Catriona is Interim Executive Director.
Her research is focused on coastal environmental interactions, and marine and coastal resource management. She has a particular interest in environmental impacts on soft-sediment and reef ecosystems, especially as a result of organic enrichment and heavy metals, and in providing the system understanding to ensure sustainable management of industries in the coastal zone. This has led to a broader and multidisciplinary research focus on multiple use management, improving spatial planning processes, the relationship between environmental management and community values, and how to improve science communication and environmental understanding. Catriona has developed and led a number of significant cross-disciplinary research collaborations within UTAS, nationally and internationally; including multi-sectoral partnerships.
Professor Chris Carter is Deputy Executive Director, IMAS.
Professor Carter has a career long interest around fisheries, particularly aquaculture. At the University of Tasmania he was Professor of Aquaculture and Head of the School of Aquaculture before becoming Professor of Aquaculture Nutrition. He also leads the Experimental Aquaculture Facility (EAF) for large-salmon research and is a senior member of the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs on rock lobster aquaculture. He was the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute Aquaculture Program leader for 10 years and the Education Program leader for two Cooperative Research Centres, the Aquafin CRC and the Australian Seafood CRC.
His research focuses on nutritional physiology with the aims of understanding how aquatic animals use and waste nutrients including amino acids, fatty acids, and minerals. This encompasses understanding climate change effects, growth under sub-optimum conditions and developing new ingredients and aquafeeds. He is very interested in global aquaculture systems including polyculture, integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) and recirculation aquaculture systems (RAS).
Neil is Professor of Climatology and Climate Change and Head of the Centre for Oceans and Cryosphere within IMAS.
Neil is a Physical Oceanographer by training, and one of Australia's original National Greenhouse Advisory Committee (NGAC) PhD scholars graduating from the University of Sydney. His interests and expertise are in the ocean's role in climate, ocean and climate dynamics, climate variability, extremes, climate change, and systems science. He led Australia's National Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Marine Biodiversity and Resources [2009-2013]. Neil is President of the International Commission on Climate of IAMAS/IUGG and a Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
Vanessa is a marine spatial analyst and the Centre Head of the Ecology and Biodiversity Centre.
In particular her research focus is on the development of spatial analysis methods for translating remotely sensed data into information that be utilised to understand the spatial distribution of benthic marine habitats. The diversity of research projects that Vanessa engages in is a reflection of the multidisciplinary nature of marine surveying. Marine surveying is a foundation discipline that generates knowledge to answer specific questions about understanding our marine environment.
Sean is Head of the IMAS Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre.
With a diverse portfolio in fisheries and marine ecosystems science, he conducts innovative research across multiple disciplines to address critical questions of both ecological consequence and facilitates sustainable management of marine resources.
His work spans the study of marine species and how they interact with each other and their environment, assessing commercial and recreational fisheries and more recently, the importance of seafood to global food security.
Andrew is the Associate Head of Internationalisation at IMAS.
Jayson is the Associate Head of Research.
His work focuses on applying biotelemetry, biologging, accelerometry and ecophysiology to understanding marine populations and ensuring their sustainability.
He is particularly interested in using these techniques to examine factors that influence the expression of life history parameters across a wide range of animal groups, particularly sharks and rays, fish, and cephalopods. He also has extensive expertise/interest in scallop fisheries biology/ecology.
Stuart is the Associate Head of Learning and Teaching at IMAS and the chair of the IMAS Learning and Teaching committee. In this position he leads the delivery of both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching within IMAS, ensuring we provide world class learning opportunities in for our students.
Stuart is a climate and ecosystem modeller who specialises in understanding how the physical environment influences individual and population success of Southern Ocean marine species. His particular interest is in how changes in the physical climate are likely to change population dynamics in this important ecosystem. Working in a multidisciplinary field necessarily involves collaboration and Stuart has built a diverse group of collaborators with a range of specialisations from ocean modellers through to ecologists and field biologists. Before joining the IMAS faculty, Stuart was a long-time member of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Co-operative Research Centre.
Caleb is the Director of the Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration (SMRCA), a partnership agreement between the Tasmanian Government and UTAS for research services.
Caleb first studied science at Adelaide University and then worked in the UK and Sydney. He began his fisheries research career with UTAS in 1995, initially working on giant crab and lobster fisheries. He later undertook additional undergraduate studies and then a masters by research in economics in response to the need to consider economic approaches in harvest strategies. He has worked in a range of positions at UTAS during his time here.
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