We are pleased to announce that the Ant-ICON | SC-ATS Fellowship report from Noémie Friscourt (Research Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania) is now available.
Noémie’s fellowship (July 2024 – July 2025) supported her participation in CCAMLR meetings and related working groups, and the preparation of a science-policy background paper titled “Antarctic fur seals as bioindicators of seasonal and ocean-basin scale variation in the Southern Ocean food web.” The fellowship gave her first-hand experience in the science-policy interface and strengthened links between her ecological research on Antarctic fur seals and CCAMLR’s ecosystem monitoring priorities.
The Ant-ICON | SC-ATS Science-Policy Fellowship Programme is designed to give early-career researchers direct exposure to Antarctic policy fora and to help them translate their science into policy-relevant outputs. During her fellowship Noémie worked at the intersection of trophic-ecology research and management needs: her research on Antarctic fur seals – a CEMP indicator species – addresses regional population changes, krill dependence, and emerging threats (including fisheries interactions and disease). The timing of the fellowship, amid a review of the CEMP and development of a new krill-management approach, provided an especially timely platform to propose updated monitoring methodologies and to engage CCAMLR delegations with evidence relevant to ecosystem monitoring.
During the fellowship Noémie prepared and submitted a background paper for SC-CAMLR, presented the work at the 43rd CCAMLR Annual Meeting in Hobart (October 2024), and participated in the WG-EMM meeting in Geilo (July 2025), where she contributed to discussions on updating CEMP monitoring and krill-management approaches.
Read Noémie Friscourt’s full fellowship report for details on her activities, outcomes, capacity building, and future plans.