Our Research Team
Waqar Ahmad
Land use/cover mapping using remote sensing/GIS
Radar remote sensing for environmental monitoring
Remote sensing applications in tropical environment management
Remote sensing applications in barrier reef mapping and monitoring
Integration of remote sensing/ Geographic Information
Habitat mapping using spatial technologies
Chris Austin
Biodiversity and evolution of aquatic organisms
Aquaculture
Crustaceans
Guy Boggs
Post-mining landform design and rehabilitation
Water quality and quantity modelling
Modelling catchment erosion and deposition distribution patterns
Application of geographic information to assessing landscape change
Object based image classification
Bruce Campbell
People-resource interactions in upland catchments
Natural resource based enterprises
Simulation modelling of people-resource systems
Keith Christian
Physiology and ecology in general, with emphasis on the physiological and behavioural adaptations of animals in response to the physical environment.
Comparative physiology
Biological control
Physiological ecology
Thermoregulatory biology, animal energetics, and biophysical ecology.
Donna Craig
Sustainable Development Strategies in Arid Lands
Environmental Law
International Environmental Law
Indigenous Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights
Indigenous management of lands and natural resources
Ethical Protocols for Cross-Cultural Research
Nicole Cranston
Riparian zone ecology and management
Riparian biodiversity
Community interaction
Rangeland management
Ian Dixon
River health assessment
Riparian zone ecology and management
Michael Douglas
Effects of catchment management practices (eg fire, weeds, grazing, flow alteration) on ecology tropical rivers, streams, wetlands and riparian zones.
Trophic interactions in aquatic ecosystems
Weed ecology and management in tropical savannas
Stephen Garnett
Facilitation of Indigenous wildlife-based businesses
Natural resource management, including biodiversity conservation, and the opportunities this provides for livelihoods and enterprise development, and
Threatened species ecology, management and economics.
Karen Gibb
Molecular ecology including plant-microbe interactions and soil condition assessment using soil biota.
molecular genetics of bacteria-like organisms associated with plant diseases.
Antibody mediated resistance and phytoplasma membrane proteins.
Novel serology and DNA diagnostics.
Soil condition assessment in the wet-dry tropics and their role in landscape function.
Lindsay Hutley
Plant physiological ecology
Adaptations of savanna vegetation to the physical environment
Carbon and water cycling in tropical and temperate Eucalypt dominated ecosystems,
Impacts of fire, grazing and weed invasion.
Feedback between carbon dynamics, fire and climate change.
Gillian McCloskey
Fluvial and coastal geomorphology
Erosion and degradation in riparian areas
Niels Munksgaard
Isotope studies of water/rock interactions (stable O-isotopes)
Absolute age dating of plutonic and volcanic rock suites
Investigating the chemistry of metals and associated elements in the marine and terrestrial environment of Northern Australia
Development and application of advanced analytical techniques in the area of environmental chemistry, e.g. Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS), micro-beam techniques
David Parry
Metals and nutrients in aquatic environments.
Application of natural and constructed wetlands for remediation of contaminated waters from mine sites and industrial sites.
mechanisms involved in the removal of metals and the optimisation of the systems through the use of natural
atmospheric chemistry, particularly focusing on the impacts of biomass burning in tropical Australia
Diane Pearson
Environmental Information Systems and spatial analysis
Landscape ecology - studying habitat loss due to human activity
Measuring and quantifying landscape structure and heterogeneity
Monitoring land use/ land cover change using GIS and Remote Sensing
Habitat modelling and biodiversity assessment
Uncertainty issues in GIS databases
Effect of scale on landscape analysis
Integrating socio-economic data with environmental data for resource management
Naomi Rea
Plant ecology and macrophyte population dynamics
Environmental water requirements of rivers and wetlands
River and wetland hydrology, biology and flow-nutrient models.
Species invasion and loss - weed ecology
Water Resource Management, Policy and Property Rights
Natural Resource Management (NRM) process, structure and law
Environmental Governance and Customary Law Governance
Indigenous engagement in NRM and recognition of cultural values of water, land and sea
Eric Valentine
Coastal and fluvial hydrodynamics
Sediment transport and dispersion
River stability and regime
Structures in the water environment
Hydraulics of water and sewage treatment plants
Bob Wasson
Catchment Management
Transport of Sediment, nutrients and carbon through river catchments in Australia, S.E Asia and S. Asia.
Merrilyn Wasson
Designing catchment scale water use institutions that can adapt to changing water availability under conditions of climate change.
Penny Wurm
Floodplain ecology and management
Weed ecology management