Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Duke University Doug Nowacek’s activities represent a mixture of research tool development, coupled closely with the science driving the need for those tools, and the dissemination of resulting research to students at all levels as well as the broader society. Since starting graduate school and continuing to the present, Nowacek has pioneered several marine research tools and methods that, inter alia, seek to create knowledge as well as integrate and transfer it. Some examples of these activities include: i) combined overhead video/audio for cetacean research that has been used for research and conservation; ii) multi-sensor acoustic tags that were pioneered when Nowacek was a graduate student for his project and have added significantly to the creation and transfer of knowledge; iii) Nowacek has worked to apply the tools and teachings of basic science to conservation driven research, including teaching innovative and experiential courses such as ‘the history and future of ocean energy’ and ‘ocean engineering’; iv) Nowacek’s commitment to STEM education extends to all levels of students, from the undergraduate and graduate students at Duke (including successfully mentoring undergraduates, masters and Ph.D. students through their degree requirements, advising numerous undergraduates in their independent study projects and guiding them through to preparing manuscripts for publication) to elementary and middle school students in the local school system where he routinely presents to and interacts with students, including organizing an ‘Antarctic mini-module’ with a local 7th grade science class; v) in 2015 Nowacek testified to Congress on the use of seismic airgun surveys and their potential impacts on marine life; and vi) Nowacek has served on the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, convened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature for >10 years, and this work has resulted in numerous publications, recommendations, and practical guidance on industry/nature coexistence.
Associate Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia I am an Associate Professor at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. My current research focuses on the intersection of values and policy relevant science, especially as it relates to climate change and public health. I am the author of Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle: Science, Evidence and Environmental Policy (2015, Cambridge University Press), and am currently the primary investigator of a 5-year research project on climate change and risks of societal collapse funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Behavioural Scientist, CSIRO I am a behavioural scientist with expertise in social psychology working at the CSIRO, where I completed my Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2023. I have a PhD in Conservation Psychology from The University of Queensland. My interdisciplinary background and applied research focus on behavioural sciences, energy efficiency, sustainability, psychology, conservation and animal welfare has provided me with unique and extensive opportunity to gain national and international experience working with diverse stakeholders to create real world impact in the environmental field by bridging science and practice.
Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford I studied Geological Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and then completed a PhD in Volcanology, working on the Greek island volcano of Santorini, and in the East African Rift. After a Research Fellowship in Cambridge, including a year as a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology, I took up a lectureship in Earth Sciences in Cambridge in 1992. I moved to the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford in 2006. My research focusses on the behaviour and histories of young and active volcanoes. I have worked extensively on volcanoes in Latin America, Ethiopia, and the Caribbean; and have worked on the rapid-response to volcanic unrest and eruptions in a number of different settings. I am passionate about public and community engagement. Amongst others, I am involved with Oxford Sparks (http://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk); was part of the team that created Volcanoes Top Trumps (http://www.volcanoestoptrumps.org), and am currently working on the scientific, political and cultural responses to volcanic crises (https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/).
Postdoctorant en paléoécologie, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) Mes recherches se concentrent sur l'étude des interactions entre le climat, la végétation et les incendies dans la forêt boréale du Canada, à différentes échelles spatiales et temporelles. Pendant mon doctorat, j'ai reconstruit le régime des incendies à long terme dans le centre des Territoires du Nord-Ouest, et j'ai simulé la réponse de la végétation au climat et aux incendies à l'aide du modèle LPJ-LMfire pour les décennies à venir. Mes recherches actuelles se situent dans le domaine de la paléoécologie dans l'est du Canada, en tant que chercheur postdoctoral à l'institut de recherche sur les forêts à l'UQAT. Je participe activement au sein du réseau sur les forêts froides.
Professor of Marine Micropaleontology, University of Kiel As a marine micropaleontologist and paleoceanographer, I explore the environmental conditions of the past, using marine microfossils to study their evolution in interaction with the Earth's climate.
