DoctorKatie Cresswell

Dr Katie Cresswell is Program Leader for Modelling and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, working as a Stock Assessment Scientist specialising in abalone and other benthic invertebrate fisheries. She works at the interface of fisheries assessment, ecology, and management, with a focus on quantitative stock assessment, population dynamics, and adaptive management under climate change.

Katie leads and contributes to assessments for Abalone, Longspined sea urchin, Banded morwong, Southern Calamari, Southern rock lobster, Octopus and several data‑limited scalefish fisheries, developing and applying size‑structured, length‑based, and process‑based stock assessment and management strategy evaluation models. Her research also includes larval dispersal and connectivity modelling to understand recruitment variability and inform spatial and cross‑jurisdictional fisheries management.