Melissa Abdallah

🐟 From improved breeds to new ways of preparing tilapia, our 2025 #NextGenAg4D Awardee @Mel_Abdallah found plenty of inspiration at the World Tilapia Conference held in Bangkok. She is developing a sustainable tilapia cage farming model in PNG, supported by @ACIARAustralia.

@Academic_Gian @CurtinUni Congrats Gian!! 🎉👏🏼

The Plantago Gods have answered my prayers! I'm a postdoc at @CurtinUni ! I will use my skills in plant-soil relationships and killing plants to improve plant establishment for restoration purposes in codesign with First Nation People! (I am still a fundamental ecologist at <3)

@Academic_Gian Congrats Gian!! ❤️

Just submitted my PhD thesis 🥹

Marianne Feoli and @Mel_Abdallah finished the Rice-Shrimp Project component of their internship. A big thanks to the team at RIA2 and our collaborating farmers in Tan Bang Commune for hosting and building the capacity of our @UNSW interns.😀@UNSWScience @unswbees @UnswWater

My @UNSWScience interns participated in our site visit at Tan Bang Commune. @Mel_Abdallah & Marianne Feoli learned about trust & relationship building for successful multi stakeholder collaboration. They also met our women lead farmers, trained by the project team @UnswWater

A great day spent with our collaborating farmers, government staff and UNSW interns at Tan Bang Commune in the Mekong Delta. Our last trial produced a good crop of shrimp. So happy to see the farmers again😃 @UNSWScience @unswbees @unswcmsi @UnswWater @Mel_Abdallah

So keen!

Wild dogs are dingoes! A new DNA test developed by @dr_cairns busts the wild dog myth and shows that most wild dogs are dingoes. In a clip from Australia's Wild Odyssey I discuss the wild dog myth while collecting samples from a dingo-tree for DNA testing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our UNSW interns participated in the Seafood Provenance Project workshop at @ANSTO to build skills in stakeholder engagement. The project involves partnerships with industry & government.@UNSWScience @unswbees @CES_UNSW @DrJasminMartino @DebashishMazu13 @JesSammut @Mel_Abdallah

@ferretto89 @unswbees @BiolSci_UWA @operationposid1 @adriatix @AlistairPoore @callaghanct @GaryAKendrick @SeagrassLiz @madlangley Amazing! 🎉

And with this paper I can announce that all my #PhD research is now published! Extremely happy and grateful for the brilliant and supportive scientists that contributed to this achievement🌱 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #posidonia #restoration @unswbees @BiolSci_UWA @operationposid1

Now that I’ve started my honours year, it’s nice looking back at volunteer experience that helped and inspired me to get where I am now. Sharing all my science and travel videos on TikTok 🌱 #ecology #science #conservation #animals vt.tiktok.com/ZS8atw2SK/

We cannot protect what we don’t know exists, and vouchers we collect not only serve as research material for scientists like myself, but also for scientists in the future. Collections act like a time capsule, allowing us to understand what is living here at this moment in time.

Such a good trip! 🌿

Just a couple of reasons why Port Macquarie is amazing @jessnguyens1 #travel #nature #ecology #animals #australia #marinelife #beaches #rainforest #outdoors #environment

@maxmallencooper Love this!

Beautiful time to be sampling the Aus Alps 😍

Had the best time on the ANZIC masterclass. Big thank you to Simon George and all the tutors that taught me so much! #IODP #marinegeology

@DJ_Eldridge @WestobyMark @Prof_Braj_Singh Congrats David!!

special thanks to @WestobyMark @Prof_Braj_Singh for their support and encouragement and all those wonderful #dryland #rangeland collaborators with whom I have worked over the years

@ferretto89 @BiolSci_UWA @uwaoceans @GaryAKendrick So exciting. Congrats 👏🏼

I just started a postdoc at @BiolSci_UWA @uwaoceans with @GaryAKendrick and I’m so excited to be looking at solutions to scale up #seagrass #restoration 🌱 Thrilled to finally visit the seagrasses of Australian west coast and meet the world’s largest plant 🥰🤩 #posidonia

@arachno_joe 😍😍

Good morning! 🥰 Here is a lovely jumping spider called Siler semiglaucus that I found in Malaysia a few years ago

It’s that time of year again! Tonnes of fun searching for these spiders.