Prof. Anthony Cheshire has worked for the last 25 years as a marine ecologist and environmental scientist including roles in private industry, government, and the higher education sector.

Anthony is the Principal of Science to Manage Uncertainty a business established to provide commercial science management and advisory services to research providers, government and industry in Australia and across the SE Asian region. Over the last twelve years he has held a number of executive management roles including as Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Adelaide, as Chief Scientist (Aquatic Sciences) with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and as Director of Research and Development (SARDI).

Anthony holds a number of key positions including as a Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Environmental Biotechnology and Executive Chair of Balance Carbon Pty Ltd. More recently he has accepted roles as a member of a number of Ministerial Advisory Committees including as a member of the SA Natural Resource Management Council, Deputy Presiding Member of the SA Marine Parks Council, Chair of the SA Fisheries Research Advisory Board and Chair of the Scientific Working Group for Marine Parks and Marine Planning.  Anthony is a member of a range of science based professional associations and is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Continuing on from a successful career as a marine scientist Anthony continues to work with key partners in the higher education sector and holds an affiliate position as Professor with the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide and an adjunct position as Professor with the School of Biological Sciences at Flinders University.

Anthony's major research interests include the development of field methods and models to better understand environmental impacts in marine coastal systems. He has spent much of the last 15 years working in both Australia and SE Asia in the development of rapid assessment methodologies to support environmental impact assessments of coastal systems and thereby to support the development of more effective systems for environmental management. More recently Prof. Cheshire has been working to develop molecular tools to detect environmental impacts associated with finfish aquaculture.