Aimee Catalan

Dr Aimee Catalan is Founder and Director of Catalan Group, an Australian science communication organisation that consults with scientists and researchers to act as interpreter of their science stories and enable them to effectively present their own research. As a science communicator and storyteller, she has presented and lectured in Europe, North America and Asia … Continued

Ángel Puga Bernabéu

Dr. Puga-Bernabéu graduated and doctorate from the University of Granada in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He is Associate Professor at the University of Granada (Spain) and collaborator of the Geocoastal Research Group in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney where he spent two years as a postdoc (2009-2011). Ángel is a carbonate … Continued

Kristian Teleki

In addition to serving as director of the Sustainable Ocean Initiative at World Resources Institute, Kristian Teleki is head of the Friends of Ocean Action for the World Economic Forum, and head of the Secretariat for the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Economy. Until early 2018, he was the senior marine adviser to the … Continued

Jessica Leitmanis

Jessica Leitmanis is a multidisciplinary artist, currently working sculpturally with marine debris rope. Jess has travelled to some of the most remote and truly wild regions of Australia with various organisations to acquire this material—from the rugged South West of Tasmania to salty crocodile country in Cape York.   The trials of a castaway life have … Continued

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger has completed a Master of Studio Art and Master of Fine Art degrees at Sydney College of the Arts – University of Sydney Australia. Her research into evolution, contemporary society and the impact of tourism on island environments has led her to onsite investigations through immersive residencies or eco-tourism in the South Shetland … Continued

Taloi Havini

Born in 1981 Arawa, Bougainville. Currently based between Sydney and Hakö constituency in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Havini’s work is often a personal response to the politics of location exploring contested sites and histories in the Oceania region; employing photography, sculpture, immersive video and mixed-media installations. Working with living contemporary practitioners … Continued

John Pogonoski

John Pogonoski is an Ichthyologist at the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection in Hobart, and has over 25 years’ experience collecting, identifying, curating and documenting Indo-Pacific fishes.  John has participated in several RV Investigator voyages including the Great Australian Bight, the North West Shelf and the Sampling the Abyss voyage from Tasmania to the southern … Continued

Will White

Dr Will White is senior curator of the Australian National Fish Collection  at CSIRO in Hobart. Will’s main research area is taxonomy and systematics of sharks and rays. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the collection, identification, preservation and description of new shark and ray species. He has also authored numerous books on … Continued

Luke Nothdurft

Dr Luke Nothdurft is a marine geoscientist based at the Queensland University of Technology. Luke’s research focuses on changes in shallow marine carbonate skeletons and sediment. Using a combination of geological and biological field data and samples, Luke investigates problems around climate change in tropical marine environments over a range of time scales with laboratory-based … Continued

Vikki Lowe

Vikki Lowe is a PhD candidate through Higher Degree by Research at the University of Queensland under Dr Helen Bostock. Her research focuses on the paleoceanography of the Southern Ocean over the last glacial cycle using radiolaria. She completed a B Marine Geoscience at Macquarie University, and a BSc (Hons) at Griffith University. Prior to … Continued