Steve o shea biography examples

New Zealand marine biologist

Steve O'Shea (born 14 December 1965 in Auckland, New Zealand)^[1] is a marine biologist and environmentalist known for his research on giant squid.^[2][3]

O'Shea obtained his degrees from Auckland university.

He undertook a Bachelor of Science between 1984 and 1988. He graduated with an M.Sc. in 1990.^[4] The title of his 1998 doctoral thesis was New Zealand Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) : systematics.^[5] He began work with the giant squid whilst working for the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand in 1996.^[4] He became the Director of the Earth and Oceanic Sciences Research Institute at the Auckland University of Technology in 2005,^[6] and was a Discovery Channel Quest Scholar.^[4] In 2009 he resigned from his Discovery Quest position to focus his research on coastal conservation, environmental matters and postg