Episode 34: Graeme Ewing (IMAS)

Craig's interview guest for this episode is Graeme Ewing, a Senior Technical Officer and marine scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania. Graeme relates his interesting and multi-stepping​-stone path from university studies in psychology, a degree in chemistry, and various jobs involving chemistry, to eventually landing a job in the Tasmanian Department of Sea Fisheries at Taroona; his keenness to join the department having been spawned by a Christmas party! You will hear Graeme talk about otoliths ('ear bones') and their importance in determining the age, growth, and population biology of fish, and of the work he is currently involved with at IMAS across a "glad bag" of different species and their respective fisheries. He also talks of his conservation work for an isolated population of endemic skate in SW Tasmania. And the episode finishes with a delightful marine-flavoured song, composed by Graeme while doing reef fish surveys.