Post by The Australian National University

Associate Professor Ana Sequeira, a researcher from ANU College of Science & Medicine has been named Australia’s National Champion in the Frontiers Planet Prize, placing her among 25 leading scientists worldwide tackling the planet’s most urgent environmental challenges.  Her research, published in Science, represents one of the most comprehensive global efforts to date to understand how marine megafauna use the ocean.  The study brought together almost 400 researchers from around the world and, for the first time, combined satellite tracking data across more than 100 species – including whales, sharks, turtles and seabirds – to identify the areas they rely on for critical behaviours such as feeding, breeding and migration.  Associate Professor Sequeira will now progress to the final stage of the competition, with international champions to be announced later in the year.  Read more: quicklink.anu.edu.au/zr3j