I am an early-career ecologist with an interest in wetland and riparian environments. I am currently undertaking my PhD at the University of New England, investigating the effects of cold-water pollution on freshwater turtle behaviour and physiology.

Professor Jenny Davis is a member of the Research Institute for Environment and Livelihood (RIEL), in the Faculty of Science and Technology, at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory. Jenny is a freshwater ecologist who has contributed to the global understanding of inland waters through research on wetland loss, hydrological change, eutrophication, salinisation, and adaptation to global warming. Over her career Jenny has contributed to many Australia committees on the conservation and management of wetlands, rivers and groundwater dependent ecosystems. She is currently leading a citizen science project to collect baseline groundwater data across northern Australia. She also leads a long term camera trapping project to record changes in faunal biodiversity at central Australian waterholes to help understand the impacts of a warming world.

I am a research scientist and lecturer and I lead the MARIS lab at the University of South Australia (www.marislab.org). My research spans marine ecology, fisheries, and animal biology with outcomes that support conservation, sustainable seafood production, and food security. Everything I do is underpinned by my mission to ensure science is not hidden behind closed doors but is communicated to the broader community. I am passionate about science communication and storytelling and I work regularly with radio, TV, and print media in Australia and overseas. If you would like to know more about what I do, or have an opportunity to work together, please get in touch (zoe.doubleday@unisa.edu.au) or check out my website (above) and social media profiles (LinkedIn, Instagram, and Blue Sky).

I am a marine biology PhD candidate, specialising in ecophysiology and benthic ecology. I am particularly fond of crustaceans, and understanding how climate change is impacting this incredible group of animals.

Dr Inês Leal is a Research Scientist working at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) in Western Australia. She monitors and researches invertebrate communities across WA’s marine parks, from the south coast all the way up in the Pilbara. Inês completed her PhD from the University of Quebec (Canada) in 2020, focusing on the drivers of recruitment in benthic species from a supply-side ecology perspective, sampling in remote locations from the Arctic to central America. Passionate about all marine invertebrates and their ecology, she will be raising awareness about a group of invertebrates that tends to be less charismatic – sea cucumbers. These species have suffered a drastic decline in recent years in Northern Australia, and ESA 2025 is the perfect platform to raise attention to the importance and vulnerability of these organisms.

I'm a landscape epidemiologist and disease ecologist with the Sydney School of Public Health and the Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases. I'm interested in the complex ecologies of zoonotic pathogens and their interaction with hosts, vectors, and environments in shaping risk. As such, I combine methods from spatial and infectious disease epidemiology with applications of biogeography, community ecology, and macroecology to employ transdisciplinary One Health approaches to zoonosis inference, prediction, surveillance, and prevention. I'm particularly interested in the ways in which interactions between wildlife, domesticated animals, and humans in anthropogenic landscapes facilitate pathogen spillover from primary reservoir hosts to novel hosts.