Professor Sarah Bekessy leads the ICON science research group, which uses interdisciplinary approaches to solve complex biodiversity conservation problems.

Sarah is particularly interested in understanding the role of human behaviour in conservation, in designing cities to encourage ‘every day nature’ experiences and in defining and measuring ‘nature positive’ development.

Sarah also co-developed the Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design Protocol.

More Information

https://biodiversitycouncil.org.au/

https://www.recetasproject.eu/

https://icon-science.org/

https://www.rmit.edu.au/profiles/b/sarah-bekessy

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Associate Professor Tanya Latty is an entomologist from the school of life and environmental sciences at the University of Sydney with a special interest in ecology and conservation.

She is the co-founder and outreach lead of Invertebrates Australia, and is currently running the Christmas beetle project.

More Information

https://invertebratesaustralia.org/

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/christmas-beetle-count

https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/our-research/research-areas/life-and-environmental-sciences/christmas-beetle-population-project.html

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Richard Fuller is a passionate advocate for conservation.

In particular, he focuses on biodiversity and is regularly called upon to provide advice to the Australian Government on environmental issues.

Richard also studies the migratory patterns of coastal bird species travelling between Australia and Asia.

More Information

https://www.fullerlab.org

https://ebird.org/ebird/home

https://birdlife.org.au/

https://cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/

https://waders.org.au/

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Lisa Blair is an Australian solo sailor who holds multiple world records and is an advocate for action against climate change, which she promotes through her Climate Action Now project.

Lisa is the author of the book, Facing Fear, and stars in her own documentary film, Ice Maiden.

More Information

https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/

https://www.instagram.com/lisablairsailstheworld

https://m.facebook.com/LisaBlairSailstheWorld

https://lisablairsailstheworld.com/post-message

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Ted Cheeseman leads one of the world’s largest Whale Citizen Scientist Projects. In fact it may be the largest Citizen Science Project for Whales in the world.

Citizen Scientist contributors around the world have been photographing the underside of the flukes of Humpback Whales for almost ten years and uploading these images to a Whale Fluke database.

Whale markings are then cross correlated with other images in the database and specific whales can be identified. This is valuable information for Whale Research scientists.

More information

https://happywhale.com/home

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/tedcheese/snapshots-at-sea-whale-identification

https://www.changingseas.tv/season-14/1402/

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Tonight on the show we are talking to a Professor David Watson, an Ecologist who monitors sound in the environment for the A20 Project.

This project helps to monitor Australian ecosystems so that we can gauge the health of the environment.

More Information

https://acousticobservatory.org/

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Tonight on the show we are speaking with Graham Tupper, the former Manager of the Northern Australia Program for the Australian Conservation Foundation and a former wildlife tour guide south of Canberra.

Graham is the President of The Friends of the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden Inc., a Not-for-Profit Association that works in partnership with the City of Coffs Harbour to maintain and develop the botanic garden.

Graham has been involved in projects including the Seed Bank and Fauna Survey.

More Information

https://coffsbotanicgarden.com.au/

https://coffsbotanicgarden.com.au/learn/nature-gallery/

https://coffsbotanicgarden.com.au/support/friends-of-the-botanic-garden/

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Catriona Walker describes herself as a “grower, forager, maker, mender and mother” who lives on a tiny Scottish island in the UK.

A true citizen scientist, Catriona is making a difference in her own way, by sharing her fascination of moths that live in her backyard with the world…and it has brought awareness and attracted a surprisingly high following on Instagram.

More Information

https://www.instagram.com/clouded.silver/

https://butterfly-conservation.org/in-your-area/east-scotland-branch/budget-bucket-moth-trap

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