Sienna Blanckensee is an undergraduate student at the University of Queensland, undertaking a Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours). Majoring in geography and minoring in mathematics, her areas of interest are meteorology and oceanography. Currently, her research under Dr Helen Bostock focusses on the characteristics required for the formation of Antarctic Bottom Water. In the future, … Continued
Martin has been working for over 22 years on marine protected area and fisheries management in Australia’s oceans. He is the Manager of the Coral Sea Marine Park in the Australian Government, and worked previously as a fisheries/MPA manager with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. He is the Chair of Science and Conservation … Continued
Maria Seton is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney and part of the EarthByte Group. She is a marine geoscientist with expertise in plate tectonics, geodynamics and marine geophysics. While much of her research is global in scale and scope, she has a particular interest in the tectonic and … Continued
Luke Cravigan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research is focussed on aerosol, cloud, and climate interactions in natural environments. The overall goal of this research is to use measurements to improve the implementation of aerosols and clouds in earth system models, resulting in enhanced representation of weather and … Continued
A passionate marine geoscientist, Kim has been with Geoscience Australia since 2012. Over her 20 year career, Kim has worked for three international geological surveys where she has occupied technical through to leadership roles and has sailed on over 30 multi-disciplinary expeditions around the globe. Her research focus is on seabed mapping techniques and understanding … Continued
Ben Houseman is an Honours student at the University of Queensland under Dr Helen Bostock. His research project focuses on the palaeoceanography of the South-West Pacific Ocean over the Mid-Pleistocene transition by looking at proxy evidence in marine sediment cores. He previously completed a BSc in Geographical Science at the University of Queensland. Prior to … Continued
Ella Sinclair has just completed her undergraduate degree, graduating from Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Biology and minoring in Earth Science and Wild Life Ecology. Ella plans on doing persuing post graduate study, focusing on Coral Reef research and Conservation Management, in tropical and coastal areas in the Pacific. … Continued
Haydn Trounce is a first year PhD Candidate at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Science at Queensland University of Technology. Haydn’s background is in atmospheric physics, particularly in aerosols. Haydn’s current research is investigating the sources and sinks of cloud condensating nuclei (CCN) in Australia’s oceans, which play an important role in Earth’s climate … Continued
Dr Helen Bostock is a marine geologist and biogeochemical oceanographer. She uses a range of different datasets to understand the modern and past changes in ocean circulation. These include bathymetric data, sediment samples and cores, plankton (microfossils), deep sea corals, hydrographic (temperature, salinity, oxygen) and other water chemistry data (nutrients and carbonate parameters). She is … Continued
