Dr. William Loh is a free-lance educator, marine & molecular biologist, naturalist and study-abroad programs manager, based in Brisbane, Australia.  He has worked as a researcher and educator in science and humanities faculties of The University of Sydney, University of Queensland, Bond University, Queensland University of Technology, and the University of the Ryukyus (Japan). He has taught marine biology, terrestrial biology, ecology, botany, Australian history and culture, and Australian Aboriginal culture.

He has extensive experience in teaching, managing and administering education programs of American, Japanese and German university and high school student groups visiting Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. At the University of Queensland, he was contracted to teach and lead courses for study abroad groups from Stanford University, Hobart William Smith College, Union College, and combined University of California campuses. He has organized and led programs in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji for the University of Goettingen (Germany) and for International Studies Abroad/Long Island University (Post Campus)/Bowling Green State University.

William Loh is a current researcher and has studied a diversity of topics including marine microbiology, genetics, coral reefs, seagrass, fishes, invertebrates and climate change.  He has authored over twenty peer-reviewed scientific research articles published in international journals and supervised several undergraduate, postgraduate and intern students.  He has traveled extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Japan, the USA, South East Asia, southern Africa and other parts of the world, having interests in travel and nature photography. He speaks three languages (English, Malay/Indonesian and Cantonese Chinese).

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List of publications
Loh, W.K.W., Bond, P., Ashton, K.J., Roberts, D.T., Tibbetts, I.R. (2014).DNA barcoding of Lake Wivenhoe freshwater fishes and the development of a quantitative real-time PCR assay for the species-specific detection and quantification of fish larvae from plankton samples. Journal of Fish Biology 85, 7-28. Online DOI:10.1111/jfb.12422
Dreier, A., Loh, W., Blumenberg, M., Volker, T., Hause-Reitner, D., Hoppert, M. (2014). The isotopic biosignatures of photo-vs. Thiotrophic bivalves: are they preserved in fossil shells? Geobiology 12, 406–423. Online DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12093
Roberts, D.T., Mallet, S., Krück, N.C., Loh, W., Tibbetts, I.R. (2014). Spawning activity of the Australian lungfish Neoceratodus forsteri in an impoundment. Journal of Fish Biology 84, 163-177. Online DOI:10.1111/jfb.12264
Krück, N.C., Tibbetts, I.R., Ward, R.D., Johnson, J.W., Loh, W.K.W., Ovenden, J.R. (2013). Multi-gene barcoding to discriminate sibling species within a morphologically difficult fish genus (Sillago). Fisheries Research 143, 39-46. Online DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2013.01.007
Budarf, A.C., Burfeind D.D., Loh, W.K.W., Tibbetts, I.R. (2011) DNA barcoding for the identification of herbaceous gut contents of Siganus fuscescens. Journal of Fish Biology 79, 112–121
Stat M., Loh, W.K.W, Hoegh-Guldberg, O. Carter, D.A.(2008). Symbiont acquisition strategy drives host–symbiont associations in the southern Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 27:763-772. Online DOI 10.1007/s00338-008-0412-5
LaJeunesse, T.C., Loh, W.K.W., Trench, R.K. (2008). Do introduced endosymbiotic dinoflagellates ‘take’ to new hosts? Biological Invasions 11:995-1003. Online DOI 10.1007/s10530-008-9311-5
Schönberg C.H.L., R. Suwa, M. Hidaka, W.K.W. Loh (2008). Coral and sponge dinoflagellates studied with pulse amplitude modulated fluorometry. Special issue Marine Ecology 29:1-12
Maria del Carmen Gómez-Cabrera, Juan-Carlos Ortiz, William K.W. Loh, Selina Ward, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (2008) Acquisition of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium) by juveniles of the coral Acropora longicyathus. Coral Reefs 27:219-226 Online DOI 10.1007/s00338-007-0315-x
Mostafavi, PG, Fatemi, SMR, Shahhosseiny, M, Hoegh-Guldberg, O, Loh, WKW (2007) Predominance of clade D Symbiodinium in shallow-water reef-building corals off Kish and Larak Islands (Persian Gulf, Iran). Marine Biology 153: 25-34 Online DOI 10.1007/s00227-007-0796-8
Klueter A, Loh WKW, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Dove S (2006) Physiological and Genetic Properties of Two Fluorescent Colour Morphs of the Coral Montipora digitata. Symbiosis 42:123-134
Loh WKW, Cowlishaw M, Wilson NG (2006) Diversity of Symbiodinium dinoflagellate symbionts from the Indo-Pacific sea slug Pteraeolidia ianthina(Gastropoda: Mollusca). Marine Ecology Progress Series 320:177-184
Schönberg CH and Loh WKW (2005) Molecular identity of the unique symbiotic dinoflagellates found in the bioeroding demosponge Cliona orientalis Thiele, 1900. Marine Ecology Progress Series 299: 157-166
Moore RB, Ferguson KM, Loh, WKW, Hoegh-Guldberg O and Carter DA (2003) Highly organised structure in the non-coding region of the psbA minicircle from clade C Symbiodinium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1725-1734
LaJeunesse TC, Loh WKW, van Woesik R, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Schmidt GW, Fitt WK (2003) Low symbiont diversity in southern Great Barrier reef corals relative to those of the Caribbean. Limnology and Oceanography. 48: 2046–2054
Loh W, Hidaka M, Hirose M and Titlyanov EA (2002). Genotypic diversity of symbiotic dinoflagellates associated with hermatypic corals from a fringing reef at Sesoko Island, Okinawa. Galaxea 4:1-9
Hoegh-Guldberg O, Jones RJ, Ward S and Loh, WK. (2002). Ecology (Communication arising): Is coral bleaching really adaptive? Nature 415: 601-602.
Loh, WKW, Loi T, Carter, D and Hoegh Guldberg O. (2001). Genetic variability of the symbiotic dinoflagellates from the wide ranging coral species, Seriatopora hystrix and Acropora longicyathus, in the Indo-West Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 222:97-107.
Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Loh W, Carter, D and Hoegh Guldberg O (2001). Latitudinal variability in symbiont specificity within the widespread coral Plesiastrea versipora. Marine Biology 138:1175-1181.
Takabayashi, M, Carter, DA, Loh, W and Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (1998).A coral-specific primer for PCR amplification of the internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA. Molecular Ecology. 7(7):928-930.
Loh, W, Carter, DA and Hoegh-Guldberg, O (1998) Diversity of zooxanthellae from scleractinian corals of One Tree Island (The Great Barrier Reef). In:Greenwood, J.G. & Hall, N.J., eds. Proceedings of Australian Coral Reef
Society 75th Anniversary Conference Heron Island October 1997. School of Marine Science , the University of Queensland, Brisbane. pp. 141-150.
Loh, WKW and Duxbury T (1990). Where the Sun don’t Shine. Todays Life Science. November, 70-74.