Details will be display soon! Biography: Arani Chandrapavan is a fisheries scientist with over 20 years research experience working on a range of invertebrate biology and fisheries stock assessments. She recently stepped away from her previous role as the lead...

Much is invested in the collection and publication of marine datasets, yet trustworthy data can be difficult to find and difficult to use. In this talk, we will explore a range of data streams collected by the Integrated Marine Observing...

As a member of the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, Australia committed to managing 100% of our ocean sustainably, through a sustainable ocean plan.  Australia’s first national sustainable ocean plan is being finalised following extensive nation-wide engagement with...

Presenter: Dr Curtis Champion Projections of stronger and longer-lasting marine heatwaves underscore the emerging need for formalised marine heatwave response plans to guide response actions at all stages of these extreme events. Four key components of globally applicable marine heatwave...

Commercial shipping faces a perfect storm of commercial, regulatory, and market pressures to reduce its reliance on fossil-based fuels. A relatively low-cost option is to modify ship routes to take advantage of surface ocean currents to save fuel and cut...

Jonathan Barratt Index insurance solutions offer sustainable risk management to terrestrial farmers in many regions looking to hedge lost income caused by adverse weather events. However, these solutions are not widely available to marine industries, such as aquaculture. In August-September...

Over 85% of Australians live within 50 km of the coast. Our cities, industries, recreation and culture are closely entwined with this environment. Climate change is altering our coastline at unprecedented rates, with sea level rise, coastal erosion, inundation and...

The plant Psydrax odorata (Rubiaceae) produces swollen stems that are used by an undescribed species of ant (Podomyrma) as its domicile. The ant cares for scale insects within the nest, some of which are specific to that ant on that...

Melissa Houghton1 1Biosecurity, Tasmania Biography: Melissa Houghton is an Entomologist at Biosecurity Tasmania. How she arrived at this position is unconventional. Passionate about conservation, she was involved in island mammal eradications around Tasmania, including on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Following the...

Xiaomeng Qi1 1School of Bioscience, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Abstract: Since the 1950s, chemical insecticides have been widely used as a primary control strategy for both agricultural and disease-vector pest species. However, the systematic and widespread use of insecticides...