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Name Interests Dr Erica Marshall Environmental sciences, climate change impacts and adaptation, Dr Rebecca Morris Science & technology, environmental sciences, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology, climate change impacts and adaptation, environmental sciences, environmental management, life below water Cayn Borthwick Composition, performance, sound, environmental data, field recording, contemporary performance Dr Benjamin Wagner landscape ecology, wildlife conservation, greater glider, habitat distribution modelling, forest ecology, remote sensing, machine learning, statistical modelling, drones A/Professor Ken Winkel Toxinology, Immunology, Public health, Medical History, Tropical Medicine, Medical Education, Medical Humanities, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine A/Professor Anthony Boxshall Integrating environmental research into practice, Environmental regulation, Coastal and marine climate adaptation, Environmental impacts, Plastics and other pollutants, Conservation science - Marine Protected Areas, Citizen science, Marine Ecology, Science Communication A/Professor Neil Young Parasitology, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Molecular evolution, Transcriptomics, science & technology, biological sciences, genetics, life sciences & biomedicine Debela Abdeta Pharmacology Sarah Hunter Design, architecture Professor Margaret Mayfield Ecology, diversity, plants, pollination, coexistence, restoration, invasive species, conservation A/Professor Luke Kelly Biodiversity, fire ecology, animal conservation, plant evolution, global change, environmental sciences, conservation decision making, bushfires, species distribution models Dr Leonardo Nogueira Moraes Tourism Geographies, Islands and Coastal Areas, Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, Environmental Planning, Resilience, Vulnerability and Sustainability, Self-Organisation, Global-Local Dynamics Dr Anson Koehler Phylogenetics, Ecology, Evolution, Phylogeography, Parasites, Waterborne pathogens, Zoonotic helmiths, Cryptosporidium, Haycocknema Dr Jo Birch biological sciences, science & technology, evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology Dr Ka Yi Ling Developmental and stem cell biology Dr Yung En Chee Science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology, ecology, climate change impacts and adaptation, environmental management, biodiversity & conservation Professor Graeme Pearman Earth sciences, atmospheric sciences, climate action, biological sciences, historical studies, heritage and archaeology, physical geography and environmental geoscience, life on land, urban and regional planning Dr Natalie Briscoe biological sciences, climate change impacts and adaptation, environmental sciences & ecology, biodiversity conservation Professor David Karoly science & technology, physical sciences, earth sciences, meteorology & atmospheric sciences, oceanography, climate change science Dr Sareh Moosavi Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Boundary Spanning, Metabolic Thinking, Design Processes, Climate Positive Landscapes, Systems thinking, Water Sensitive Cities, Riverfront Rehabilitation, Coastal Landscapes Dr Liz Dean Social theory, Sociology of Bodies, Social Inequalities and Post Colonial Theory, Feminism, Corporeal Ethics, Decoloniality, Climate Repair, Affective Labour, Ethics of Listening Dr Nicholas Doidge Microbiology, Conservation Medicine, Wildlife Diseases, Entomology, Diagnostics Siri Hayes Photography, sculpture Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick Measurement, Technology, Psychology, Adolescent, Wellbeing Science, Mental Health, Biofeedback, Success, Nature Tess Barling Fine Arts, Music Ella Plumanns Pouton Plant ecology, Fire ecology, Seed ecology, Biodiversity conservation Dr Patricia Menendez Galvan Statistics, Mathematics, Time Series, Smoothing methods, Data Science, Statistical modelling, Applied statistics, Climate research and environmental statistics, Dependent data Professor Diane Scaraboto Platform Markets, Consumer Culture, Sustainable Consumption, Co-creation, Collaborative consumption, Netnography, Extended materiality, Cultural Appropriation, commerce, management, tourism and services Dr Tina Parkhurst environmental sciences, science & technology, ecology, biological sciences, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology Professor Kirstin Parris Urban systems, Bioacoustics and animal communication,Amphibians, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences, environmental sciences & ecology Professor Nick Williams Urban Ecology, Green Roofs, Urban Biodiversity, Green Infrastructure, Native Grasslands, Restoration Ecology, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology Dr Judy Kroo Japan, Policy, Ecological Knowledges, Recovery, Post-Disaster Communities, Future-Imagining, Linguistics, Anthropology, Korea Shankar Adhikari Forest Ecosystem Services, Climate Change Adaptation, Forest Management, Silviculture Alexander Peska marine and coastal science, wildlife ecology, remote sensing Dr Sarah McColl-Gausden environmental sciences, climate change impacts and adaptation, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, ecological applications, environmental sciences & ecology, agricultural, veterinary and food sciences A/Professor Lael Weis constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law, political philosophy, legal theory, law and philosophy, judicial reasoning, directive principles, constitutional property, social rights and duties A/Professor Amy Hahs Urban Planning, landscape Architecture, environmental sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, environmental sciences & ecology, ecology, biological sciences, climate change impacts and adaptation Zac Walker Alpine ecology Dr Andy Bennett Ecology, wildlife disease Dr Justin See Climate change adaptation, Dr Rebecca Runting Environmental sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, life on land, environmental sciences & ecology, biodiversity conservation Ainslie