Sheriden Morris Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Australasia 2023

Sheriden Morris

Sheriden Morris has always strongly believed in intelligent, sustainable development using the region’s tropical expertise – the knowledge of living, building and working most effectively in the tropics. Since 2006, she has been the Managing Director of the Cairns-based not-for-profit company, Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC). Under her leadership, the RRRC has successfully attracted more than $400 million in grants and investment to support environmental research and development projects in northern Australia. Sheriden is also Chair of the CRC for Developing Northern Australia and Deputy Chair of Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef. An extensive contributor to land and sea management policy over many decades, she has also spearheaded the development and implementation of an innovative aid development program on Australia’s northern borderlands with Papua New Guinea. In 2023, the impact of her work was recognised by the receipt of national Banksia Awards in two categories (Biodiversity, and Agriculture & Regional Development). Sheriden and her husband live on the family farm at Babinda, just south of Cairns.