Dr Graziela Miot da Silva 

Growing up on an island in southern Brazil ignited Dr Graziela Miot da Silva’s passion for the sea and the coast. She is an oceanographer with expertise in coastal geomorphology and research interests on surfzone dynamics and sediment transport, beach morphodynamics and climate change impacts on coastal environments. She joined Flinders University in 2013 after eight years and two academic positions in the USA. At Flinders Graziela teaches and coordinates topics in Natural Sciences (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Coastal Processes and Geology of Australia) and co-directs the Beach and Dune Systems Laboratory. She is currently working with colleagues from Australia, Brazil and Japan on an ARC-funded research project, looking at the evolution, geomorphology, age structure and dynamics of the Younghusband Peninsula Holocene coastal barrier dunefield, and she is also working on collaborative projects with SA industry, academics and local councils related to restoration of marine ecosystems and management of coastal erosion. Graziela also led the establishment of a network of wave buoys in Gulf Saint Vincent which is providing freely available, real-time wave data for research, industry and the community more broadly.

Malcolm Leask

Malcolm (Mal) Leask was born into a wine-growing and agricultural family, but for most of his life so far, has trod a different path. After a career in horticulture, beverages and hospitality, Mal joined his brother Richard in founding Hither & Yon in 2011, being responsible for strategy, product and marketing, people and environment. Mal is very happy to be at home in McLaren Vale with his wife Kelly and two young boys, Abel and Eli, and terrier Tam.

Hither & Yon has been recognised as South Australia's first carbon neutral certified wine brand, and just the third in the country.