Richard Ellis is the Steele Professor of Astronomy and Director, Caltech Optical Observatories, at the California Institute of Technology.

External link

• http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~rse/ Richard Ellis's Homepage at Caltech.

Richard Ellis is a marine biologist. He is a research associate in the American Museum of Natural History's division of paleontology, special adviser to the American Cetacean Society, and a member of the Explorers Club. He was U.S. delegate to International Whaling Commission.

He is also an author and painter. His murals can be seen in the Denver Museum of Natural History, the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, and Whaleworld, a museum in Albany, Western Australia. He has written 16 books, including No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species, Sea Dragons: Predators of Prehistoric Seas, and The Empty Ocean, and has published numerous magazine articles.