Gretta is an ARC Future Fellow, a previous Fulbright Fellow, and the Deputy Associate Dean of Research at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. She is also the current Editor in Chief of the prestigious Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries journal and a co-convenor of the Global Marine Hotspots Network.

Her recent research activity spans a wide range of topics from theoretical to applied ecology, including assessment of species range shifts, population and fishery responses to climate change, development and evaluation of adaptation options to respond to climate change, and on using citizen science approaches for ecological monitoring and engagement (e.g.www.REDMAP.org.au). Gretta leads several large National and regional marine climate change projects at IMAS and has a strong commitment to science communication with the public and industry.

Professor Warwick Sauer has been involved in fisheries research for 31 years, first as a commercial fisher, then as a Principal Oceanographer at the Sea Fisheries Research Institute in Cape Town, South Africa, and for the last 21 years a member of Rhodes University, South Africa with the last 9 years as Head of Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science. He has published over 120 manuscripts in rated peer reviewed international journals, edited two books and numerous book chapters; sat on numerous international panels, has supervised 45 post graduate students and led or participated in more than 40 consulting projects, covering over 20 countries.
Recent research has focused on the management of marine resources and the implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries governance, including the development and application of fisheries policy, the development of fisheries management plans, combating IUU, and Monitoring surveillance and compliance.

Amy Angert is the Canada Research Chair in Conservation Ecology and Associate Professor of Botany and Zoology in the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia.

She is an evolutionary ecologist by training who brings an evolutionary perspective to the problem of climate-driven range shifts. She is currently studying the demographic and evolutionary dynamics of populations perturbed by extreme climate events to understand when and where rapid adaption might forestall range contractions.

During the last 30 years, Defeo has worked on biodiversity conservation and the development of adaptive co-management approaches in small-scale fisheries. His long-term research, which also includes experimental designs to better distinguish natural variability from anthropogenic impacts (notably on sandy beach ecosystems), showed that the threats to these ecosystems span a range from the local, such as trampling, through to the truly global, such as sea-level rise. Different lines of evidence derived from his long-term research suggest that sandy beach macrofauna is reorganizing under the influence of climate change. This is reflected in macrofauna sensitivity to increasing sea surface temperature, sea-level rise and erosion of the narrow physical habitat, as well as changes in system productivity. Defeo has published more than 150 papers in primary journals, he co-authored a book on Ecology of Sandy Shores (2018) and three FAO Fisheries Technical Papers. He has supervised more than 90 graduate and postgraduate students from Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico and Italy. He has received the Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation (2010), the SCOPUS award (2010) and the Uruguayan Science and Technology Morosoli Award (2009).

Birgitta Evengård is professor of infectious diseases at Umeå university and a senior consultant at Umeå university hospital in northern Sweden. After having focused on tropical medicine, for 10 years she has been involved with the impact of climate change on the epidemiology of infectious diseases in the Arctic.

Presently she is the PI of a Nordic Center of Excellence, www.clinf.org, which takes a multi-disciplinary approach involving an international consortium of scientists with interests in One Health and the impacts of ecosystem changes on human societes. She has been the author/ editor of 12 books, 20 book chapters and > 135 scientific publications.

Michelle Greve is based at the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research reflects her interest in biogeography, i.e. understanding how patterns of diversity and distribution of organisms have come about, what these patterns tell us about the evolutionary drivers of these patterns, and how we can use this information for conservation prioritisation, with a particular focus on the Southern Hemisphere.

More recently, she has also become interested in the invasion ecology of the sub-Antarctic islands, where she and her team are using a combination of trait ecology and modelling approaches to better predict invasion threats and impacts.

Roger is the Climate Change Coordinator for NOAAs National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). A marine ecologist by training, he is leading NMFS efforts to increase the production, delivery and use of climate-related information in fulfilling agency mandates for fisheries management, protected species recovery and habitat conservation. He is involved in a variety of activities including implementation of the NMFS Climate Science Strategy, conducting marine species climate vulnerability assessments, and improving tracking, early warning and response to climate-related changes in marine ecosystems.

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David Obura is a Director of CORDIO East Africa, a knowledge organization supporting sustainable management and conservation of coral reef and marine systems in Eastern Africa/the Western Indian Ocean. CORDIO takes research to management and policy, builds capacity, and works with stakeholders, managers and policy makers.
His primary research is on coral reef resilience, in particular to climate change, and the bio-geography of Indian Ocean corals, and have worked extensively in coral reef monitoring. This work provides a platform for contributing to regional scale marine management: in the Northern Mozambique Channel to design and promote an Integrated Ocean Management approach.

