Anne Hoggett - Australian Museum

Staff profile:Dr Anne Hoggett

Position title:: Director, Lizard Island Research Station
Branch:: Research
Division:: Research & Collections
Phone:: +617 4060 3977
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Anne is from Sydney, where she completed her BSc(Hons) in Zoology at the University of New South Wales in 1978. She found her niche as a taxonomist in the echinoderm department of the Australian Museum. Her first visit to Lizard Island was in 1982 to collect specimens for the Museum and to assist with Lyle Vail's PhD research project. She began her own PhD on systematics of the brittlestar family Ophiotrichidae in 1986 at the University of Queensland through the University College of the Northern Territory, and was awarded the degree in 1991.