Jessica Melbourne-Thomas

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Jessica Melbourne-Thomas
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (born 17 May 1981)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
, Australia. Her research focuses on climate change, its effects on the marine environment, and how to adapt and response to these changes.

Early life and education

Melbourne-Thomas completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Tasmania in 2002. She then moved to the UK to the University of Oxford to undertake her Rhodes Scholarship from 2003-2005 working on coral community dynamics.[2][3] In 2010 she completed her PhD, which developed modelling tools to assist managers in their management of coral reefs, at the University of Tasmania.[4]

Career

Melbourne-Thomas is a marine ecologist and knowledge broker.[5] Her research focuses on bridging the gap between complex scientific research and decision-making for sustainability, particularly in relation to climate change adaptation. She worked as an ecosystem modeller and science communicator with the Australian Antarctic Division.[6] She was a lead author for the IPCC's Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate in 2019.[7][8]

Melbourne-Thomas is highly engaged in science communication and the translation of science into decision-making, including through outreach to end-users and policy briefings. She is a co-presenter for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Open2Study entitled Marine and Antarctic Science.[9] She was named Tasmania's Young Tall Poppy of the Year in 2015 and was one of Science and Technology Australia's first 30 Superstars of STEM.[10]

Melbourne-Thomas was also the co-founder, along with business entrepreneur Fabian Dattner, of the first

Homeward Bound voyage, which is an Australian-led, global initiative to foster women's leadership in science.[11][12] Recognizing the difficulties women in science careers have in obtaining funding, balancing the demands of families and careers, the initiative is privately funded.[13] Her role was to coordinate the science program for the 2016 Homeward Bound program.[14] When challenges prevented the group of 76 global women scientists of varying specialities from sailing out of Australia, Melbourne-Thomas worked to reorganize the launch out of Ushuaia, Argentina.[13][15] After completion of the research trip, applications were opened for a second voyage and the team was finalized in 2017. They sailed on their second expedition in 2018.[15]

She was one of 12 noted female scientists to be featured as a constellation on the ceiling of the Grand Central Station (New York City) as part of GE's Balance the Equation Initiative.[16][17]

Melbourne-Thomas is the 2020 Tasmanian Australian of the Year.

Melbourne-Thomas has been published in

Frontiers in Marine Science, Global Change Biology,[19] Ecology and Society[20] Ecological Applications,[21] Journal of Marine Systems,[22] and PLoS One.[23]

Awards and honors

Selected works and publications

References

  1. ^ "Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas". Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women. 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Jess Melbourne-Thomas Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas". Science & Technology Australia. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Dr Jessica Melbourne-Thomas". Australia Antarctic Division. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Dr Jessica Melbourne-Thomas". CSIRO. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Female scientist Tas Aussie of the Year". Canberra Times. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Modelling marine futures with maths". The University of Tasmania. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Australia: Ecosystems Expert to Compile Collective Climate Change Knowledge". Mena Report. 21 August 2017. Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018 – via HighBeam Research.
  9. ^ "Marine and Antarctic Science (Marine)". Open 2 Study. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  10. ^ a b "2015 Tasmanian Tall Poppy Winners". AIPS. 2015. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  11. ^ "Largest Ever All-Female Expedition Sets Sail For Antarctica". HuffPost. 3 December 2016.
  12. ^ "Homeward Bound Vogue Game Changers 2018 - Vogue Australia". Vogue. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  13. ^ a b "Largest all-women expedition heads to Antarctica". BBC. London, England. 1 December 2016. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017.
  14. ^ Scott, Katy (22 June 2017). "How women in science are setting themselves up to save our planet". CNN. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  15. ^ a b Burgos, Alejandra (26 July 2017). "Antártida, mujeres y liderazgo" [Antarctica, women and leadership]. El País (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Archived from the original on 14 July 2018.
  16. ^ "Rewriting The Stars: Women Scientists Shine Amid Grand Central's Constellations - GE Reports". GE Reports. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  17. ^ Syckle, Katie Van. "Female Scientists Will Be Honored in a Light Show at Grand Central". The Cut. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  18. ISSN 1054-3139
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  19. PMID 28211250
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  20. hdl:10535/7653
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  21. PMID 21774437
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  22. ISSN 0924-7963
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  23. PMID 24260347
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  24. ^ "Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas". scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  25. ^ "Meet the finalists of the 2017 Women's Agenda Leadership Awards". Women's Agenda. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  26. ^ McCormack, Ange (3 July 2017). "Government names 30 amazing women doing groundbreaking work in STEM". Hack. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  27. ^ "Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas". Australian of the Year Awards. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2022.

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