging and sediment accumulation. Jnl of Sedimentary Research: 66, 459-467.
- Perry C.T. (1995). Variations in bioerosion across a Miocene reef system, Mallorca, Spain: a potential palaeoenvironmental tool and more. In: Lathuiliere B and Geister J (eds). Coral Reefs in the Past, Present and Future, International Society for Reef Studies, 203-210.
- Perry C.T. (1994). Freshwater tufa stromatolites in the basal Purbeck Formation (Upper Jurassic), Isle of Portland, Dorset. Geological Journal, 29: 119-135.