ProfessorWILLIAMS, Gray A

Director of SWIMS and Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU

BSc (Manchester, UK) PhD (Bristol, UK)

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2299 0604
2559 9114
KBSB 3S-02

Teaching Areas

Marine Biology
Experimental ecology
Experiential fieldcourses
Environmental Management

Research Interests

Ecology, with focus on intertidal ecology
Ecophysiology
Behavioural ecology of invertebrates

Current Research

Intertidal ecology of SE Asia
Thermal biology and physiology of intertidal species
Adaptation and acclimation of species to climate change

Research Team

Dr Sam Crickenberger
Dr Tommy Hui
Ms Sarah LAU Lok Yee
Ms Alicia TAN
Mr Adrian WONG

Fellowships

2015-2018 UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SAO PAULO / UNIFESP, BRAZIL, CNPq, Brazilian Government - Senior Visiting Fellowship
2014 Northeastern University, USA - Visiting Research Professor
2013 Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil - Visting Researcher in Marine Ecology
2010 to date XIAMEN UNIVERSITY, CHINA - Guest Professor
1999 THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK - Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences.
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK - Universitas 21 Fellow, School of Biological Sciences.
1997 THE UNIVERSITY OF FIRENZE, ITALY - Visiting Professor, The Department of Animal Biology and Genetics.

Publications and News

TY HUI & GA WILLIAMS Experience matter: context dependant decisions explain foraging patterns in the deposit feeding crab Scopimera intermedia. 2018 Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:**
Y-W DONG, LI X-X, FMP CHOI, WILLIAMS GA, SOMERO G HELMUTH BS 2017 Untangling the roles of microclimate, behavior and physiological polymorphism in governing vulnerability of intertidal snails to heat stress. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284: **
BS HELMUTH, BD RUSSELL, SD CONNELL, Y-W DONG, CD HARLEY, F LIMA, SARÁ, GA WILLIAMS and N MIESZKOWSKA 2014 Beyond long-term averages: Making biological sense of a rapidly changing world. Climate Change Responses 1, 6
G SANTINI, A NGAN, MT BURROWS, G CHELAZZI and GA WILLIAMS (2014) What drives foraging behaviour of the intertidal limpet Cellana grata? A quantitative test of a dynamic optimization model. Functional Ecology 28: 963–972
WILLIAMS GA, De PIRRO M, CARTWRIGHT SR, KHANGURA HK, NG WC, LEUNG TY and MORRITT D 2011. Come rain or shine: the combined effects of physical stresses on physiological and protein-level responses of an intertidal limpet in the monsoonal tropics, Functional Ecology, 25: 101-110
MARSHALL DJ, MCQUAID CD and WILLIAMS GA 2010 Non-climatic thermal adaptation: implications for species' responses to climate warming, Biol. Lets, 6: 669-673
LITTLE, C, WILLIAMS, GA and C TROWBRIDGE 2009 The Biology of Rocky shores 2nd ed The biology of habitats series: Oxford University Press
WILLIAMS, GA, M De PIRRO, KMY LEUNG and D MORRITT 2005 Physiological responses to heat stress in a tropical limpet, Cellana grata: the benefits of mushrooming behaviour. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 292: 213-224
WILLIAMS, GA, MS DAVIES, and S NAGARKAR 2000 Primary succession on a seasonal tropical rocky shore: relative roles of spatial heterogeneity and herbivory. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 203:81-94
WILLIAMS, GA and D MORRITT 1995 Habitat partitioning and thermal tolerance in a tropical limpet, Cellana grata. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 124: 89-103