Macdonald Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, animal production, climate action, environmental sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, life on land, agriculture, dairy & animal science, pharmacokinetics Dr Melissa Pineda Pinto Justice, urban nature, City planning & Design, Critical geography, Social-ecological systems, sustainable cities and communities, environmental sciences & ecology Dr Laura Bedford Criminology, political ecology; green criminology; ecological justice, State-corporate crime; crimes of the powerful, Environmental racism and environmental justice, Activism, resistance and defense, Criminal justice policy, Crime prevention Dr Irshad Bibi Environmental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Hydrogeochemistry, Earth Sciences, Mineral weathering, Trace element geochemistry, Soil Science and soil-plant relationship, Geological CO2 sequestration, Water treatment Anna Beasley Landscape architecture Professor Alice Hughes Biological sciences, environmental sciences, life on land, ecology, environmental management, climate change impacts and adaptation, ecological applications, life below water, evolutionary biology A/Professor Luba Volkova Forest biomass, net primary productivity, wildfire, planned burning emission, inventory, emission factors, policy, reporting, FREL Hoade Peng Quantitative and applied ecology, environment Lara Skerratt Anthropology, ocean governance James Nolan Zoology, biological and biomolecular science Tung Hsien Chi AI, sustainable supply chain and ecosystem management Ellen Hodgson Film, documentary, Indigenous studies Hossain Mohammad Reza Climate change law and litigation, planning and developing sustainable cities, third world approaches to international law, health law and patient protection Dr Sarah Webber Human-computer interaction, animal-computer interaction, digital nature, interaction design, social computing, technology for social connectedness, technology for wellbeing, user-centred design, design thinking Elliot Gould Quantitative and applied ecology Andrew Irvin Nissology, Creative Practice, Climate Change, Mobility, Sustainability, Science Fiction, Media Studies, Media Production, Conservation Dr Vera Korasidis Sedimentology, Geology, Palynology, Climate change, Palaeontology, Palaeoclimate, Stratigraphy, PETM, Cretaceous Lakshmi Bala Bioengineering Dr Vili Iese Science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, nutrition, environmental sciences & ecology, agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, health sciences, public health Tamar Orly Plant pathology, fungi Dr Bridget Keane Pedagogy, landscape Architecture, Built Environment and Design, Systems Thinking, Climate Education, Design Practice, Design Studio, built environment and design, landscape architecture A/Professor Martin Tomko Spatial communication, retail analytics, cyber-physical-social systems, spatial recommender systems, annotation, search and retrieval, Research infrastructure in the spatial domain Dr Jodie Valpied Environmental psychology, biodiversity & ecology, personality psychology, healthy waterways & catchments, individual differences within species, openness to experience, introversion, platypus conservation, connectedness to nature Dr Janelle Evans Education & educational research, history, heritage and archaeology, social sciences Dr Jeff Noro Biodiversity, climate resilience, and science policy Putri Shafira Agriculture Hongyi Liu Urban horticulture Professor Trent Penman Science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, climate change impacts and adaptation, environmental sciences & ecology, ecological applications, ecology, forestry Dr Joshua Thia Biological sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, genetics, ecology, human genome, entomology, environmental sciences & ecology Dr Zahra F Islam Microbiology, Microbial ecology, Microbial physiology, Bacteria, Plant-bacteria interactions, Soil microbiology, Extremophiles, Bacterial metabolism, Ecology Luping Zhang Quantitative and applied ecology Dr Belinda Van Heerwaarden Phenotypic plasticity, fertility thermal limits, Climate change, Endosymbionts, biological sciences, science & technology, life sciences & biomedicine, genetics, environmental sciences & ecology Dr Brendan Lanham Ecology, biological sciences, science & technology, environmental sciences, environmental management, marine & freshwater biology Professor Chibuike Udenigwe Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, food sciences, nutrition, biological sciences, biomedical and clinical sciences, chemical sciences, digestive diseases, zero hunger, complementary and integrative health Jin Yan Biochemistry, plant and microbial science Shona Elliot-Kerr Quantitative ecology
About the cluster
The Nature-led resilience and nature based climate solutions cluster brings together researchers from fields as diverse as ecology, architecture, urban development and renewal, ocean researchers, fire ecologists, economists, business academics community engagement experts, and planners and many more to explore how nature positive solutions can be understood, enhanced and advocated for in the transitional economy.
The areas of focus of the cluster include but are not limited to:
- Nature-led climate solutions, natural infrastructure
- Resilience of Country, lands and waters
- Economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits of natural infrastructure
- Climate-nature politics and communications
- Community-nature resilience
Research Projects
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Habitat design to reduce predation and improve shellfish reef restoration
Investigating innovative design and construction approaches using clay 3D printing to create predation refugia for shellfish reef restoration.
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Australian Nature-based Solutions for disaster resilience: addressing barriers to scaling
Synthesising evidence on the effectiveness of nature-based solutions for fire, flood, drought and coastal protection across Australia's Natural Resource Management sector.