A to Z Listing by Expertise
Name, Position | Institution | additional areas of research |Archaeology
Athol, Professor of Prehistory | ANU, Archaeology & Natural History,
Canberra ACT 0200 | other: palaeoecology
Attenbrow, Val | Senior Research Scientist | Australian Museum,
Sydney | other: Aboriginal prehistory
Bowler, Jim (CI)
| University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences | other:
Geology, indigenous studies
David, Bruno (CI) | QEII Fellow | Monash University, School
of Geography & Envrionmental Science | other: Programme
for Australian Indigenous
Denham, Tim
|
Research Fellow | Monash University, School of Geography and Envrionmental
Science | other:
Doelman, Trudy | University of Sydney | other:
Dortch, Joe | University of WA, Archaeology | other: human-environment
interactions, taphonomy, human impacts on biodiversity
Field, Judith | University of Sydney | other:
President Australian Archaeological Association Inc
Lilley, Ian (CI) | Univesity of Queensland, Aborigianl & Torrens
Strait Islander Studies Unit, QLD | other:
Lydon, Jane, Research Fellow | Monash University, Centre for Australian
Indigenous Studies | other:
McNiven, Ian | Senior Lecturer | Monash University, School of
Geography & Environmental Science | other:
Murray, Tim | La Trobe University, Humanities & Social Sciences
| other: Historical and prehistoric archaeology
Spriggs, Matthew (CI) | Australian National University, School of
Archaeology & Anthropology, ACT | other:
Torrence, Robin (CI) | Principle Research Scientist | Australian
Museum (Anthroplogy), NSW | other:
Veth, Peter
| Director of Research | AIATSIS, ACT Australia |
other: Archaeology/landscape evolution
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Ancient DNA
Austin, Jeremy | The University of Adelaide, Australian Centre for Ancient
DNA | other: phylogeography, conservation genetics, phylogenetics
Cooper,
Alan (CI)
,
ARC Federation Fellow | The University of Adelaide, Australian Centre
for Ancient DNA | other: evolution, palaeoecology, biogeography,
palaeontology
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Climate
Frakes, Larry | Emeritus Professor | University of Adelaide, School
of Earth & Environmental Sciences | other: palaeoclimate,
geomorphology
Grice, Kliti, Director, Stable Isotope & Molecular (Bio)geochemistry Group
| ARC QEII Research Fellow | Curtin Univesrity of Technology,
Dept of Applied Chemistry | other: Climate, palaeoclimate,
geomorphology
Lynch,
Amanda | Monash Univesity, School of Geography & Environmental Sciences,
VIC | other: Climate, palaeoclimate, geomorphology
Pearce, Charles | University of Adelaide, School of Mathematical Science
| other:Climate change, oceanography, Polynesian origins, probabilistic
modelling
Poloczanska Elvira
| CSIRO ATmospheric & Marine Research, Tasmania | other: marine
climate impacts
Williams, Martin | Foundation Professor of Environmental Studies
| Univesity of Adelaide, Geographical & Environmental Studies |
other: Climate, palaeoclimate, geomorphology
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Conservation
Adams, Michael | NSW Environmental Trust Fund, Univesity of Wollongong)
| other: Conservation issues associate with Aboriginal
co-management of protected areas
Baxter, Peter | Univesity of Queensland, School of Integrative
Biology, Ecology Centre | other: Conservation biology
Bowman, David (CI)
,
Professor of Forest Ecology | University of Tasmania, School of Plant
Science | other: Conservation biology
Brook,
Barry (CI) | The University of Adelaide, Research Institute of Climate
Change & Sustainability | other: Conservation biology
Byrne, Margaret (CI)
,
Principal Research Scientist | Dept of Conservation and Land Management,
Perth | other: Population & conservation genetics of plants,
phylogenetics, phylogeography & evolutionary patterns in the Australian
flora
Driscoll, Don (CI), Lecturer in Biodiversity | Flinders University, School
of Biological Sciences, Adelaide | other: Conservation biology
Faith, Daniel
(CI)
,
Principal Research Scientist | The Australian Museum, Sydney |
other: Conservation biology
Farmar-Bowers, Quentin | La Trobe University, Centre for Sustainable
Regional Communities | other: sustainable development
Hoffman, Ary (CI) | La Trobe University, Victoria, Centre for Evnironmental
Stress & Adaptation Research | other: Conservation biology
Hopper, Steve | University of Western Australia | other:
Conservation biology
Johnson, Chris (CI) | James Cook University, School of Tropical
Biology | other: Conservation biology
