The magical experience of diving in a kelp forest is like flying through a jungle surrounded by an amazing diversity of life, - Jessica Melbourne-Thomas

We have this traditional model where scientists go off and do their work, write a paper and publish it in a journal and hope that somebody who needs it picks it up and is able to make some kind of decision based on the information. But it doesn't work anymore because so many of the problems we have now are very urgent, and we need more efficient ways to connect science to policy.

I've come from being interested in understanding the fundamentals of ecology to thinking more about how humans interact with ecosystems and how we can better connect knowledge to decision making,

Those forests are now effectively gone because of climate change. It makes me sad when I think my kids won't have that same experience and get to see those environments the way I did.