Gretta Pecl

Pecl is from Tasmania.{{Cite web|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1508545|title=Pecl, Gretta - People and organisations|website=Trove|language=en|access-date=2019-05-29}} She earned her bachelor's degree at James Cook University in 1994,{{Cite web|url=http://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/imas/Gretta-Pecl|title=Gretta Pecl - Profiles|website=Profiles - University of Tasmania, Australia|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-05-29}} completing an undergraduate dissertation on the muscle structure and dynamics of Idiosepius pygmaeus. Pecl remained at James Cook University for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in 2000. Her doctoral thesis compared the life-history variation of two closely related cephalopod species, Sepioteuthis australis and Sepioteuthis lessoniana, on the east coast of Australia.{{Cite thesis|title=Comparative life history of tropical and temperate Sepioteuthis squids in Australian waters|url=https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/24094/|publisher=James Cook University|date=2000|degree=PhD|first=Gretta T.|last=Pecl|access-date=29 May 2019|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529215937/https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/24094/|url-status=live}} Her research continued into a Fisheries Research and Development Corporation and Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tasmania, looking at the movement of Sepioteuthis australis using acoustic location and trace element analysis.

Pecl studies the ecology of climate change, in particular, what happens to wildlife in warming oceans.{{Citation|last=University of Tasmania|title=Changing Oceans - Gretta Pecl|date=2015-06-04|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUPwGoP2bzo|access-date=2019-05-29|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512213152/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUPwGoP2bzo|url-status=live}}{{Citation|title=ICES ASC 2019 - Keynote by Gretta Pecl|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeK27HGUB0E|language=en|access-date=2021-07-06|archive-date=12 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812090254/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeK27HGUB0E|url-status=live}} She has primarily investigated the warming waters off the coast of Tasmania. In 2009, Pecl founded the Range Extension Database and Mapping project (Redmap), a crowdsourced map which collects public sightings of fish, after attending a workshop and listening to fishers share information about recent sightings.{{Cite web|url=http://www.redmap.org.au/|title=Redmap|website=Redmap|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-05-29|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529215936/http://www.redmap.org.au/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://ecologyforthemasses.com/2018/10/31/gretta-pecl-climate-change-in-australian-waters/|title=Gretta Pecl: Climate Change in Coastal Waters|date=2018-10-31|website=Ecology for the Masses|language=en|access-date=2019-05-29|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529215936/https://ecologyforthemasses.com/2018/10/31/gretta-pecl-climate-change-in-australian-waters/|url-status=live}} The project uses a team of scientists to verify submitted photographs, and can make people more aware of climate change as they notice repeated changes in their own environments.Pecl, G. T., Stuart-Smith, J., Walsh, P., Bray, D. J., Kusetic, M., Burgess, M., Frusher, S. D., Gledhill, D. C., George, O., Jackson, G., Keane, J., Martin, V. Y., Nursey-Bray, M., Pender, A., Robinson, L. M., Rowling, K., Sheaves, M., & Moltschaniwskyj, N. (2019). "Redmap Australia: Challenges and Successes With a Large-Scale Citizen Science-Based Approach to Ecological Monitoring and Community Engagement on Climate Change". Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00349 Redmap was awarded the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Whitely Award in 2010.{{Cite journal|title=2010 Whitley Awards|journal=Australian Zoologist|volume=35|issue=4|pages=996–1004|doi=10.7882/AZ.2011.054|year=2011}}

