Stephen C. Maberly is a Fellow of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, UK. His research has included ecological studies of inland waters and their response to ecological pressures, and physiological experiments on the carbon acquisition mechanisms of their phytoplankton and macrophytes and also those of marine algae and seagrasses. He has published 180 papers and book chapters and 130 publications or reports for the general public and environmental managers. He received the Luigi Provasoli Award from the Phycological Society of America (1992).