Congratulations to CMS’s most recent PhD graduate Dr Hannah Fogarty for her PhD on "Climate ready: identifying adaptation preparedness in Australia’s State fisheries", supervised by Prof Gretta Pecl, Dr Alistair Hobday and Dr Chris Cvitanovic.

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Presentation to the ICED Krill Modelling Group by Andrew Constable

CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl contributed to the Forward section of this recently released report led by Prof Nathalie Pettorelli.

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Another CMS member recognised as a Tasmania’s 2021 STEM leader. Dr Cayne Layton was one the winners of the 2021 Tasmanian STEM Excellence Awards, and received the Tasmanian Young STEM Researcher of the Year award. Huge congratulation Cayne!!

Huge congratulations to Dr Kirsty Nash who has been awarded a L’Oréal-UNESCO Australia & NZ For Women In Science fellowship!!

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Prof Gretta Pecl and Mibu Fischer were interviewed in this 3CR Radio episode about climate change and the Indigenous perspectives piece on the future of the ocean as part of the Future Seas project.

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Prof Pecl has joined the editorial board of this new solutions focused journal npj Ocean Sustainability.

https://www.nature.com/npjoceansustain/editors

Presentation by Prof Gretta Pecl at the AMSA conference 2021 about the Future Seas project.

Andrew Constable and Jess Melbourne-Thomas are co-convenors of the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (MEASO) program under the auspices of the IMBeR program Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean.  They presented as part of an event on “Antarctic marine ecosystems under pressure: protection needs action locally and globally” organised by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) at the UNFCCC COP26 and supported by the Southern Ocean Observing System.  

This presentation was supported by:

• The Steering Committee and Synthesis teams of the Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean
• Eav Brennan (for the cartoon of change)
• Lisa Roberts (for the infographic on cultural connections: LRoberts et al. 2021. Enabling Enduring Evidence-Based Policy for the Southern Ocean Through Cultural Arts Practices. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9. #10.3389/fevo.2021.616089)
• Denisse Fierro Arcos (Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia), Tilo Ziehn (CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia) (for providing data used in the animations of change in the Southern Ocean from the ACCESS ESM1.5)
• ICED, SCAR, SOOS

Further results of MEASO can be found in a Frontiers research topic at https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10606/marine-ecosystem-assessment-for-the-southern-ocean-meeting-the-challenge-for-conserving-earth-ecosys