In 2009, Pecl was awarded a Fulbright Program scholarship to join the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and study how climate change had impacted the red king crab. The next year she was named one of the University of Tasmania's "Rising Stars".{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldsciencefestival.com.au/speakers/gretta-pecl-2017/|title=Gretta Pecl 2017|website=World Science Festival Brisbane|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-29}} She has formed an International Global Marine Hotspots Network (GMHN) with colleagues to bring users and managers of the sea together.{{Cite web|url=https://www.asfb.org.au/about/current-executive-council/show/1739|title=Executive Council » Australian Society For Fish Biology|website=www.asfb.org.au|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-05-29|archive-date=16 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200316082916/http://asfb.org.au/about/current-executive-council/show/1739|url-status=dead}} In 2015, Pecl was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to study the physiological and ecological mechanisms that underpin the redistribution of species through marine systems.{{Cite web|last=Australia|first=Women in STEMM|date=2017-11-19|title=STEMM PROFILE: Professor Gretta Pecl, PhD {{!}} Marine Ecologist {{!}} University of Tasmania {{!}} Hobart {{!}}TAS|url=https://womeninscienceaust.org/portfolio/stemm-profile-associate-professor-gretta-pecl-phd-marine-ecologist-university-of-tasmania-hobart-tas/|access-date=2019-05-29|website=Women in STEMM Australia|language=en|archive-date=12 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512213153/https://womeninscienceaust.org/portfolio/stemm-profile-associate-professor-gretta-pecl-phd-marine-ecologist-university-of-tasmania-hobart-tas/|url-status=dead}} In 2017, Pecl studied how the redistribution of land and fresh water species due to climate change affects human health, wellbeing, and culture.{{Cite web|title=Species on the move having a big impact|url=https://phys.org/news/2017-03-climate-driven-species-affect-humans.html|access-date=2019-05-29|website=phys.org|language=en-us|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529215935/https://phys.org/news/2017-03-climate-driven-species-affect-humans.html|url-status=live}} These impacts include tourism, recreational fishing, and health threats such as malaria. She served as editor-in-chief of Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries from 2014 to 2019{{Cite web|url=http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/11160|title=Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries – incl. option to publish open access (Editorial Board)|website=springer.com|language=en|access-date=2019-05-29|archive-date=14 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414074617/https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/11160|url-status=live}} and an associate editor for Citizen Science: Theory and Practice from 2016 to 2020. She was elected to the Australian Society for Fish Biology Hall of Fame in 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.asfb.org.au/hall-of-fame/|title=Hall of Fame » Australian Society For Fish Biology|website=www.asfb.org.au|access-date=2019-05-29|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529215937/https://www.asfb.org.au/hall-of-fame/|url-status=live}}

File:Gretta Pecl at the 2016 Australian Society for Fish Biology conference in Hobart, Tasmania.jpg

Pecl became the Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology at the University of Tasmania in 2018. The Centre is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Tasmania, the CSIRO and the Australian Antarctic Division which aims to understand the interactions between the ecological and social aspects of marine conservation and management.{{Cite web|title=About us - Centre for Marine Socioecology|url=https://marinesocioecology.org/about-us/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=marinesocioecology.org|archive-date=29 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629054505/https://marinesocioecology.org/about-us/|url-status=live}}Centre for Marine Socioecology. (2020). "Annual Report". Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. https://marinesocioecology.org/wp-content/uploads/CMS_Annual-Report-2020_Email.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629054458/https://marinesocioecology.org/wp-content/uploads/CMS_Annual-Report-2020_Email.pdf |date=29 June 2021 }}. Retrieved 29 June 2021. In 2021 she created the Future Seas initiative, which aims to encourage interdisciplinary scientific collaboration to improve society's capacity to manage ocean systems as part of the United Nations' Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.{{Cite web|last=Future Seas|date=2021|title=What is Future Seas?|url=https://futureseas2030.org/|access-date=29 June 2021|website=|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624131211/https://futureseas2030.org/|url-status=live}}

Pecl was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report, responsible for the "Great Barrier Reef", "Oceans", "Tourism", "Marine food" and "Indigenous peoples" sections of the Australasian chapter, and the "Fisheries on the Move", "Indigenous knowledge & climate adaptation", and "Climate change & water borne disease" cross chapter boxes within the main report. The report is due to be released in 2022.{{Cite web|title=AR6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability — IPCC|url=https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/|access-date=2021-06-22|archive-date=18 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318140208/https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/|url-status=live}}

