Dr Dhugal Lindsay is a marine scientist based in Yokosuka, Knagawa Prefecture, Japan.

He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts (1992) from UQ, and received his PhD in aquatic biology from the University of Tokyo (1998).

A research scientist with the Japan Marine Science & Technology Centre (JAMSTEC), Japan's premier oceanographic research station, Dr Lindsay has become a leader in developing new methodologies associated with state-of-the-art, crewed submersibles and remotely operated vehicles.

He has also been successful in studying deep-sea animals and in developing a greater understanding of the ecology of deep-sea communities. His research focuses on mid-water ecology, particularly concentrating on gelatinous organisms too fragile to be sampled by conventional methods.

The multi-talented Dr Lindsay is also one of Japan's most accomplished and celebrated young haiku poets. Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry, well-known in the English-speaking nations in translation.

Dr Lindsay's achievement is a prize-winning poet in the Japanese language. He is the first non-Japanese writer to win the annual Nakaniida Grand Haiku Prize. His first published collection of 290 haiku poems, Mutsugoro (The Mudskipper), contained a deep understanding of haiku's main themes of nature and the seasons.

In 2003, he was named UQ's Young Alumnus of the Year.