Current Research Projects
| Research Topic | Contact |
|---|---|
| Adaptive environmental management, including aspects of social learning, participatory natural resource management, evaluation and institutional processes and governance. Water management is a current focus, but also native vegetation and soils. | Catherine Allan |
| Dr Rosemary Black has research interests in human dimensions of natural resource management, sustainable tourism, environmental communication, tour guiding, sustainability, outdoor and environmental education and gender issues in natural resource management. | Rosemary Black |
| Spatial Science, particularly remote sensing and GIS for understanding and improving environmental and agricultural systems. | Remy Dehaan |
| Climatology, vegetation remote sensing image analysis, applications of GIS techniques and geocomputation, climate variability and landscape phenology, habitat occupancy modelling | Andrew Hall |
| Using GIS, spatial modelling and data visualization to unveil patterns in environmental and health data. Exploring the potential of remote and proximal sensing data to increase accuracy in spatial modelling. | Ana Horta |
| Ecology of fish and rivers: contemporary and historical | Paul Humphries |
| Ecosystem services (particularly contribution of native ecosystems/organisms to service provision), fauna conservation in human-dominated landscapes (particularly urban and agricultural landscapes and studies conducted from interdisciplinary perspectives) | Gary Luck |
| Fire ecology; ecology of semi-arid ecosystems; landscape ecology; effects of predators on ecosystems; herpetology; impacts of climatic extremes on communities; ecological resistance and resilience | Dale Nimmo |
| Cultural Heritage Management / Historic Preservation in Australia and the Pacific Heritage Futures: Documenting and Preserving emergent Technologies | Dirk HR Spennemann |
| Vegetation ecology/ Plant dispersal in road corridors/ Restoration of woodlands/ Environmental history (e.g. History of Travelling Stock Reserves or previous vegetation patterns) / Landscape connectivity analysis | Peter Spooner |
| Social science: Community/environment interactions in Australia and less developed countries; sustainable development; ecotourism, community based tourism and community development; communities and landscape change; climate change perceptions and responses. | Rik Thwaites |
| River and floodplain ecology, specifically ecosystem and species responses to flow and flooding regimes | Robyn Watts |
| Spatial analysis and modelling applied to species distribution, ecological modelling, human-environment interactions including links between human health and environmental health, and urban modelling including housing sustainability. Uncertainty in spatial modelling and decision making. | Rachel Whitsed |