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Michel PICHON, Biological Oceanographer, University Professor, is an expert on coral reefs, which he has studied for more than 48 years. He was research leader of several coral reefs research teams, operating in most major reef areas in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean (Mascarenes, Comoros, Madagascar (Thesis), Maldives and the seas around Arabia), and in the Pacific Ocean.He has been based for more than 22 years in Australia, first at James Cook University, Townsville, then as Deputy Director, Australian Institute of Marine Science. He then did work principally on the Great Barrier Reef, with his students and Australian colleagues, but also elsewhere in the Pacific in cooperation with American and Japanese teams. He has published more than one hundred scientific papers in international scientific journals, mostly on coral reefs, and four books on the reef corals of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. He is a board member of the International Society for Reef Studies.He now lives in Australia, where he is a Tropical Marine Consultant and Honorary Research Associate at the Museum of Tropical Queensland, in Townsville.

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	Morphology and ecology of the deep fore reef slope at Osprey Reef (Coral Sea) | article Sarano FF, Pichon MM (1988) Proc 6th Int Coral Reef Symp 2:607-611
	Lower mesophotic coral communities (60-125 m depth) of the Northern Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea | article Englebert N, Bongaerts P, Muir PR, Hay KB, Pichon M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2017) PLoS ONE 12:e0170336
	Acropora tenella, a zooxanthellate coral extending to 110-m depth in the northern Coral Sea | article Muir PR, Pichon M, Squire L, Wallace CC (2018) Mar Biodiv
	High species richness and lineage diversity of reef corals in the mesophotic zone | article Muir PR, Wallace CC, Pichon, Bongaerts P (2018) Proc R Soc B
	Biodiversity of Reef-Building, Scleractinian Corals | chapter Muir PR, Pichon M (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Coral Reefs of the World (Springer) by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
	French Polynesia | chapter Pichon M (2019) in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
	Extension of the known distribution of the scleractinian coral Leptoseris troglodyta to the southwestern Indian Ocean: new record from mesophotic c... | article Pichon M, Rouzé H, Barathieu G, Konieczny O, Adjeroud M, Thomassin B (2020) Bull Mar Sci 96:783-784
	Symbiotic associations of the deepest recorded photosynthetic scleractinian coral (172 m depth) | article Rouzé H, Galand PE, Medina M, Bongaerts P, Pichon M, Pérez-Rosales G, Torda G, Moya A, Under The Pole Consortium, Raina J-B, Hédouin L (2021) ISME J
	Mesophotic depths hide high coral cover communities in French Polynesia | article Pérez-Rosales G, Hernández-Agreda A, Bongaerts P, Rouzé H, Pichon M, Carlot J, Torda G, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2022) Science of The Total Environment
	Mesophotic coral ecosystems of French Polynesia are hotspots of alpha and beta generic diversity for scleractinian assemblages | article Pérez-Rosales G, Pichon M, Rouzé H, Villéger S, Torda G, Bongaerts P, Carlot J, Under The Pole Consortium, Parravicini V, Hédouin L (2022) Diversity and Distributions 28: 1391–1403
	Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths | article Gijsbers JC, Englebert N, Prata KE, Pichon M, Dinesen Z, Dinesen Z, Brunner R, Eyal G, González-Zapata FL, Kahng SE, Latijnhouwers KR, Muir P (2023) BMC Biology 21:147
	Differential strategies developed by two light-dependent scleractinian corals to extend their vertical range to mesophotic depths | article Pérez-Rosales G, Rouzé H, Pichon M, Bongaerts P, Bregere N, Carlot J, Parravicini V, Hedouin L, Under The Pole Consortium (2024) Coral Reefs