I'm a marine ecologist who studies the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of marine heatwaves. Across my career to date, I have explored how marine species, from individual to community level, respond to environmental change. I led the first global assessment of how marine heatwaves affect coastal foundation species such as kelp, seagrass and corals (Smith et al. 2024). This project takes the next step: finding out which kelp forests can recover.
