From her Future Reefs lab at the University Technology Sydney, coral reef expert Dr Emma Camp looks at how science can help restore and future proof Australia’s threatened coral reefs. With a practice founded in conservation and community collaboration we spoke about the world of coral – their ecology, reef restoration and her search for naturally heat tolerant super corals.
Bio:
Associate Professor Emma Camp is a marine biologist and the Team Leader of the Future Reefs Team at the University of Technology Sydney. Her teams research ranges from organism scale molecular signatures to broad scale ecological interactions, and specialise in advancing technical solutions to help preserve and re-build healthy reefs. In 2018, Emma co-Founded Coral Nurture Program, a science-tourism partnership to repopulate corals on the Great Barrier Reef. She is a leading coral expert, with her research recognised through numerous awards, including being names a 2024 World Economic Forum Young leader, the 2021 Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher and in 2020 was named a Next Generation Leader by Time Magazine.
Hosted and produced by Catherine Polcz with music by Carl Didur.