-
Courses
Courses
-
Future Students
Courses
-
Current Students
You and Your CourseOpportunities
-
Research and Teaching
Our ResearchResearch Degrees
-
Partners and Community
Partner with JCU
- About JCU
Partner with JCU- Advanced Analytical Centre
- Accommodation
- Alumni
- ATSIP
- Association of Australian University Secretaries
- Australian Quantum & Classical Transport Physics Group
- Careers and Employability
- CMT
- College of Healthcare Sciences
- College of Medicine and Dentistry
- Division of Tropical Environments and Societies
- Estate
- Graduation
- IERC
- International Students
- JCU Eduquarium
- JCU Halls of Residence
- Language and Culture Research Centre
- Library
- Marine Geophysics Laboratory
- Open Day
- Parents and Partners
- Pathways to University
- Planning and Performance
- Policy
- Professional Experience Placement
- Rapid Assessment Unit
- JCU Connect
- Scholarships @ JCU
- Staff
- Tropical Sustainable Design Case Studies
- VAVS Home
- Media & Comms
- Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine
- About JCU

Publications Student profiles Georgia Langdon
Georgia Langdon
Georgia Langdon
Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology
A few months after finishing her final exams, Georgia Langdon found herself in the Cook Islands, working in a role with the Ministry of Marine Resources.
“It was called a pearl biologist and I was based in an outer island of the Cooks in an atoll called Manihiki.”
Georgia says she fell in love with aquaculture because of its application to communities and societies around the world and the direct impact of aquaculture on people’s lives is something she has seen firsthand in her role.
“I could see aquaculture had the ability to have an impact on people’s lives for livelihood and income and food security.”
Georgia spent a year and a half in the role on Manihiki before moving to the department’s offshore fisheries division as a senior fisheries officer and data manager.
“I’m in charge of the monitoring of catch and effort all our commercial fishing vessels; and reporting on that.”
The role has come with many travel opportunities which has allowed Georgia to meet and collaborate with regional experts.
“Pacific fisheries is like one giant family, everyone knows each other, even though you live on one side of the pacific to the other but you get to know people who have been in this game for 20 years or more. There’s just some incredible people that work in the region who can teach you great things and I really enjoy that part.”
She has also found the local people to be engaged in the work and projects she is involved with.
“Our community here in the Cook Islands are very passionate about their marine resources. The ocean is everything to these people and they’re very much involved in the developments of the offshore fishery which is really, really great.”
JCU’s tropical focus is something Georgia says has helped her in her roles with the Ministry of Marine Resources.
“We have similar issues over here in terms of the things that coral reefs might suffer. We’ve got cyclones, we have bleaching, we have crown of thorns, all of those things that I learned about at university are here, so it was all familiar already which was great.”
During her studies, Georgia says she was amazed that the people she was quoting in her assignments were the people teaching her at JCU.
“I’m quoting the experts in something or other and that’s the guy who’s standing in front of me, telling me about it. There are world expert people at JCU, why would you learn from anyone else when you can learn from them?”
- James Cook University
- Bachelor of Advanced Science
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
- Bachelor of Business
- Bachelor of Business / Laws
- Bachelor of Business & Environmental Science
- Bachelor of Dental Surgery
- Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
- Bachelor of Primary Education
- Bachelor of Secondary Education
- Bachelor of Environmental Practice
- Bachelor of Geology
- Bachelor of Information Technology
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Nursing Science (External)
- Bachelor of Midwifery
- Bachelor of Pharmacy
- Bachelor of Physiotherapy
- Bachelor of Planning
- Bachelor of Psychological Science
- Bachelor of Science
- Bachelor of Social Work
- Bachelor of Speech Pathology
- Bachelor of Sport & Exercise Science
- Bachelor of Veterinary Science
- Bachelor of Clinical Sciences (Honours)
- Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)
- Bachelor of Engineering / Science (Honours) MBA in Tourism
- Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- Master of Data Science
- Bachelor of Sports Psychology
- Bachelor of Marine Science
- Bachelor of Medicine / Surgery
- Bachelor of Nursing Science [Pre-Registration]
- Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science (Honours)
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours)
- Bachelor of Psychology
- Master of Conflict Management & Resolution
- Graduate Certificate of Conflict Management & Resolution
- Master of Global Development
- Master of International Tourism & Hospitality Management
- Bachelor of Technology and Innovation
- Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Laws
- Diploma of Higher Education
- Diploma of Higher Education (Business)
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Business Studies
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Engineering and Applied Science
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in General Studies
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Health
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Information Technology
- Diploma of Higher Education Majoring in Science
- Diploma of Higher Education, Majoring in Society and Culture