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.
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.
Download report here.
The interactive action thriller ‘Full Metal Aquatic’ was performed online on February 1st and 2nd 2022 to celebrate the launch of the Future Seas Project and to showcase the upcoming Future Seas special issue in the journal Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. ‘Full Metal Aquatic’, written by David Finnigan and Jordan Prosser in collaboration with researchers from the Future Seas project and animated by Sacha Bryning, is set in the ocean a decade from now and takes place in two different futures – one we hope to see and one we want to prevent. It is designed to explore what our future could feasibly look like, depending on the actions we take now. Watch the video to find out the whole story!
Watch the recording here
What future did YOU prefer?
The online performance was followed by a game and discussion which unpacked the critical forces that are shaping the future of our oceans. Participants were divided into groups each representing a local authority responsible for managing a stretch of coastline. Each group was given the same budget and a list of twelve possible projects aimed at improving resource management, climate and ecosystem financing, research and education. Each group was then asked to spend its budget on a selection of projects based on the project’s costs and positive impacts in diverse areas related to ecosystem health, climate resilience, community development, food systems, and community connectedness. At the end of the game, each group was given a snapshot summary of what its coastline would look like in 2030 as an outcome of the group’s decisions.
Watch the game instructions here and find the game rules here. Enjoy!
Redmap (the Range Extension Database and Mapping Project), led by Prof Gretta Pecl, was included as a citizen science case study in the State of the Marine and Coastal Environment 2021 Report. Learn more here.
This section of the report, "Citizen scientists helping track unusual marine species", was written in collaboration with CMS Director Prof Gretta Pecl and CMS member Dr Barrett Wolfe.
