Mike Elliott

Prof. Mike Elliott, Emeritus Professor in Estuarine & Coastal Sciences, Research Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, The University of Hull, UK; and Director, International Estuarine & Coastal Specialists Ltd (https://www.iecs.ltd); URL https://www.hull.ac.uk/staff-directory/mike-elliott(opens in new tab/window).

Mike is the Director of International Estuarine & Coastal Specialists (IECS) Ltd and also the Emeritus Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. He was Director of the former Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies (IECS) at the university from 1996-2017. He is a marine biologist with a wide experience and interests and his teaching, research, advisory and consultancy includes estuarine and marine ecology, policy, governance and management. Mike has published widely, co-authoring/co-editing 20 books/proceedings and >350 scientific publications. This includes co-authoring 'The Estuarine Ecosystem: ecology, threats and management' (with DS McLusky, OUP, 2004), 'Ecology of Marine Sediments: science to management' (with JS Gray, OUP, 2009), and ‘Estuarine Ecohydrology: an introduction’ (with E Wolanski, Elsevier, 2015). He was an editor and contributor to the ‘Coasts and Estuaries: the Future’ (Wolanski, Day, Elliott and Ramachandran; Elsevier, 2019), Fish and Fisheries in Estuaries (Whitfield, Able, Blaber & Elliott; Wiley, 2022) and the Treatise on Estuarine & Coastal Science (Eds.-In-Chief - E Wolanski & DS McLusky, Elsevier). He has advised on many environmental matters for academia, industry, government and statutory bodies worldwide. Mike is a past-President of the international Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) and is now Vice-Chair of Future Earth Coasts and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science; he currently is or has had Adjunct Professor and Research positions at Murdoch University (Perth), Klaipeda University (Lithuania), the University of Palermo (Italy), Xiamen University (China) and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. He was awarded Laureate of the Honorary Winberg Medal 2014 of the Russian Hydrobiological Academic Society. Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award of ECSA, September 2022. He is also a member of many national and international committees linking marine science to policy.

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PROFESSOR MICHAEL ELLIOTT BSc (Hons, Lond.), PhD (Stirling), FRSB, CBiol., FRGS, FMBA.

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56433780300 H index: 64; Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=lkQOy_UAAAAJ&hl=en H index 83, i10 index 228; citations >28,000. Web of Science H index 58; ORCID ID 0000-0002-2519-4871;

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Calculated as the top-ranking author in Environmental Policy for 2011-2020: see https://expertscape.com/ex/environmental+policy(opens in new tab/window)

Calculated as being the highest or among the highest cited author in various journals and years – see https://exaly.com/author/3602052/michael-elliott/rankings