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B.Sc. and Ph.D., University of London
Biology
Hamilton University
United States of America
Simon Coppard specializes in echinoderms: sea urchins, sea stars and sea cucumbers. He particularly specializes in how species have diverged morphologically, ecologically and genetically through time, and how species maintain their integrity when geographic distributions change and sister-species come into contact. For the past six years he has been a senior research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Coppard's research there included work on transcriptomics and the evolution and expression of genes responsible for temporal reproductive isolation among species that spawn on different lunar phases. He's conducted fieldwork and taught at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Coppard earned his bachelor's of science (honors) and doctorate in marine biology from the University of London.