Gina M Newton
Dr Gina Newton has over 25 y experience implementing & brokering solutions at the science-policy interface in Australian Government agencies. Highlights include: developing impactful evaluation and assessing riverine ecology outcomes for the Murray-Darling Basin Authority; undertaking several world-first aquatic landscape-scale assessments to list threatened ecosystems under the EPBC Act (e.g. River Murray, Coastal Saltmarsh, Salt-wedge Estuaries), and managing Australia’s first assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change with the Australian Greenhouse Office. Gina also served for two years as Senior Science Policy Officer with the Australian Academy of Science, and as National President of the Australian Marine Sciences Association. She is also a multi award-winning children’s book author.
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