RIEL seminar series
The world is your oyster, when oysters are your world
| Presenter | Dr Samantha Nowland | |
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| Contact person | E: RIEL.Outreach@cdu.edu.au | |
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Savanna Room, Yellow 1.2.48 at CDU Casuarina Campus, and online via Zoom (see below for link) NOTE: times are ACST (Darwin time) |
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| Open to | Public | |
Dr Samantha Nowland is Senior Aquaculture Scientist at the Darwin Aquaculture Centre in the Fisheries Division of the NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade. She is also Adjunct Research Fellow with the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University.
Samantha has a dream to see local communities supplying markets with a premium, native oyster, which has been sustainably grown in north Australia’s pristine waters. To support this goal Samantha was awarded the Yulgilbar Foundation Churchill Fellowship to investigate current challenges and possible solutions facing remote Aboriginal communities farming native rock oysters. In June and July 2023 Samantha travelled for six weeks, to three countries on two continents, to meet experts and innovators and find solutions.
This seminar, ‘The world is your oyster, when oysters are your world: Churchill Fellowship to investigate current challenges and possible solutions facing remote Aboriginal communities farming native rock oysters’, will focus on learnings from the Indigenous-led aquaculture ventures that she visited.
Samantha has been working alongside Aboriginal communities, universities and government departments to assess the technical, economic and socioeconomic feasibility of native oyster aquaculture since 2014. She has a background in marine biology and aquaculture, and her current areas of research interest include tropical aquaculture, research for development and women’s leadership in the seafood industry. Samantha is a Territorian and is passionate about her work to support a vibrant and productive aquaculture industry across northern Australia and the Indo-Pacific.
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