Dr Zoe Doubleday is an ARC Future Fellow working on a unique method to trace the origins of seafood, protecting Australia’s high value seafood industry and providing confidence for consumers.
Based at the University of South Australia’s Future Industries Institute, Dr Doubleday measures the chemical composition of tiny bones from the ears of fish and cephalopods (octopus, squid) and from seashells. The precise levels of certain chemicals are controlled by the ocean in which the bone or shell was formed, and so can reveal to us where in the world the animal was living.
