Dr Ella Vallelonga is a Research Fellow in the School of Society and Culture at Adelaide University. Her research examines the multispecies relationalities, ecological emotions and phenomenological ruptures of marine conservation, with attention to posthuman feminisms. Operating in the spaces of environmental anthropology, her work navigates the biopolitics of marine intervention, and considers the connective embodiments of ecological restorations. She has investigated how ecological grief motivates marine and coastal stewardship along the Great Barrier Reef, and how restoration divers and scientists navigate the emotional terrain of coral restoration in climate crises. She is most concerned with examining how embodied immersions in at risk environments are generative of co-species care and pro-environmental behaviours. She is a co-investigator on the project 'Understanding the History, Motivations, and Future-Oriented Pathways of the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Sector.'
 
She has supported major MRFF projects in Public Health addressing vaping health-risk behaviours and youth vaping experiences.