Welcome to another episode of SIMS' podcast 'Conversation Currents'. Every episode will feature a guest speaker in the marine science space and will focus on science to revive our oceans. This will include researchers, academics, philanthropists, technical staff and many more!

This episode is released during NAIDOC week, and this week's guest, Dr. Mitchell Gibbs from The University of Sydney focusses much of his research on incorporating Indigenous knowledge in Western science.In this episode Mitch chats about the importance of acknowledgement in the communication of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to academia, his perspective on climate action, and his upcoming Fullbright scholarship where he is heading to North America to learn from existing work in ethically incorporating TEK into Western science.

Music: 'Cirrus' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au