Steve O'Shea
Steve O'Shea is a marine biologist and environmentalist known for his research on giant squid.
O'Shea obtained his degrees from Auckland university. He undertook a Bachelor of Science between 1984 and 1988. He graduated with an M.Sc. in 1990. The title of his 1998 doctoral thesis was New Zealand Octopoda : systematics. He began work with the giant squid whilst working for the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand in 1996. He became the Director of the Earth and Oceanic Sciences Research Institute at the Auckland University of Technology in 2005, and was a Discovery Channel Quest Scholar. In 2009 he resigned from his Discovery Quest position to focus his research on coastal conservation, environmental matters and postgraduate supervision and teaching; despite this he has remained active in squid research, but is best known for his involvement with large cephalopod taxa, particularly giant and colossal squids, and their preservation. In 2011 he resigned from his position at the Auckland University of Technology.
O'Shea has published extensively on cephalopods, fisheries, whale diet and shallow subtidal coastal ecology. He presently resides in Sydney.