Nias, Raymond, Director, WWF Australia, NSW | other: Conservation
science, pology and planning
Paton, David
, Senior Lecturer | University of Adelaide, School of Earth
& Environmental Sciences | other: Terrestrial ecology and
biodviersity
Possingham, Hugh, ARC Professorial Fellow, Director of The Ecology Centre
| University of Queensland, Dept of Zoology & Mathematics |
other: Conservation biology
Powell, Wayne | Area: Conservation biology
Smyth, Anita | CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Alice Springs | Area:
Terrestrial ecology, biodiversity conservation planning
Webb, Jonathan | University of Sydney | other:
Snake ecology and conservation
Wills, Karen | University of Tasmania, School of Plant Science |
other: Biodiversity and conservation
Williams, Nicola, Senior Policy Officer | NSW Dept Environment &
Climate Change, Biodiversity & Threatened Species Policy Section | other:
palaeoecology
Wilson, Kerry, Director of Conservation | The Nature Conservancy Australia
| other:
Wintle, Brendan | University of Melbourne | other: Forest
management/Spatial modelling
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Evolution
Byrne, Phil | Australian National University | other: Sexual selection
and evolutionary history of Australian frogs
de Bruyn, Mark, Marie Curie Incoming In'tl Felllow | Bangor University,
School of Biological Sciences, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK | other: freshwater
ecology
Farrington, Lachlan | University of Adelaide, School of Earth &
Environmental Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | other:
Georges, Arthur (CI) | Professor in Applied Ecology, | University
of Canberra, Applied Ecology Research Group, ACT | other: Reptitle
ecology and evolution
Hoskin, Conrad
| The Australian National Univesity | other: Evolutionary biology
Lockhart, Peter
(CI), Associate Professor | Massey University, Allan Wilson Centre,
New Zealand | other: Molecular Evolution, plants
Macenzie, Jason | University of California, Berkeley | other: Biogeography
and evolution of rainforest herpetofauna
Phillips, Ben
| University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences | other:
reptiles
Shine, Rick, Professor in Evolutionary Biology | Univesity of Sydney,
School of Biological Sciences | other: Retptile ecology and evolution
Stow, Adam | Macquarie University | other: Antimicrobial
defences and evolution of sociality
McKinnon, Gay | University of Tasmania | other: Molecular
evidence for reticulate evolution in eucalypts
Uller, Tobias
| University of Wollongong | other: Evolutionary Ecology
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Ecology
Bennett, Andrew, Reader in Sensory & Behavioural Ecology| University
of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, UK | other: Behavioural
evolution
Fluin, Jenny | University of Adelaide | other: Limpacs
salinity, climate and salinisation working group
Framenau, Volker | Western Australian Museum | other: The
systematics of the Australian wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae)
Grover, Samantha, Research Assoc| Charles Darwin University, School
of Environmental & Life Sciences | other: Terrestrial ecosystem
greenhouse gas dynamics, ecohydrology, soils
Keogh, Scott (CI) | Senior Lecturer | Australian National University,
School of Botany & Zoology, ACT | other: Reptile ecology
and evolution
Lavers,
Jennifer | CSIRO-University of Tasmania joint appoinment
| other: Demographics
McCullum,
Hamish | University of Tasmania | Area: Ecology of disease,
conservation biology
O'Reilly-Wapstra, Julianne | University of Tasmania | other:
Plant/animal interactions
Pavlova, Alexandra
| Monash University | other: phylogeography/landscape genetics
Petina Pert
| CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Tropical Landscapes Research Program
| other: GIS landscape ecology
Schlesinger, Christine
| Charles Darwin University, School of Environmental and Life Sciences
| other: Desert ecology
Wapstra, Erick | University of Tasmania, School of Zoology | other:
terrestrial and behavioural ecology, reptiles
Whelan, Rob (CI), Dean of Science | University of Wollongong, School of
Biological Sciences | other: Fire ecology, herbivory and
pollination ecology, conservation biology
Wormington, Kevin | Central Queensland University, Centre for Environmental
Managment | other: land management
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Geochronology/Geohistory
Cupper,
Matt
,
Research Fellow | University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences
