Dr. De’ath is a Principal Research Scientist, biostatistician and ecological modeller at AIMS. His interests lie in the development of statistical and mathematical models and their application to complex biotic and environmental data. He has been intimately involved with the establishment of water quality guidelines, the regionalisation and rezoning of the GBR, the re-design of the AIMS Long Term Monitoring Program to assess the effects of the rezoning, and the development of the e-Atlas.