Outreach and media

Public engagement, media coverage, talks, and awards.

Fish and marine environments are important to people, so a lot of our job happens outside academic journals. We talk with anglers, clubs, schools, and the media about new fish research and careers in the marine sciences.

Recognition across the lab

2026

Tasmanian Young Tall Poppy of the Year

Harriet Goodrich staff

Journal of Experimental Biology ECR Visiting Fellowship

Harriet Goodrich staff

Michael Hall Student Innovation Award, runner up

Nicolas Tsanis Horniblow student

Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment

Finlay Rossiter-Hill student with Harriet Goodrich as co-investigator

Earlier years

2025

Falling Walls Lab Hobart, finalist

Harriet Goodrich staff

Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment

Rachel Breslin student with Harriet Goodrich as co-investigator

Michael Hall Student Innovation Award, runner up

Rachel Breslin student

2024

Forbes 30 Under 30

Harriet Goodrich staff

2023

Filling the knowledge gaps to recover Tasmania’s favourite recreational fishery

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation grant

Harriet Goodrich, co-investigator staff

2022

Experimental Platforms for Aquaculture Production

Blue Economy CRC grant

Harriet Goodrich, co-investigator staff

In the media

A few highlights.

ABC Radio Hobart Listen

Afternoons

Nicolas Tsanis Horniblow talks sand flathead on local radio

ABC Radio Listen

Tasmanian Country Hour

An interview with Harriet Goodrich

Conservation Physiology · 2026 Read

Fishing filters flathead form and function in Tasmania

A journal commentary on our phenotypic divergence paper

Falling Walls · 2025 Watch

Falling Walls Lab Australia

Falling Walls Lab gives early-career researchers three minutes to pitch an idea that could break down a barrier in science or society. Harriet was a finalist at Falling Walls Lab Hobart

J Exp Biol · 2024 Read

ECR Spotlight, Harriet Goodrich

An interview with early-career authors in the Journal of Experimental Biology, on specific dynamic action as the energy cost of digestion or growth

Video · 2019 Watch

Optimising diets for sustainable aquaculture

Harriet on how better feeds can make fish farming more sustainable

The Conversation · 2018 Read

How did the fish cross the road? Our invention helps them get to the other side of a culvert

Our work helping small native fish swim upstream through road culverts, later picked up in ten feelgood environment stories of 2018

Video · 2018 Watch

Keeping fish highways moving

Harriet on keeping rivers passable so native fish can get from A to B

Talks

ICBF 2026

Legacy effects of fishing on the climate resilience of fish

International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Vancouver. Respiration session.

ICBF 2026

Specific dynamic action and other related inconveniences

International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Vancouver. Mechanisms session.

SEB 2026

Physiological and behavioural consequences of human-wildlife interactions

Society for Experimental Biology, Florence. Session organised with Barrett Wolfe.

SEB 2025

Who gets hooked? Phenotypic divergence of Tasmania’s most popular recreational fish

Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference, July 2025.

Want us to speak to your club, group, or school? Get in touch.