Theme Leaders
Dr Sarah Jennings (University of Tasmania) is a natural resource economist with particular expertise in applied welfare analysis, including cost-benefit analysis and non-market valuation.  Her involvement in marine economics includes the evaluation of climate change impacts and adaptation strategies, and exploration of the behavioural responses of recreational fishers to climate-induced changes in the quality of recreational fishing opportunities and policies.  Sarah leads the FRDC’s Fisheries Economics Capability Building Project.

Dr Ingrid van Putten is a post-doctoral fellow with the ecosystems modelling team at the CSIRO Centre for Marine and Atmospheric research. She is a social scientist and has been working with biophysical scientists to gain a better understanding of coupled social-ecological systems. The main focus of her research is to formulate, implement and apply quantitative models of human behaviour in the context of the ecosystems models for the marine environment and climate change. Because complexity in the bio-physical sphere is mirrored in social and economic systems, she focuses on the tools that effectively model social and economic data and aims to find the optimum level of complexity for human behaviour models.

Partner Organisers
Dr Kathleen Broderick (Natural Resource Management - South) has research interests in communities, social and ecological systems, adaptive management, learning in environmental management, environmental restoration and recovery of resources.






Prof Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU), Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Otago and Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. His interests in marine research are in terms of marine reserves, incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries, trans-national fisheries management, and the economic overexploitation of capture fisheries




Prof Tom Kompas is Deputy Director of the Crawford School of Economics and Government and Director of the Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also a part-time Senior Research Economist at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE). He specialises in economic dynamics, agricultural economics, productivity, and natural resource and environmental economics.




Research Associate
Dr Eriko Hoshino is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Economics and Finance (University of Tasmania), and the Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, Fisheries Aquaculture & Coast (IMAS-FAC).  Her research interests include fisheries economics, bioeconomic modelling, and management strategy evaluations.  She is a member of the markets team, and a member of the interdisciplinary team of researchers, exploring options for climate change adaptation in the marine environment.  She is also co-investigator of the CRC-funded projects for the Southern rock lobster and Australian abalone fisheries, developing bioeconomic decision support tools.