Meet the presenters
Research Scientist with Phillip Island Nature Parks (PINP) since 2013, Rebecca has worked with marine predators for over 20 years with a focus on seals.
Ellie Collins has a passion for connecting people to our local marine environment and is the Education Manager at Dolphin Research Institute.
Ella Hutchinson is a Melbourne-based marine researcher whose lifelong love of the ocean underpins her work in marine mammal research, conservation, and community engagement.
Cara Hull is a marine ecologist with over 30 years of scuba diving experience and a lifelong passion for ocean conservation.
Belinda is senior science reporter with ABC Science and hosts the weekly Radio National program Lab Notes. Her work's appeared on the BBC World Service and in the Best Australian Science Writing anthology 2016, 2018, 2023 and 2024.
Peter is a Bass Coast photographer whose style is very much based on the theme of Eco Photography.
Ruairidh Duncan is a PhD candidate and palaeoartist at Monash University and Museums Victoria. He primarily works on the earliest ancestors of baleen whales found in Victoria and throughout the Pacific from the Oligocene: the toothed mysticetes.
Uncle Steve Ulula Parker is a Traditional Custodian of Boonwurrung Country. He is an artist, musician, performer, cultural educator and a mentor of Indigenous youth.
Dr Mason has the privilege of teaching and sharing her passion for Science with the incredible girls at Camberwell Girls Grammar School.
A palaeontologist and science communicator and Ben is on the hunt for the largest predators that have ever existed.
David Donnelly is a Melbourne based marine researcher and science communicator with a passion for marine conservation.
Chris has had a passion for nature for his entire life which now spans over 5 decades and since 2013 Chris began using his skills to help with the photographic identification of the endangered Southern Right Whale as a citizen scientist.
Zev is a published cartoonist and illustrator whose artwork celebrates the ridiculousness of life through humour.