Alistair Hobday

Dr Alistair Hobday works in CSIRO’s Sustainable Marine Futures Program and is based in Hobart, Australia. His research projects have included documenting the impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity (including seabirds) and fishery resources, and developing, prioritising and testing adaptation options to underpin sustainable use and conservation into the future. He has worked in multi-disciplinary teams and seeks to support management and policy uptake of research via co-production with stakeholders. Alistair co-founded the International Marine Heatwaves Group and the Oceania Ecological Forecasting Initiative. In 2018, he received the Australian Society for Fish Biology’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2023, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).