Mina Hatayama

Mina is a PhD candidate and research associate in the fish and fisheries lab at James Cook University in Australia. Her research interests include understanding human-wildlife conflicts, modelling impacts of climate change on marine species, and incorporating community based natural resource management into marine sciences. Mina’s PhD thesis takes a multidisciplinary approach to understand socio-ecological systems contributing to shark depredation.

Mina is Japanese American, but spent most of her upbringing in the United States. Lacking a strong Asian community in the U.S, she is passionate now about cultivating a sense of community for researchers in Asia.