Carolyn Hogg

Prof Carolyn Hogg has been working on the conservation of threatened species for over thirty years both in Australia and overseas, and is the Professor of Biodiversity & Conservation at The University of Sydney. She integrates genomics into the management of threatened species using captive breeding and translocation to protect some of Australia's most threatened species including Tasmanian devils, orange-bellied parrots, red handfish, bilbies and woylies. Working closely with both her academic and conservation management partners Carolyn's vision is to create a conservation legacy for Australia by changing the way we integrate science, management and policy; to proactively promote species’ resilience in the face of a changing world. She is achieving this by developing better tools and technologies to integrate molecular genetics into real-time conservation management decisions. Carolyn is the Science-Lead for the Threatened Species Initiative, a project that has developed genomic resources for over 100 of Australia's threatened species, and an online conservation toolkit to upskill managers/practitioners in how to use these resources for science-based decisions and policy.