In this podcast, they discuss :
• Gretta’s passion for effective science communication and community engagement
• Gretta’s involvement in various projects; Curious Climate, Future Seas and Redmap
• The immense scope and scale of the latest IPCC sixth assessment report
• The increased certainty of climate science findings
• The key takeaways from the latest IPCC report
• Relevant findings and adaptation limits for the Australasian region
• The need to focus on disaster resilience in addition to recovery
• The difference between mitigation and adaptation actions, and why we need both
• The importance of grounded hope and individual actions

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Is the climate problem so big, you don't know where to start, or what to do? Do you want to contribute to the sustainable future of our planet?  Find out from our experts how you can make a difference in this online seminar.

Host:
Gretta Pecl, Director, Centre for Marine Socioecology and ARC Future Fellow, University of Tasmania

Speakers:
• Professor Martin Grimmer, Associate Provost and Professor of Marketing, University of Tasmania
• Hannah Moloney, Author and Director, Good Life Permaculture
• Martin Exel, Managing Director, Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship, and Advisor, Austral Fisheries

Huge congratulations to our Deputy Director Dr Beth Fulton who has been inducted as a Fellow into The Australian Academy of Science in recognition for her pioneering marine ecosystems modelling work.

Beth has a multidisciplinary background in mathematics, marine biology and ecology, and combined these skills to develop Atlantis, one of the world’s first ecosystems models to consider the marine environment, the food web, and the people as one. This tool has been used in fisheries management in many countries around the world for the last two decades.

Programme

May 3 (6.00-8.00 UTC)

Starting at 20:00 of May 2 HST (Honolulu), 8.00 CEST (Berlin), 11.30 IST (Delhi), 16.00 AEST (Melbourne)

Asta Audzijonyte (Nature Research Center, Lithuania & University of Tasmania, Australia): Introduction and day one recap 

John Lynham (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa). FishNet: species classification and size regression using AI and a dataset of one million fish

Catarina Silva (Nature Research Center, Lithuania): Developing open source tools for automated fish species identification for recreational fisheries

Jaume Piera  (Spanish National Research Council): Integrating AI tools in Citizen Observatories for potential monitoring of fishes: the case of Cos4Cloud project

Dadong Wang (Data61, CSIRO, Australia): AI-based video analysis for electronic monitoring of fisheries operation

Yanyu Chen (University of Tasmania, Australia): Automated sex classification and size estimation for Giant Grabs

Xabier Lekunberri (AZTI, Basque Research and Technology Alliance): Identification and measurement of tropical tuna species in purse seiners catches using computer vision and deep learning

Discussion 

Programme 

May 2 (14.00-16.00 UTC)

Starting at 7.00 PDT (Vancouver), 10.00 EDT (New York), 16.00 CEST (Berlin), 19.30 IST (Delhi)

Asta Audzijonyte (Nature Research Center, Lithuania & University of Tasmania, Australia). Introduction, anglers, citizen science and fish size data 

Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia, FishBase, Canada). Citizen science data and FishBase

Christian Skov (Technical University of Denmark). Fangstjournalen: a citizen science program for anglers

Sean Simmons (MyCatch and Angler's Atlas, Canada). Citizen science in fisheries research: angler generated data, validation techniques and opportunities for machine learning 

Lisa Kellogg (Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA). RecFish: engaging recreational anglers as community scientists: Overview

Harshil Shah (DXFactor): RecFish: engaging recreational anglers as community scientists: Technical details

Nathaniel (Than) Hitt (U.S. Geological Survey): Deep learning for stream fish conservation using images for individual recognition

Discussion 

2021 has been another challenging year for many of us, however, despite these ongoing difficulties we are delighted to see that CMS continues to go from strength to strength in both research and post graduate training.

Thank you to our wonderful affiliated researchers, students, stakeholders and other supporters for your efforts in making 2021 a successful year for CMS. Not only has your generosity and enthusiasm enriched our collective efforts, but the contributions and outcomes are being realized across a broad spectrum of activity, relevant at local, regional and global scales.

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This talk by multidisciplinary designer Sophie Falkeis, features the project “First Encounters“ - a multimedia walk-in installation – as well as the recently founded platform “The Encounters Lab“, displaying a crossdisciplinary approach to communicating scientific data through means of visual storytelling, turning empirical facts into emotional realities.