| other: Quaternary geology, palaeoecology, archaeology
Gale, Stephen | Senior Lecturer | Univesity of Sydney, School
of Geosciences | other: Environmental change, the environmental
record of human impact
Li, Qianyu | Research Fellow | University of Adelaide, School
of Earth & Environmental Sciences | other: Cenozoic environmental
reconstruction
McGowran, Brian | Visiting Research Fellow | University of Adelaide,
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences | other: Cenozoic environmental
reconstruction
Miller,
Gifford, Fellow of INSTAAR, Professor of Geological Sciences | University
of Colorado, Boulder | other: Quaternary stratigraphy and paleoclimatology
Roberts, Richard | ARC Senior Research Fellow | Univesity of
Wollongong, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences | other:
Turney, Chris (CI) | The University of Exeter, School of Geography,
Archaeology & Earth Resources, UK | other:
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Geochemistry
Bestland, Erick | Lecturer | The Flinders University, School
of Chemistry, Physics & Earth Sciences, Adelaide | other:
Sedimentary Geochemistry & Pedology
Krull, Evelyn | Senior Research Scientist | CSIRO Land &
Water, Adelaide | other: Sedimentary organic geochemistry
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Invertebrate systematics
Austin,
Andrew (CI)
| The University of Adelaide, Australian Centre for Evolutionary
Biology and Biodiversity | other: phylogenetics/evolution
Harvey, Mark (CI) | other: phylogenetics/evolution
LaSalle, John, Head, Australian National Insect Collection | CSIRO
Entomology, ACT | other: biodviersity/evolution
Schwarz, Michael, A/Professor | Flinders University, School of Biological
Sciences | other: phylogenetics/evoluton
Yeates,
David (CI) | CSIRO Entomology, ACT | other: phylogenetics/evolution
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Marine
Andersen, Alan | CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Tropical Ecosystems Reseach
Centre | other:
Andrew Baird | James Cooke University | other: Biodviersity
of coral reefs
Bax, Nic | CSIRO Marine & Atmosphere | other: marine
ecosystem analysis, biodiversity & conservation
Bellwood, David (CI) | Professor, Director, Centre for Coral Reef Biodviersity
| James Cook University, Townsville | other: Marine
ecology and biodiversity
Bone, Yvonne | School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University
of Adelaide | other: Cool water carbonaters, marine
geology, coastal waters, bryozoans
Bustamante, Rodrigo | Northern Fisheries & Ecolsystems Research
Group, CSIRO Marine Research, QLD | other: Marine
ecology and biodiversity
Butler, Alan | Torres Strait Marine Resources, CSIRO Marine Research,
QLD | other: Marine eBenthic ecology
Connell, Sean (CI)
| ARC QEII Fellow | University of Adelaide, School of Earth &
Environmental Sciences | other: Marine ecology and biodiversity
Connolly,
Sean (CI)
| Associate Professor| James Cook University, School of Marine
& Tropical Biology | other: Theoretical and statistical
modelling, marine ecology, biodiversity, macroecology
Gillanders, Bronwyn | ARC QEII Research Fellow | University
of Adelaide, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences | other:
Marine ecology and biodiversity
Hassler, Christel | CSIRO Atmospheric & Marine Research |
other: chemical & biological oceanography
Hogg, Carolyn, Research Fellow | University of NSW, Evolution & Ecology
Research Centre | other: marine ecology, endocrinology
Hughes, Terry (CI)
| Federation Fellow | James Cook University, School of Marine
Biology & Aquaculture other: Marine ecology and biodiversity
Johnson, Craig | Chair, School of Zoology | University
of Tasmania | other: Marine benthic community ecology
Kerr, Alexander | James Cook University | other: Phylogenetic community
ecoloty of corals
Klaer, Neil | CSIRO
Division of Marine & Atmospheric Research, Multiple Use Management of the
EEZ Program | other: Marine ecology and biodiversity
McDonald, David | Leader, National Ecological Sustainable Development
Research Group, CSIRO Marine Research, TAS | other: Marine ecology
and biodiversity
Munday, Phil | James Cook University | other: Population,
community and behavioural ecology of coral reef fishes
Pratchett, Morgan | James Cook University | other: Recovery
and resilience of coral reef communities
Robers, Tracey | University of New South Wales, School of BEES | other:
Marine Ecology
Russell, Bayden, Research Associate | University of Adelaide, School of Earth
