DoctorJemina Stuart-Smith

Dr Jemina Stuart-Smith is a senior lecturer at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. Dr Stuart-Smith's focus is on threatened marine species recovery and ecosystem restoration. She co-leads the red handfish conservation effort and associated multi-species habitat restoration, and contributes to threatened sea star projects. Dr Stuart-Sith also co-leads the Handfish Conservation Project and is a member of the National Handfish Recovery Team (including lead of the Science subcommittee).

Biography
Dr Jemina Stuart-Smith has held various positions within the University of Tasmania since completing her PhD at UTAS in 2007. These include initially co-coordinating the South East Australian Reef Biodiversity Assessment project through Reef Life Survey program – a project linking volunteer divers, scientists and managers in marine research and conservation. Dr Stuart-Smith has since been involved in coordination of data for a national marine research database, and worked within the Marine Adaptation Network, assisted in the development of Redmap (Range Extension Database and Mapping project) at a national scale, and is now largely focussed on population recovery for threatened marine species - including recovery of the Critically Endangered red handfish and Live-bearing sea star. Dr Stuart-Smith also works on habitat restoration for threatened marine species (reef and seagrass).

Career summary
Qualifications
PhD Size Dimorphism in the Agamid Rankinia diemensis: Patterns, Adaptive Significance and Evolutionary Pathways. University of Tasmania. Australia, 2007
BSc (1st Class Hons). Maternal and environmental influences on the early life stages of the mountain dragon, Tympanocryptis diemensis. University of Tasmania. Australia, 2002

Memberships
National Handfish Recovery Team (main, and Science Committee lead)
IMAS threatened species and ecosystems team

Reef Life Survey life member
Redmap Australia National Steering Committee