What makes the East Coast, Tasmania a special place to live and work?
Di Jayakody wants to know, as part of her PhD project, about the places that are important to the people who live in this beautiful region and what is at stake if these places were lost or changed due to ongoing threats. So, she is asking you to participate in a survey that will allow her to understand what places are valuable and what places may be at risk. By doing this, she can create maps that will help advise what place values need to be protected and how we can go about doing it!
Watch this video for more information or go to the facebook page East Coast Community Mapping
If you haven't already, take our survey by going to: http://tasvalues.com/east-coast-community-mapping/
We want to hear from a wide range of people living in Break O'Day and Glamorgan Spring Bay regions, so share this post and spread the message!
Cafe Labs is a UTAS initiative to connect regional Tasmanians with unique research projects taking place in their own backyard while providing greater insight into what is happening at the University.
Dr Maree Fudge participated in the first Cafe Lab held in Burnie in late April and joined other researchers from the University to talk about marine and coastal environments. To know more about the event please go here.
Our 2020 CMS Annual Report is out!
On the surface, it may look like any other successful year, but we want to acknowledge that 2020 was a year not like any other; the circumstances of 2020 created a lot of stress for our staff, and particular, our students.
Wholehearted thanks to all our students, researchers, collaborators and stakeholders, for their ongoing efforts in the Centre of Marine Socioecology during this exceptionally challenging year.
Download the report here
*Featured image by Matthew Doggett
CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl was awarded the prestigious Distinguished Women Scholars Lecture, by the University of Victoria in Canada, to highlight and honour outstanding research achievements by women scholars. Gretta presented the lecture "Climate-driven re-distribution in marine coastal systems".
This major global report aims to accelerate climate change adaptation implementation in fisheries management throughout the world, providing information to underpin strengthening the resilience of fisheries, reducing their vulnerability to climate change, and enabling managers to respond in a timely manner to the projected changes in the dynamics of marine resources and ecosystems. Dr Beth Fulton, CMS Deputy Director, contributed to a set of ‘good practices’ for climate-adaptive fisheries management that have proven their effectiveness and can be adapted to different contexts, providing a range of options for stakeholders including the fishing industry, fishery managers, policymakers and others involved in decision-making. CMS PhD student Hannah Fogarty and CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl authored one of the 13 case studies, chapter 15 ‘Lessons and recommendations for the climate adaptation of key Tasmanian fisheries’, which focuses on wild-caught Rock Lobster and Abalone fisheries in Tasmania.
Find the full report here.
CMS run a communication challenge competition to promote its research themes within its members and students. The winner was Peter Puskic with the video on "Martine Pollution"!!!
Special mentions:
Video entry: How might coastal and marine governance address natural resources conflict?, by Karen Alexander
Video entry: CMS Research Themes, by Kirsty Nash
Video entry: Climate Friction, by Chloe Lucas
Huge congratulations to Dr Larelle Bossi and Dr Maree Fudge, who graduated in December 2020.
Larelle's PhD research topic was "A First Cast at a Philosophy of Fishing". Maree's PhD research topic was "Institutional development for the Channel Region South Eastern Tasmania".
CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl was an invited speaker at the UN Ocean Decade/ Youth Summit 2020.
The summit was attended by over 200 youth ages 13-25 from over 50 countries.
Dr Rachel Kelly was recognised as one of Australia’s top 5 early achievers in Social Science research in the The Australian Early Achievers Leaderboard Rising Stars. The Early Achievers Leaderboard lists the five top researchers from Australian universities and research institutions in each of the eight major discipline areas, who are less than 10 years into their career.
Dr Alistair Hobday was recognised in the The Australian Life Sciences & Earth Sciences Australia's research leaders in the field of Marine Sciences and Fisheries. Australia's research field leaders in 30 fields of Life Sciences & Earth Sciences are the researchers with the highest number of citations from papers published in the last five years in the 20 top journals in their field.
Huge congratulations to Rachel and Alistair for this big achievement!!!
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, many students and researchers have been unable to present their work at traditional scientific conferences planned throughout the year. A Twitter conference provides a worthy alternative, allowing researchers to present their work and to develop new collaborations without leaving the comfort of their homes. It is also a cost-effective and sustainable replacement with no carbon emissions from travel. Therefore, to provide an opportunity to CMS undergraduates, graduates and ECR’s we are pleased to invite you to join our first CMS Twitter conference, Interdisciplinary Science to Underpin A Sustainable Anthropocene (#BuildANewAnthropocene).
We encourage anyone who is interested in interdisciplinary science to participate as a spectator and to engage with presenters on Twitter. We encourage submissions from all CMS affiliated researchers, however, please note we will prioritise presentations to be given by CMS students and ECR’s.
The conference will take place on the 20th May, 2020 at 9:30am (Australian AEST)
Submissions have now closed. If you are interested in participating in the conference (#BuildANewAnthropocene) as spectator or presenter follow the instructions below.
If you have technical issues using the twitter platform or require help with any of the steps below please contact us [email protected]).
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Download the conference schedule here
INSTRUCTIONS
Information for non-presenting participants
If don’t wish to give a present but wish to participate as a spectator only. Please search the conference hashtag #BuildANewAnthropocene and you will be shown all the related posts and presentations. If asking a question, please direct the tweet with the question to the specific presenter(s) by using their handle(s) (@name) followed by the conference hashtag #BuildANewAnthropocene. You can ask questions during the designated question time (10 minutes) or after the conference.
Information for presenting participants
Send the following information to [email protected] by the 8th of May, 5:00pm
If selected, our team will send notifications and presentation times to speakers by the 14th of May.
If you don’t have a twitter account, you will need to set-up one. It is very straightforward. See the links below on ‘how to’:
In order to prepareyour presentation, please read the instructions below carefully-
You need to search our hashtag #BuildANewAnthropocene to see all the posts related to the conference. Using dashboards services such as Tweetdeck or Hootsuite can help you a lot.Both dashboards help you to follow the conference related tweets, to check your notifications at the same time and allows you to schedule your tweets.
We encourage all participants to ask questions to presenters. When asking questions, please direct the tweet with the question to the specific presenter(s) by using their handle(s) (@name) followed by the conference hashtag #BuildANewAnthropocene. You can ask questions during the designated question time (10 minutes) or after the conference.
