IMOS is delighted to announce that Dr Fabrice Jaine has been appointed as the IMOS Principal Science Officer.
Dr Fabrice Jaine has been involved with IMOS for over a decade in various capacities including as an end user of IMOS ocean observations, as a scientific officer, technical personnel and Deputy Leader for the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility, and as a member of the NSW IMOS Node steering committee.
Fabrice is a marine ecologist currently based at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science and Macquarie University with expertise in biophysical oceanography and animal tracking. His research interests have revolved around identifying habitat use patterns of marine species of management and conservation importance, and quantifying the influence of environmental variability, and specifically ocean dynamics and productivity, on the behaviour and distributions of animal populations.
Fabrice has spent the past seven years engaging IMOS stakeholders nationwide, optimising infrastructure deployments to fill knowledge gaps, fostering collaborative science, promoting best practices and data sharing among the Australian research community and pursuing opportunities to increase scientific relevance such as the development of new data products and tools that would address end user needs. Fabrice comes with a comprehensive understanding of the IMOS program and has worked closely with the AODN team to manage IMOS datasets and develop new IMOS data products.
Fabrice says “I’m excited about the opportunity to work with the IMOS Office and the broader IMOS community to deliver collaborative and sustained open-access observations that drive advances in ocean and climate science, industry, natural resource management, conservation and policy”.
Fabrice will commence as the IMOS Principal Science Officer in early December 2023.
IMOS will farewell the current Principal Science Officer Dr Paul van Ruth at the end of November. Paul has played a critical role in IMOS, both as the Principal Science Officer and previously as a Node leader in the South Australian Node, and we sincerely thank him for everything he has done. We will miss Paul but wish him all the best on his next career venture.