Dr Pettorelli’s expertise is in methods to assess, predict and mitigate the impacts of changes in environmental conditions on species and ecosystems. She has authored/co-authored two books and over 130 scientific peer-reviewed publications on this topic. Nathalie sits on the editorial board of Journal of Applied Ecology, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, a journal she launched in 2014. She is the Secretary of the Conservation Specialist Interest Group for the British Ecological Society (BES), while also being a member of the BES Equality and Diversity Working Group and the BES Policy Committee. She also heads the GEO BON working group on ecosystem functions, which seeks to research, identify and derive essential biodiversity variables related to ecosystem functions.

Elvira is the Head of Science of the Technical Support Unit of Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Sixth Assessment Cycle. She was a Lead Author on Chapter 30 Ocean for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.
Elvira has over 15 years research expertise in climate change ecology, with a focus on ocean ecosystems and fisheries particularly in the north-east Atlantic and south-west Pacific. Her research includes detection and attribution of observed impacts of climate change, projections of ecological impacts under warming scenarios, and the development of adaptation options for ecosystems and industries. She has led or contributed to assessments of climate change impacts, risks and adaptation across disciplines and sectors.

Katya Popova is a global ocean and climate modeller working at the National Oceanography Centre, UK. Her main interests include ocean connectivity and impact of ocean advection on marine ecosystems.
Dr. Popova is particularly interested in two regions: The Arctic Ocean and its transition to the seasonally ice-free state under continuous global warming and the Western Indian Ocean and climate impacts on its living marine resources. As well as scientific research, Dr.Popova is interested in policy and industry uptake of global high resolution modelling in the following areas:

• Impact of climate change on living marine resources
• Environmental risk assessment of potential oil spills
• Navigability of the Arctic sea routes
• Risk of oil spills in Arctic from increased exploration and transportation
• Adaptation to climate change in communities dependent on living marine resources
• Ocean geoengineering

Morgan Tingley is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. His research combines original data collected in the field with ecological big data and hierarchical modeling to answer critical ecological questions about organisms.
His work primarily focuses on how large-scale anthropogenic drivers of change (e.g., climate change, invasive species, fire) affect geographic distributions and community interactions over short (years) to long (centuries) timespans. His studies frequently focus on bird communities in temperate mountains around the world.

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Bruce Webber is a Senior Research Scientist with CSIRO, the Program Director of Processes and Threats Mitigation at the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He is exploring the effect of global environmental change on plant-resource allocation and plant-ecosystem interactions to better understand range shifts, landscape connectivity and plant fitness.
Bruce leads projects that translate novel research findings into improved management solutions to address the biggest challenges at the nexus of landscape change, species invasions and native species resilience.

Nicola Downey-Breedt completed her PhD at Rhodes University South Africa. She is an early career scientist specializing in the field of fisheries science. Her primary interest is in cephalopods and the influence of the marine environment on spawning behaviour and the dispersal of paralarvae. She is currently running the oceanography course at the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science (Rhodes University) and is passionate about emphasising the importance of understanding the marine environment and the role it plays in fish distribution, spawning and the transport of early life-history phases; particularly in light of our changing oceans.

Warren is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science at Rhodes University. He is the lead researcher of the Southern African Fisheries Ecology Research (SAFER) Lab, which currently facilitates the research activities of two postdoctoral fellows and 22 postgraduate students. His research activities include fish life history, physiology and movement, with an emphasis on how these are influenced by exploitation and environmental change (at a range of timescales). Much of this research is focused on the response of fishes to the rapid environmental change observed in two global marine hotspots (southern Angola and the Agulhas Bank). His research also has a strong community engagement focus which is particularly aimed at collaboratively collecting data and improving the compliance and catch and release behaviour of recreational anglers.

Dr Tero Mustonen, a passionate defender of traditional worldview and cosmology of his people, is a Finn and the head of village of Selkie in North Karelia, Finland. He is the traditional knowledge coordinator for Eurasia for the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment.

Professionally, he works for the award-winning Snowchange Cooperative, which is a non-profit organization based in Finland with members across the Arctic, including the communities of Eastern Sámi, Chukchi, Yukaghir, Sakha, Evenk, Even, Inuit, Inuvialuit, Gwitchin and many more.

Dr Mustonen is well-known scholar of the Arctic biodiversity, climate change and indigenous issues, having published over a dozen publications on the topics, including the ground-breaking Eastern Sámi Atlas and Snowscapes, Dreamscapes.

Dr Mustonen lives in the middle of the last old-growth forest in Selkie with his wife, Kaisu, two goats and 10 chicken without running water. He is a winter seiner. He has won several human rights and environmental awards for the work with Snowchange and indigenous peoples of the Arctic. He is also an adopted full status member of the Kwakwakwala First Nation based in British Columbia, Canada.

I-Ching’s work focuses on different aspects of biological responses to climate changes and habitat degradation, including species range shifts, the association with biological traits, and consequences of community reshuffling. Particularly, she concentrates on bird and butterfly species in the tropical mountains, where species may have adapted to the stable and cloudy environments but the ecosystems are vulnerable to a change in climate variability and diverse human activities.

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