Citizen science is a key approach to Pecl's research, and she is heavily involved in science communication and engagement.Pecl, G., Gillies, C., Sbrocchi, C., & Roetman, P. (2015). [https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/sites/default/files/Citizen-science-OP_web.pdf Building Australia Through Citizen Science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321012111/https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/sites/default/files/Citizen-science-OP_web.pdf |date=21 March 2021 }}. Office of the Chief Scientist: Occasional Paper Series, July (11), 1–4.{{Cite web|title=Dr Greta Pecl on climate change, warming water, the fishing industry and the marine ecosystem|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-06-05/dr-greta-pecl-on-climate-change-warming-water-the/6225910|access-date=2021-06-22|website=www.abc.net.au|language=en-AU|archive-date=18 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218224610/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-06-05/dr-greta-pecl-on-climate-change-warming-water-the/6225910|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|last=Pecl|first=Gretta|date=20 September 2012|title=Gretta Pecl writes: value in the deep|work=The Mercury: Let's Make Tasmania Great Special Edition|publisher=News Corp Australia|publication-place=Hobart, Tasmania}} Pecl has written three articles for The Conversation{{Cite web|title=Gretta Pecl|url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/gretta-pecl-128477|access-date=2019-05-29|website=The Conversation|language=en|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529215935/https://theconversation.com/profiles/gretta-pecl-128477|url-status=live}} to communicate her research regarding species' range shifts, the effects of climate change on Australian fishery species, and citizen science.{{Cite web|last1=Hobday|first1=Alistair|last2=Fulton|first2=Beth|last3=Pecl|first3=Gretta|title=Warming oceans are changing Australia's fishing industry|url=http://theconversation.com/warming-oceans-are-changing-australias-fishing-industry-98301|access-date=2021-06-18|website=The Conversation|language=en|archive-date=28 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628071519/https://theconversation.com/warming-oceans-are-changing-australias-fishing-industry-98301|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last1=Vergés|first1=Adriana|last2=Popova|first2=Ekaterina|last3=Pecl|first3=Gretta|last4=McDonald|first4=Jan|title=Climate-driven species on the move are changing (almost) everything|url=http://theconversation.com/climate-driven-species-on-the-move-are-changing-almost-everything-74752|access-date=2021-06-18|website=The Conversation|language=en|archive-date=29 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629004431/https://theconversation.com/climate-driven-species-on-the-move-are-changing-almost-everything-74752|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last1=Pecl|first1=Gretta|last2=Stuart-Smith|first2=Jemina|last3=Sunday|first3=Jennifer|last4=Moltschaniwskyj|first4=Natalie|title=How you can help scientists track how marine life reacts to climate change|url=http://theconversation.com/how-you-can-help-scientists-track-how-marine-life-reacts-to-climate-change-33370|access-date=2021-06-18|website=The Conversation|language=en|archive-date=28 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628182921/https://theconversation.com/how-you-can-help-scientists-track-how-marine-life-reacts-to-climate-change-33370|url-status=live}} In 2020, Pecl helped develop an educational card game of Tasmanian marine species.{{Cite web|last=Redmap Team|date=2020|title=Time to 'Go Fish!' – Redmap playing cards|url=https://www.redmap.org.au/news/2020/01/15/time-to-go-fish--redmap-playing-cards/|access-date=22 June 2021|website=Redmap}} She has been involved in numerous public outreach events to educate stakeholders and communities on the impacts of climate change.{{Cite web|title=Wineglass Bay walk {{!}} Sci Art Walks|url=https://www.sciartwalks.com.au/wineglass-bay-walk|access-date=2021-06-22|website=Sciartwalks|language=en|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205107/https://www.sciartwalks.com.au/wineglass-bay-walk|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Pecl|first=Gretta|date=2020|title=This is how scientists feel|url=https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/this-is-how-scientists-feel.html#gretta|access-date=22 June 2021|website=Is This How You Feel?|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624070132/https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/this-is-how-scientists-feel.html#gretta|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Anderson|first=John|title=Curious Climate Tasmania|url=https://curiousclimate.org.au/|access-date=2021-06-22|language=en-AU|archive-date=30 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730150550/https://curiousclimate.org.au/|url-status=live}}

