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travelled, she details the personal influences
and career change moments that led her to

her transdisciplinary PhD journey on complex
socio-ecological systems. As she explains it,

she discovered along the way that general
attitudes regarding the relationship between

environment and society were pessimistic.
Most people view the current ecosystem as
being in crisis, and many believe that there

will be a future increase in power struggles

and inequality, and they foresee a general
breakdown in traditional systems. Motivated
to challenge and reverse this pessimism, Dr

Snow goes on, in the presentation, to
describe in detail the Ocean Sciences journey

that lies ahead. She presents the focal
research and engagement projects CMR is

undertaking, including iconic research
(photo right: Heather Snow)

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