Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas

Principal Research Scientist

Dr Jess Melbourne-Thomas is a Principal Research Scientist with the Sustainable Marine Futures Program at CSIRO. Her research focuses on connecting science to decision making for climate change adaptation and sustainability. Jess has worked as a Lead Author with the IPCC and was the 2020 Tasmanian Australian of the Year.

Fun-fact

My husband was a commercial aquaculture diver for 10 years and I got so used to him coming home smelling like dead fish that when he switched jobs he smelt strange to me (basically he smelt fishy when he wasn’t smelling fishy).

Affiliation

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Centre for Marine Socioecology (CMS)

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