Gay Crowley is an ecologist with over 30 years’ experience in research and extension aimed at improving environmental management. Her research interests span conservation ecology; biogeography; fire and biodiversity management; and Natural Resource Management (NRM) planning. Gay has long supported the development and delivery of regional NRM programs – she has just completed a term as a foundational board member of the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board in South Australia, and has previously worked on NRM plans and programs in both Queensland and the Northern Territory. Gay has worked with First Nations Peoples across northern Australia to integrate western science and Indigenous Knowledge into fire and biodiversity monitoring for The Nature Conservancy and has also worked with Meat and Livestock Australia and the Tropical Savannas CRC to support sustainable fire, biodiversity and grazing management across northern Australia. Gay also spent many years living and working with pastoralists on Cape York Peninsula to identify and implement fire management to reverse the decline of high conservation value grassy woodlands.