Jemina Stuart-Smith | Service & engagement | University of Tasmania

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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Ecology and Biodiversity

Ecology and Biodiversity

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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Ecology and Biodiversity
Ecology and Biodiversity

Jemina.StuartSmith@utas.edu.au (opens in a new tab)

University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, 20 Castray Esp, Battery Point, Tasmania, 7004, Australia

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MEDIA PUBLICATION
Tiny fish, big future: 65 red handfish released into the wild (opens in a new tab)⁠
17 Oct 2025
Australian Government media release
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Scientists Release 65 Captive-Raised Red Handfish into the Wild (opens in a new tab)⁠
6 Oct 2025
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Critically Endangered Fish Gets Helping Hand In Fight For Recovery (opens in a new tab)⁠
4 Oct 2025
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Rare red handfish population strengthened by pilot relocation study (opens in a new tab)⁠
4 Oct 2025
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Scientists release 65 captive-raised red handfish into the wild (opens in a new tab)⁠
3 Oct 2025
Media release
MEDIA PUBLICATION
See how marine heat waves ate spreading across the globe (opens in a new tab)⁠
10 Jun 2025
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Aussies amazed by adorable video of extremely rare species: 'Very cute' (opens in a new tab)⁠
29 May 2025
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Scientists Capture 'Adorable Little Greeting’ Between Extremely Rare Fish (opens in a new tab)⁠
3 May 2025
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Why scientists just bred these baby red fish with 'hands' in Tasmania (opens in a new tab)⁠
29 Mar 2025
MEDIA PUBLICATION
232 hatchlings: IMAS researchers triple endangered red handfish numbers (opens in a new tab)⁠
18 Dec 2024
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Red Handfish Hatchlings Triple Conservation Numbers (opens in a new tab)⁠
18 Dec 2024
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Friends of the Red Handfish: a dive into the archive (opens in a new tab)⁠
17 Dec 2024
RECOGNITION
2024 College Community Engagement Award
9 Sep 2024
FELLOWSHIP
Winston Churchill Fellowship (opens in a new tab)⁠
1 Sep 2024 - 31 Dec 2027
Six week international fellowship (undertaken in 2025, with funding for communication of results in 2027)
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Picture marking “significant” conservation milestone wins Beaker Street science photography prize (opens in a new tab)⁠
5 Aug 2024
MEDIA INTERVIEW
The World’s Rarest Fish Is Making A Comeback, One Ridiculous Baby At A Time (opens in a new tab)⁠
21 Mar 2024
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Saving Tassie’s rare walking fish (opens in a new tab)⁠
13 Mar 2024
(Online & print)
MEDIA INTERVIEW
Red handfish taken into captivity to protect them from severe marine heatwave in southern Tasmania (opens in a new tab)⁠
31 Jan 2024
MEDIA PUBLICATION
Baby love: 21 red handfish hatched in successful conservation breeding program (opens in a new tab)⁠
29 Nov 2023
MEDIA PUBLICATION
The battle to save Australia’s ultra rare grumpy fish (opens in a new tab)⁠
9 Jul 2023
(print & online)
MEDIA PUBLICATION
This Marine Biologist Is Fighting To Save a Very Peculiar-Looking Fish That ‘Walks’ on Its ‘Hands’ (opens in a new tab)⁠
5 Jun 2023
MEDIA INTERVIEW
The Foundation for Australia's most endangered species is awarding more than $1m to UTAS over the next four years to boost its population (opens in a new tab)⁠
17 May 2023
MEDIA INTERVIEW
Vital funding partnership announced to save Red Handfish from extinction (opens in a new tab)⁠
17 May 2023
MEDIA INTERVIEW
A helping hand (opens in a new tab)⁠
4 Apr 2023
How innovative fundraising is assisting one of our rarest fish.
MEDIA PUBLICATION
As oceans warm, temperate reef species edge closer to extinction, study shows (opens in a new tab)⁠
24 Mar 2023