Dr Laura Blamey is a quantitative marine ecologist at CSIRO based in Brisbane. Laura has experience with a range of modelling techniques as well as field work experience in both temperate and tropical ecosystems. She is interested in coastal socio-ecological systems, fisheries and climate change and her research integrates field data, ecosystem modelling and local knowledge to help better understand changes in these systems. Her research has involved modelling changes in key trophic species in reef ecosystems; detection of climate regime shifts and links to ecosystem change; and more recently, the inclusion of climate variables into ecological models such as MICE to dynamically quantify the impacts of a changing environment.