AWARDS
Early Career Scientist Award, International Coral Reef Society
Early Career Award, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship
NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr Emily Darling is a conservation scientist and Director of Coral Reef Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), where she leads WCS's global coral reef conservation and science programs connecting conservation impact across 15 countries in the Western Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Melanesia and the Caribbean. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto.
Emily’s research investigates how tropical coral reefs are changing in the face of our climate crisis and the role of climate resilient coral reefs (or ‘climate refugia’) as a critical blueprint for global conservation. Trained as a field biologist, she is a certified scientific diver and has published 50+ publications in leading scientific journals and received international awards for her research and science communication.
Inspired by data-driven collaboration, Emily is a co-founder and product manager for the global coral reef data platform MERMAID and an advisor to the United Nations Environment Program and Global Fund for Coral Reefs, the Coral Triangle Conservation Fund, and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network’s inaugural Data Task Force.
In addition to being a leading coral reef scientist, she is also a passionate communicator and has been a featured speaker at the Jackson Wild Film Festival and the Story Collider podcast, and is a Lewis Pugh Foundation Coral Champion.
