PhD student Dimuthu Jayakody was the winner of the student award for the best speed talk presentation at the Hawaii Conservation Conference. Di presented the talk "An approach to assessing place attachment toward improving place-based biological conservation and environmental planning efforts". Congratulations Di!! 

Congratulation to Corrine who received the best poster award at the AMSA Conference 2022 for her poster "Social influence modelling - Reducing community conflict in aquaculture".

Congratulation to Graham Wood for being a finalist in the ACTS Champions awards for his work in "sustainability literacy"!

Curious Climate program: student and community-led conversations with scientists on climate change, led by Gretta Pecl, Chloe Lucas and Gabi Mocatta and involving many CMS members, is a finalist in the 2022 Green Gown Awards Australasia!!

We are so excited that Dr Kirsty Nash has been given the 2022 Emerging Leader in Marine Science Award by AMSA in recognition to Kirsty's impactful and interdisciplinary work across coral reef ecosystems, health, science communication, and gender equity in academia. Huge congratulations Kirsty!!

CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl was featured in FISH Magazine. Read article here

This is a documentary showcasing not only the outstanding wildlife and nature of the Southern Ocean, but also the vital role scientists play in helping us both understand and conserve the many species and marine and coastal ecosystems showcased.

CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl and other IMAS researchers contributed to the broadcast.

If you would like to watch it, it is available on iView  https://iview.abc.net.au/show/southern-ocean-live -

Article about Dr Beth Fulton inclusion as an Australian Academy of Science Fellow in recognition of her work in marine ecological modelling, published in CSIRO News.

Read article here.

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

Find podcast here

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.