Pecl was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours for "significant service to science, particularly ecological research, and to tertiary education".{{Cite web |title=Professor Gretta Pecl |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3026615 |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility |archive-date=9 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609211143/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3026615 |url-status=live }}

• Pecl, G., Ogier, E., Jennings, S., van Putten, I., Crawford, C., Fogarty, H., Frusher, S., Hobday, A. J., Keane, J., Lee, E., MacLeod, C., Mundy, C., Stuart-Smith, J., & Tracey, S. (2019). "Autonomous adaptation to climate-driven change in marine biodiversity in a global marine hotspot". Ambio, 48 (12): 1498–1515. doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01186-x
• Scheffers, B. R., & Pecl, G. (2019). Persecuting, protecting or ignoring biodiversity under climate change. Nature Climate Change, 9 (8): 581–586. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0526-5
• Pecl, G. T., Araújo, M. B., Bell, J. D., Blanchard, J., Bonebrake, T. C., Chen, I.-C., Clark, T. D., Colwell, R. K., Danielsen, F., Evengård, B., Falconi, L., Ferrier, S., Frusher, S., Garcia, R. A., Griffis, R. B., Hobday, A. J., Janion-Scheepers, C., Jarzyna, M. A., Jennings, S., Lenoir, J., Linnetved, H. I., Martin, V. Y., McCormack, P. C., McDonald, J., Mitchell, N. J., Mustonen, T., . Pandolfi, J. M., Pettorelli, N., Popova, E., Robinson, S. A., Scheffers, B. R., Shaw, J. D., Sorte, C. J. B., Strugnell, J. M., Sunday, J. M., Tuanmu, M.-N., Vergés, A., Villanueva, C., Wernberg, T., Wapstra, E., Williams, S. E. (2017). "Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being". Science, 355 (6332). doi.org/10.1126/science.aai9214
• Johnson, C. R., Banks, S. C., Barrett, N. S., Cazassus, F., Dunstan, P. K., Edgar, G. J., Frusher, S. D., Gardner, C., Haddon, M., Helidoniotis, F., Hill, K. L., Holbrook, N. J., Hosie, G. W., Last, P. R., Ling, S. D., Melbourne-Thomas, J., Miller, K., Pecl, G. T., Richardson, A. J., Ridgway, K. R., Rintoul, S. R., Ritz, D. A., Ross, D. J., Sanderson, J. C., Shepherd, S. A., Swadling, K. M., Taw, N. (2011). "Climate change cascades: Shifts in oceanography, species’ ranges and subtidal marine community dynamics in eastern Tasmania". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 400 (1–2): 17–32. doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.032
• Last, P. R., White, W. T., Gledhill, D. C., Hobday, A. J., Brown, R., Edgar, G. J., & Pecl, G. (2011). "Long-term shifts in abundance and distribution of a temperate fish fauna: A response to climate change and fishing practices". Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20 (1): 58–72. doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00575.x

Gretta Pecl is separated with two children.{{Cite web|url=https://akidemiclife.com/news/interview-gretta-pecl-work-life-balance|title=Interview with Professor Gretta Pecl on work-life balance|website=aKIDemic Life|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-05-29|archive-date=29 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529215936/https://akidemiclife.com/news/interview-gretta-pecl-work-life-balance|url-status=live}} She is on the advisory board of aKIDemic life, a free resource hub for academics with caring responsibilities.{{Cite web|title=Akidemic Life|url=https://iamas.com/akidemic-life/|access-date=2021-06-22|website=IAMAS|language=en-US|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624202332/https://iamas.com/akidemic-life/|url-status=live}}

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