Associate Professor Kylie Scales is a quantitative marine ecologist whose research seeks to understand and predict ecological responses to physical variability and change in the oceans. She has research interests in fisheries sustainability, marine climate change, dynamic ocean management, ecological forecasting, and the spatial and movement ecology of marine vertebrates such as seabirds, turtles, sharks and large teleost fish. Her interdisciplinary research pursues solutions for the management of marine resources and conservation of marine biodiversity.

A/Prof Scales takes a highly collaborative approach to research, and works in partnership with industry, government agencies, non-governmental organisations, universities and research institutions in Australia and internationally. A/Prof. Scales is a previous Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow (2021). She serves as a Senior Editor for the open-access journal Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. She served as a Contributing Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report. She was awarded an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship in 2019, commended as Best Early Career Researcher in Science, Health, Education and Engineering in 2018 and received the Vice-Chancellor and President's Award for Excellence in Research in 2017.