Dr Jonathan DALY

Conservation Biologist, Taronga Conservation Society Australia

Dr Jonathan Daly is an aquatic cryobiology specialist at the Taronga Conservation Society Australia, where he leads the Cryopreservation Sub-program as part of the federally-funded Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program. From 2016 to 2020 he was a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Smithsonian Institution based at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology. He has more than 18 years’ experience in cryopreservation in aquatic species and has worked on cryopreservation of coral gametes, larvae, symbionts, and fragments since 2016 in Australia, Hawaii, French Polynesia, and the Caribbean. Dr Daly has led coral biobanking activities in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park since 2016 and is a world leader in the development of advanced cryopreservation technologies for coral reef species. He is co-chair of the CRC Working Group on Coral Cryopreservation and Repository Building.