& Env. Sciences | other: Marine Ecology
Venables, Bill | CSIRO, Division of Mathematics & Information
Sciences and Environmental Monitoring & Management | other: Marine
ecology and biodiversity
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Molecular phylogeny
Baverstock, Peter (retiried) | Ex CI member | other: Molcular
phylogeny/evolution
Dowton, Mark, Senior Lecturer | Univeristy of Wollongong, School of Biological
Sciences | other: molecular evolution of parasitic invertebrates
Cooper, Steve | South Australian Museum, Evolutionary Biology Unit |
other: Molecular phylogeny/evolution
Crozier, Ross (CI), Professor of Evolutionary Genetics | James Cook
University, Townsville QLD | other: Molecular phylogeny/evolution
Donnellan, Steve (CI) | South Australian Museum, Evolutionary Biology
Unit, Adelaide | other: Molecular phylogeny/evolution
Dowton,
Mark, Lecturer, University of Wollongong, School of Biological Sciences
| other: Molecular phylogeny, molecular evolution of parasitic
invertebrates
Moritz, Craig (CI), Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology | Dept. of
Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, USA | other: Molecular phylogeny/evolution
Sunnucks, Paul (CI), Senior Lecturer | La Trobe Univeristy, School
of Molecular Sciences | other: Molecular phylogeny/evolution
Taylor, Andrea, Senior Research Fellow | Monash University, School
of Biolgocial Sciences | other: Molecular phylogeny/evolution
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NRM
Schmidt, Michael | Natural Resourde Sciences, Remote Sensing Centre, QLD
| other:
Stone, Peter | Tropical Landscapes Research Program Leader | CSIRO
Sustainable Ecosystems, QLD | other: Natural Resource
Management, agricultural systems
Warren, Emma | Biodiversity Consultant | Department
of Environment and Water Resources, Canberra | Area: Monitoring
biodiversity
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Palaeobotany
Hill, Robert (CI), Network Convener | Dean, Faculty of Sciences, The
University of Adelaide| other: Palaeontology/palaeoecology
Cantrill, David, Chief Botanist & Director | National Herbarium of
Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne | other areas:/palaeoecology/biogeography
Parr, Jeff, ARC Research Fellow | Southern Cross University, Centre
for Geoarchaeology & Palaeoenvironmental Research | other: carbon
sequestration
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Palaeoecology
Gell, Peter
Director, Centre for Environmental Management | University
of Ballarat, School of Science and Engineering | other:
Haberlah, David
,
PhD Candidate | University of Adelaide, School of Earth & Environmental
Sciences | other:
Hope, Geoffrey | Australian National University, Archaeology & Natural
History, Canberra | other:
Itzstein-Davey, Freea, Research Fellow | Trinity College, Ireland |
other: palaeoecology, specifically in south-western Australia
Louise Newman, Science Officer | PAGES International Project Office, Sulgeneckstrasse,
Bern Switzerland | other: Paleolimnology/ paleoclimatology
Mooney, Scott, Lecturer | University of NSW, School of Biolgocial,
Earth & Environmental Sciences | other: Palaeoecology/fire history
Murphy, Nic | University of Adelaide, School of Earth & Environmental
Sciences | other:
Prebble, Matiu
|
Australian National University | other: palynology, ancient
plant DNA
Taffs, Kathryn | Lecturer | Southern Cross University, School
of Environemtnal Science & Management NSW | other: Palaeolimnology,
Human impact upon the Australian Environment
Tibby, John
| University of Adelaide, Geographical & Environmental Studies
| other: Palaeolimnology
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Palaeontology
Haberle, Simon (CI)
| AR QEII Research Fellow | Australian National University, Research
School of Pacific & Asian Studies | other: Palaeontology,
palaeobotany, palaeoecology
Flannery, Tim ,
| Macquarie University, Division of Environmental & Life Sciences
| other: Palaeontology, Palaeobotany, palaeoecology
Kear, Ben | SA Museum & University of Adelaide | other:
vertebrate palaeontology
Kershaw, Peter (CI)
,
Professor of Geography & Environmental Science |
Monash University, Centre for Palynology & Palaeoecology |
other: Palaeontology, palaeobotany, palaeoecology
Lee, Michael (CI), Senior Researcher | SA Museum & Univesity of
Adelaide | other: Reptile ecology and evolution
Rich, Tom, Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology | Museum Victoria
| other: vertebrate palaeontology
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Phylogenetics/Phylogeny
