{"id":22673,"date":"2023-06-08T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/?p=22673"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:42:29","slug":"careers-corner-how-do-you-become-a-leading-marine-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/careers-corner-how-do-you-become-a-leading-marine-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers Corner: How do you become a leading Marine Scientist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-sm-font-size\"><strong>Written by Alumni &amp; Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-df-font-size\">What does it take to become a leading Australian Marine Scientist? \ud83d\udc0b\ud83d\udd2c<br><br>With more than 20 years of experience, leading Australian marine scientist and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/curtinuniversity\/\">Curtin University<\/a> PhD graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAATv3xUB7vrT0DD8iV-KSdpUGznVghI_OlI\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rebecca-wellard\/\">Dr. Rebecca Wellard<\/a> has been the brains behind many large-scale marine projects in WA and worldwide, including Project Orca.<br><br>Right now, Rebecca is on a mission to create greater and better-improved marine protected areas around Australia, with the goal of protecting 30% of Australia\u2019s land and seas by 2030.<br><br>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=worldoceansday&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7072426695269486593\">hashtag#WorldOceansDay<\/a>, Curtin Marine Science student Jaiyden Brown interviewed Rebecca to learn more about what it takes to be a leader in your field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>watch video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/curtin-university-alumni_careers-corner-how-do-you-become-a-leading-activity-7072426695269486593-WIkr?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-sm-font-size\"><strong>Written by Alumni &amp; Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading Australian marine scientist Dr. Rebecca Wellard, a Curtin University PhD graduate, shares her insights on protecting our oceans. In an interview with Curtin Marine Science student Jaiyden Brown, Rebecca discusses her work on projects like Project Orca and her goal to protect 30% of Australia\u2019s land and seas by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":22675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","wds_primary_category":710,"footnotes":""},"categories":[710],"tags":[363,709],"class_list":["post-22673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-after-curtin","tag-career-advice","tag-linkedin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24909,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22673\/revisions\/24909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}