Tim Smith

Tim Smith has 20 years’ experience as a marine scientist developing a broad range of skills to understand habitat and fisheries dynamics in coastal ecosystems. His research specialises in seagrass and fisheries ecology and he has published on seagrass resilience, recovery and reproduction, habitat association, trophic dependence of fisheries species, stock connectivity and fisheries gear selectivity. Tim has a PhD in seagrass habitat connectivity and has undertaken research in Spain, Chile, Victoria, NSW and Queensland.

Tim's current research focuses on seagrass habitats in Northern Queensland and the Northern Territory and focuses on mapping and monitoring, seagrass restoration and recovery, and, fish assemblages of inshore habitats.