Healthy Oceans
The Healthy Oceans Flagship aims to understand marine biodiversity and ecosystem function in a changing environment, to support sustainable ecosystem health, values and services.
Our science works to design and implement models and other tools to aid and inform ocean management, economic opportunities and conservation. We improve the understanding of marine ecosystem structure, function and health by providing data and analysis to support conservation and future focused ecosystem-based management approaches.
Chief Scientist - Healthy Oceans: Vonda Cummings
Vonda is a marine ecologist who has worked widely around New Zealand and Antarctica and has leadership roles in international Antarctic research programmes and expert groups. Her research focuses on the impacts of climate change, ocean acidification, and other anthropogenic pressures on marine environments, taking a holistic approach to understanding resilience and informing effective management and adaptation strategies.