Kate Hodges is an aquatic ecologist in the Water Planning Ecology team in the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science, and a Professional Associate at the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra. Kate was awarded a PhD in Molecular Ecology and Evolution from the University of Adelaide for her work on the recent evolutionary history of freshwater turtles in eastern Australia. Kate has experience in environmental watering policy, and her current research focuses on freshwater fish in inland arid rivers.