Gina M Newton
Dr Gina Newton has over 30 y experience implementing & brokering solutions at the science-policy interface in Australian Government agencies. Highlights include: undertaking several world-first aquatic landscape-scale assessments to list threatened 'ecosystems' under the EPBC Act (e.g. River Murray--Darling to Sea, Coastal Saltmarsh, Salt-wedge Estuaries), developing impactful evaluation and assessing riverine ecology outcomes for the Murray-Darling Basin Authority; managing Australia’s first assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change with the Australian Greenhouse Office, managing the Marine & Estuaries theme of National State of the Environment Reporting, and 8 years contributing to fisheries science with the Bureau of Resource Sciences, including the deep-sea ahd shelf fisheries of the Great Australian Bight. Gina also served for two years as Senior Science Policy Officer with the Australian Academy of Science and as National President of the Australian Marine Sciences Association. She is also a multi award-winning author of non-fiction and fiction children's books.
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