We are very excited that our CMS Director, Prof Gretta Pecl has been nominated as a finalist for the 2022 Tasmanian Australian of the Year Award for her pioneering work establishing the Redmap program. The awards will be announced in Hobart on 29th October. We wish you all the best Gretta!

We are very proud of our CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl, who has been awarded the 2021 K. Radway Allen Award by the Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) for her outstanding contributions to the field of fisheries science. Huge Congratulations Gretta!!

The award, which is the most prestigious honour given by the ASFB, recognises Professor Pecl’s broad interdisciplinary research interests, with more than 150 published papers to her name in the marine and fisheries research space.

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PhD student Katie Marx is a finalist in the 3-minute thesis (3MT) presentations!

You can have a look at the 2021 finalists' presentations here

Katie is studying the connection of gateway citizens with Antarctica.

Prof Gretta Pecl opened the Climate Week at Huonville High, organised by their Zayed Sustainability Team. Prof Pecl talked about how the IPCC process worked and then made bike powered donuts!

These amazing youth leaders have a whole week of climate action activities planned!

Prof Catriona MacLeod will be presenting at this event about "Local climate impacts and solutions".

Find more information about the event in the poster below.

CMS member Dean Greeno was interviewed by ABC radio Hobart about the Future Seas project, the Indigenous Peoples piece, and the importance of empowering the voices and agency of Indigenous Peoples: "What role does Indigenous knowledge play in observing and reversing climate change?"

Listen interview here

Sincere congratulations to Prof Julia Blanchard for her successful ARC Future Fellowship application with the project "Bridging the land–sea divide to ensure food security under climate change"!!

This project aims to comprehensively evaluate ocean-based food solutions to meet food security needs under climate change. It will resolve a critical blind spot in current plans that isolate land and sea food systems and neglect their interdependencies. Combining global models and data, it will assess the constraints of ocean-based food solutions by anticipating and accounting for land-sea links including: agricultural runoff, shared feed resources for farmed animals, and trade-offs for biodiversity and climate mitigation. It will deliver a major leap in our capacity to undertake holistic ecosystem assessment of future food production pathways. Benefits will include integrated food–biodiversity–climate policies for Australia and the world.

Dr Kirsty Nash was an invited speaker at the webinar organised by the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs.  Kirsty presented "Creating a vision to guide development of a sustainable ocean future: the Future Seas 2030 initiative".

Prof Gretta Pecl was talking about squids and other cephalopods for primary school kids at UCTV alive for kids