Cindy 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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Reports
James Cook University researchers have found brightly coloured fish are becoming increasingly rare as coral declines, with the phenomenon likely to get worse in the future. Christopher Hemingson, a
Researchers working with stakeholders in the Great Barrier Reef region have come up with ideas on how groups responsible for looking after the reef can operate more effectively when the next bleaching
A new study has delivered a stark warning about the impacts of urban growth on the world’s coral reefs. As coastal developments expand at pace around the world, a year-long study of coral on a reef
Alarming new research shows global warming of 1.5°C relative to pre-industrial levels will be catastrophic for almost all coral reefs – including those once thought of as refuges. Associate Profes
Abstract: The past few years have seen unprecedented coral bleaching and mortality on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) but the consequences of this on biodiversity are not yet known. This talk will expl
Abstract: Molecular approaches have revolutionised our understanding of the systematics and evolution of most branches on the tree of life, including corals. Over the last twenty-five years molecula
Abstract: Outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) are a major driver of coral decline across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and compound upon the impacts of increasingly frequent and severe coral
Abstract: Being a new staff member at JCU, I will start with a short overview of my research. Next I will zoom in on a specific topic that I have been interested in for a long time: the impact of e
Abstract: The harsh truth is that, despite exciting innovations and increases in activity, ocean conservation is not succeeding, at least not fast enough. This is my conclusion from the last decad
This talk is the last of the parachute science seminar series organized by the ARC CoE Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee. Abstract Universities and institutions across th
This talk is the second of three on parachute science being organized by the ARC CoE Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee. Abstract For millenia, Traditional Owners have hel
This talk is the first of three on parachute science being organized by the ARC CoE Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) committee. Abstract Parachute science is the practice whereby
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