Christidis, Les (CI), Assistant Director (Sicience and Collections) Australian
Museum, Sydney | other: evolution
Park, Yung Chul | Flinders University | other:
Phylogenetics and social evolution of wood feeding cockroaches
Price, Bronwyn | University of Queensland, Centre for Remote Sensing
and Spatial Information Science | other: Modelling
spatio-temporal ecological processes
Steane, Dorothy, Senior Research Fellow | University of Tasmania,
School of Plant Science | other: plant population genetics,
phylogenetics and evolution
Symonds, Matthew | James Cook University | other:
Macroecology and phylogeny of Australian birds
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Plant ecology
Barbour, Robert | University of Tasmania | other: Hybridisation
between plantation and native eucalypts and genetic impacts on biodiversity
Grove,
Simon | Forestry Tasmania, Biology and Conservation Branch |
other: Plant ecology/evolution
Hopkins, Angas, Principal Research Scientist | Department of Environment
& Conservation | other: disturbance ecology, monitoring/observation
systems
Huston, Michael | Texas State University, Department of Biology,
San Marcos | other: biodiversity of all ecosystems, ecological
and evolutionary processes
Lowe, Andrew, Chair in Plant Conservation Biology, Dept for Environment &
Heritage/Univesity of Adelaide | other: Phylogeography, population
genetics, plant evolution
Luly, John, Senior Lecturer | James Cook University, QLD | other:
Quaternary palynology(arid areas)
Macphail, Michael, Visiting Fellow | Australian National University,
Archaeology & Natural History, ACT | other: Cenozoic-Mesozoic
palynology, Australian region
Read, Jennifer, Associate Professor | Monash University, School of Biological
Sciences | other: Plant ecology
Runciman, David | La Trobe University | other: Effects of
habitat fragmentaion on log-dwelling invertebrates at tumut, NSW
Westoby,
Mark (CI) | Macquarie Univesity, Dept. of Biological Sciences
| other: Plant ecology/evolution
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Population Genetics
Baker, Andrew | School of Natural Resource Sciences, Brisbane |
other: Population genetics, phylogenetics, biodiversity and sustainable
environmental management
Doleman, Gaynor | CSIRO Australian National Wildlife Collection |
other: Phylogeography, population genetics
FitzSimmons, Nancy, Senior Lecturer | University of Canberra, Applied
Ecology Research Group | other: Population genetics/phylogeography
Garrick, Ryan | Dept. of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
other: phylogeography, molecular phylogeny
Hickerson, Michael | Univesity of California, Berkeley, Department of
Integrative Biology | other:
Hughes, Jane | Griffith University, Centre for Riverine Landscapes,
QLD | other: Population genetics, phylogeography
Moore, Ben | James Cook University | other: phylogeography
Ottewell, Kym | University of Adelaide, Centre for Ecology & Evolutionary
Biology | other: Plant population, genetics/evolution
Sumner, Joanna | Melbourne University and Museum Victoria |
other: phylogeography & population genetics of reptiles
Wilcox, Chris, Senior Research Scientist | CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric
Research, Tasmania | other: Population modelling
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Systematics
Joseph, Leo, Research Director, Curator | Australian
National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, ACT | other:
Ornithology, biogeography, phylogeography
Kohler, Fank | Australian Museum, Science Division | other:
molecular phylogeny, biogeography
Ladiges, Pauline, Head, School of Botany | University of Melbourne
| other: Plant systematics/phylogeny/evolution
Lambkin, Christine | Queensland Museum | other: Systematics
of Australian therevid flies
Potts, Brad, Program Manager, CRC Sustainable Production Forestry | Univesity
of Tasmania, School of Plant Science | other: Plant systematics/forest
genetics/evolution
Slatyer, Cameron | Director, Australian Biological Resources Study
| Area: Mapping of species richness and endemism
Walker-Smith, Genefor | SA Museum | other: Systematics of
harpacticoidcopepods (Crustacea)
West, Judy (CI) | CSIRO Plant Industry | other: Plant systematics
Weston, Peter (CI), Principal Research Scientist | Royal Botanic
Gardens, NSW | other: Systematics, historical biogeography
Blacket, Mark | Monash University | other:
vertebrate and invertebrate phylogeography and speciation
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