Lyn Goldsworthy 2024 Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting combined with NZMSS

Lyn Goldsworthy

Lyn(da) has extensive experience across Antarctic and marine policy development, governance and conservation research, from both the non-government and academic perspective. She has been actively involved at the policy level of Antarctic and global high seas issues since 1983 and has attended multiple meetings of the Antarctic Treaty System, UN Climate Change, and Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Arrangement (SIOFA) and the South Pacific Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFM0). She completed a Ph.D. in 2022 at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania on the viability of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in the geopolitically dynamic and climate changing environment. She is currently a Research Associate at IMAS, undertaking research focusing on high seas marine governance and responses to climate and biodiversity protection actions. She also undertakes consultancy work on high seas governance. Since 2018 she has been a Member of AFMA's SouthMAC Advisory Committee, and CSIRO'S National Benefits Advisory Committee since 2023. Lyn was awarded the Order of Australia (Member) for services to conservation and environment in 1991 and the New Zealand Antarctic Conservation Trophy in 1990. She is married and lives on the South Coast of NSW.