Dr Katie Sievers
Katie is a marine spatial ecologist and Research Fellow with the Livelihoods Lab at the Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture (CSTFA) and James Cook University. Currently, her role focuses on marine spatial planning practices in the Philippines, and building the capacity of civil society organisations to use spatially explicit data to help better manage their marine and maritime resources.
Her research background is in fish ecology and coral reef ecology, and her PhD at James Cook University explored the effects of multiple non-reef habitats on coral reef fishes. She used a combination of field surveys, fish collections, stable isotope analysis, remote sensing, and spatial analysis to explore how fishes are influenced by multiple habitats in the surrounding seascape. Her PhD work was conducted in the beautiful location of the Visayan region of the Philippines. Previously, she completed an MSc at San Diego State University, California, where she studied temperate reef fish ecology.
Email: katie.sievers@jcu.edu.au