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 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
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
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 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
Graeme McMahon is a highly respected award winning cinematographer, director and editor with 20 years of experience. His career started with creating video, photography, editing and graphic design content for the Australian Army Multi-Media Unit where his team won an International Humanitarian Award for one of their projects. Graeme is a highly sort Queensland based … Continued
Jenny Woodman is the Science Communication Manager for Schmidt Ocean Institute. She spent several years covering ocean health and technology for NASA and IEEE Earthzine, where she was lucky enough to join several scientific expeditions at sea. Woodman experienced seafloor mapping, magical wildlife sightings in National Marine Sanctuaries, a little bit of seasickness, and exploring … Continued
Lisa M. Pereira, CMP, holds a Bachelor of Science in Consumer Economics and Communications from the University of Delaware. She furthered her education with a Master’s in Administrative Science and Nonprofit Management from Fairleigh Dickinson University and completed a MiniMBA in Brand Development and Marketing Communications at Rutgers Business School. As a Certified Meeting Professional … Continued
Valerie is a Masters of Marine Biology student at James Cook University (Townsville, Australia). She is currently undertaking her Masters Research Project, which focuses on using remotely sensed data from drones to map out coral reefs using spectral unmixing techniques. She finished her Bachelors of Science at Imperial College London and after graduating, worked at … Continued
Joan is currently a Master of Science student at James Cook University majoring in marine biology. During her studies, she worked on a project to detect sea cucumbers from drone images using computer vision. Thus, she has developed a keen interest in machine learning, mapping and other cutting-edge technology in the field. At the same … Continued
