Corals of the World 3 Volumes w/ Slipcase AS NEW

Townsville, Queensland: Australian Institute of Marine Science, 2000. First Impression. Hardcovers. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folios, [30cm/12inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xi, 463; viii, 429 & viii, 490, indexed (by volume). Illustrated with colour plates, b-w halftones, maps scematics &tc.. Set weighs 16 lbs. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... John Veron (1945 -), credited in research as J. E. N. Veron, and in other writing as Charlie Veron was the chief scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and he has many professional awards including the Scientific Diving Lifetime Achievement Award (American Academy of Underwater Sciences), the Darwin Medal (International Society for Reef Studies) and the Silver Jubilee Pin (Australian Marine Sciences Association). He has named about 20% of reef corals and built a taxonomic framework for corals that is used throughout the world. He founded the Orpheus Island Marine Station. He discovered and delineated the Coral Triangle. He introduced the concept of reticulate evolution to the marine world. Was the first full-time researcher on the Great Barrier Reef (1972) and the first scientist employed by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (1974). Has participated in 67 expeditions to all the major reef provinces in the world. Since 2008 he together with three colleagues have been producing an open access website about coral taxonomy, biogeography and identification: www.coralsoftheworld.org This website includes the mapping program Coral Geographic and identification program (CoralID). Has campaigned extensively on climate change, mass bleaching of coral reefs, ocean acidification and related environmental issues. His published oeuvre includes Scleractinia of Eastern Australia (five volumes with co-authors, Australian Institute of Marine Science), (1976-1984), Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific (Hawaii University Press), (1986), Corals in Space and Time (Cornell University Press), (1995), Hermatypic corals of Japan (with Moritaka Nishihira, in Japanese), (1995), A Reef in Time: the Great Barrier Reef from Beginning to End (Harvard University Press), (2008), and A Life Underwater (Penguin Random House), (2017)