Peter L. Harrison
Peter L. Harrison is an Australian marine biologist and ecologist. He is a Distinguished Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and the founding director of the Marine Ecology Research Centre. His specialty is coral reproduction ecology and larval restoration. Coral spawning research 
While conducting his PhD at James Cook University in Townsville in 1981, Harrison worked with a small group of other PhD researchers that first discovered the phenomenon known as Mass Coral Spawning. This occurred following detailed monitoring of hundreds of corals and during night dives at Magnetic Island where the team observed millions of coral sperm and eggs filling the waters around them in a synchronized mass multi-species spawning event. This discovery was the first scientific documentation of a mass coral spawning event, and Harrison and the team published their first paper on the occurrence three years later in 1984. His current major research focus is coral and reef restoration and developing larger-scale coral larval restoration projects using millions of coral larvae to restore damaged reefs in the Philippines and on the Great Barrier Reef. Recognition 
Harrison and the team were awarded a Eureka Prize for Environmental Research in 1992 for their discovery of mass coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef. Harrison led a United Nations funded mission to assess the impacts of the first Gulf War on the coral reefs of Kuwait, and has a new coral species discovered in the Arabian Gulf named after him (Porites Harrisoni). Peter has been appointed to the Australian Government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee. A sculpture of Peter Harrison was created by Jason deCaires Taylor for the Museum of Underwater Art as part of the Ocean Sentinels above the surface exhibition in 2022. Publications 
Harrison has published over 200 scientific research papers, reports and books. His work has been cited almost 15,000 times. References

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of Southern Cross University
James Cook University alumni
Australian ecologists
Australian marine biologists