Professor Kerrylee Rogers is a coastal scientist in the School of Science at the University of Wollongong. Experience as an environmental scientist with the NSW Government has developed her skills in applied research and created a strong foundation for ongoing collaboration with industry. Her research focuses on understanding the response of coastal ecosystems and landscapes to climate change and human impacts, and recently has focussed on operationalising blue carbon as a mechanism for mitigating climate change and improving the supply of ecosystem services that benefit humans. This work has been recognised with an Academy of Science Frederick White Medal and Australian Museum Eureka Prize for environmental research highlighting the role of sea level in coastal carbon storage. Kerrylee Rogers is now Director of the Environmental Futures Research Centre.