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ManagementCindy Huchery
Senior Research Officer (On Maternity Leave)
MSc. (2007)
Program 1: People and Ecosystems
James Cook University
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
Senior Research Officer (On Maternity Leave)
MSc. (2007)
Program 1: People and Ecosystems
James Cook University
Originally from France, Cindy Huchery holds a Master’s in Ecology from the University of Paris 11. Her Master’s research project brought her to Australia in 2007 where she worked on coral reef fish ecology at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Darwin. She started being interested in people after volunteering on a field trip to East Timor with the Northern Territory Government, during which she worked with local East Timorese people to carry out marine habitat surveys for coastal mapping purposes. As a result, she decided to work in the interdisciplinary field that involves Social and Ecological Sciences and has since accumulated nine years of interdisciplinary experience ranging across academia and public policy. She was as a Research Associate at the School for Environmental Research of Charles Darwin University for 3 years, where she worked on applied projects using participatory research methods, like scenario planning, and has actively engaged with stakeholders including government agencies, farmers, Indigenous Australians, and the mining industry on issues related to natural resource management. For the last 6 years, she has been working as Research Scientist at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies of James Cook University, providing research and management support to dozens of research projects looking at coral reef ecology, and the human dimensions and governance of small-scale coral reef fisheries. I have just joined the WorldFish (a CGIAR Centre) team working on small-scale fisheries research for development.
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Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen biodiversity pattern of coral reef fishes that suggests some fishes might be exceptionally vulnerable to environmental change. A new study shows plank
Scientists say stable seafood consumption amongst the world’s poorer coastal communities is linked to how local habitat characteristics influence fishing at different times of the year. In the co
An international group of scientists is predicting markedly different outcomes for different species of coral reef fishes under climate change – and have made substantial progress on picking the ‘
New research has found as climate change causes the world’s oceans to warm, baby sharks are born smaller, exhausted, undernourished and into environments that are already difficult for them to survi
Abstract: The vast majority of reef fishes have a life history consisting of a pelagic larval phase of typically 20 to 60 days, followed by larval settlement where they remain through their juvenile a
Abstract: Social networks have been and remain important across the Pacific Islands, and beyond, for building and maintaining social-ecological resilience. However, there is little quantitative infor
Abstract: The global conservation community is comprised of a range of organisations, processes, and professionals. Given the diversity of these actors, and the complexity of the systems that conser
Abstract: Seasons create a rhythm in nature and, by extension, in the lives of people who depend directly on natural resources. However, our understanding of how seasons affect the ways that people
Abstract: Oceanic shark populations have declined 77% over the past 60 years as a result of overexploitation in fisheries. However, sustainable shark management is limited to a few developed nations
Abstract: Vertigo3 is a new class of small, fast and agile ‘true-flight’ underwater glider, purposely designed for robotic, artificial intelligence-assisted broadscale marine surveys, and capable
Abstract: Recurrent marine heat waves are leading to widespread coral bleaching, transforming the structure and function of tropical coral reefs. Past bleaching events have highlighted large variatio
Abstract: Shallow-water tropical seascapes typically include a range of habitat types such as coral reefs, mangroves, macroalgal and seagrass beds. These habitats can occur in close proximity and are
Partner Research Institutions
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au