Researcher Anthology

Current Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Associates, Fellowship Holders and Visitors

• Dr Kym Ottewell (2008-2009) employed on DEH grant
• Dr Ed Biffin (2007-2010) employed on ARC discovery grant (biogeographic know how)
• Dr Mike Gardner (2006-2011) employed on ARC discovery grant and DEH funds
• Dr Peter Prentis (2005-2009) employed on SET, QNRM&W and ARC discovery grants

Current PhD students

• Gareth Smith Belton (2010-ongoing) Taxonomy, phylogenetics and phylogeography of the Great Australian Bight macroalgae: biodiversity and the relict species concept. PhD, University of Adelaide (Gurgel F, Lowe AJ)
• Bianca Dunker (2009-ongoing) Seed dispersal, landscape genetics and fire. PhD, Flinders University (Bull M, Lowe AJ, Driscol D)
• Austin Brown (2009-ongoing) Diversification and speciation in Australian grasses. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Cross H, Cantrill D, Metcalf D, [Langridge P])
• Martin Breed (2009-ongoing) Restoration genetics in Murray mallee and Neotropical Forests: implications for management and planning. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Ottewell K, Gardner M)
• Nuttanun Soisup (2009-ongoing) Molecular Systematics of Marine Macroalgae. PhD, University of Adelaide (Gurgel F, Lowe AJ)
• Patricia Fuentes-Cross (2009-ongoing) Humans as agents of landscape change in Australia: vegetation turn over and domestication. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Ryder M, Gardner M)
• Craig Costion (2008-ongoing) The great Australasian floral interchange; developing phylogenetic methods for biogeography and conservation. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Crayn D)
• Jolene Scoble (2008-ongoing) Novel approaches for assessing historical and contemporary vegetation condition in Australian rangelands. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Smyth A, Joseph L, Gardner M)
• Fran MacGilvary (2008-ongoing) Tracking phenological shifts and evolutionary impacts due to climate change. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Conran J, Hudson I)
• Rohan Melick (2008-ongoing) The affect of Quaternary climate change on the distribution of a rainforest gymnosperm (Podocarpus elatus) along the east coast of Australia using palynological and molecular evidence. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Rossetto M, Hill R)
• Margaret Heslewood (2007-ongoing) Phylogeography and biogeography of genera in the family Cunoniaceae in Australia. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Rossetto M, Crayn D)
• Eleanor Dormontt (2007-ongoing) Why do only some exotics become inasive? Combining ecological and genomic approaches to address alternative hypotheses in a recent Australian weed. PhD, University of Adelaide (Lowe AJ, Prentis P, Ostendorf B)
• James Hereward (2006-ongoing) Host association, coevolution and gene flow in mirids. PhD, University of Queensland (Walter G, Lowe AJ)
• Jessie Wells (2001-ongoing) Spatial ecology of plant regeneration in secondary rainforests of the wet tropics. PhD, University of Queensland, (Possingham H, Lowe AJ, Hilbert D)

Past Postdoctoral Researchers, Research Associates, Fellowship Holders and Visitors

• Dr Sam Davies (2007) employed on EU grant (SEEDSOURCE)
• Dr Trish McCelland (2006) joint funding from Royal Society of New Zealand, Marsden grant.
• Ms Sam Davies (2006) employed on EU grant (SEEDSOURCE)
• Ms Heidy Villalobos (2005 & 2007) on Fellowship from Costa Rican government.
• Dr Ming Kang (2006-2007) Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowship.
• Ms Jessie Wells (2005-2006) employed on UQ Research Development Grant
• Dr Carlos Navarro (2005 & 2007) visiting scientist from Costa Rica
• Dr Dom Sigg (2005) employed on QNRM&W grant
• Dr Steph Hazlit (2006) employed on rainforest CRC grant
• Dr Cecile Bacles (2005-2006) EU Marie Curie Fellowship
• Dr Tanya Scharaschkin (2003-2006) Visiting scholar and teaching assistant
• Ms Indira Prasadam (2005-2006) visiting academic and employed on QNRM&W grant
• Dr Marcelle O’Brien (2005-2006) employed on EU grant, SEEDSOURCE
• Dr Leon Scott (2003-2005) employed on EU (OAKFLOW) and University of Queensland grants
• Dr Cecile Bacles (2003-2004) employed on EU project grant, TEAKDIV
• Dr Jan Dick (2001-2003) employed on EU project grant, OAKFLOW
• Ms Kristin Bye-Olsen (1999-2000) employed on CIFOR grant
• Dr Stephen Cavers (1999-2003) employed on EU project grant, INCO, GENEO-TROPECO
• Mr Bob Munro (1998-2003) employed on EU project grants, FAIROAK and OAKFLOW

Past PhD students

• Gunnar Keppel (2004-2009) Rarity, ecology and biogeography of lowland tropical rainforest along a natural diversity gradient in the Southwest Pacific. PhD, University of Queensland (Possingham H, Lowe AJ, Buckley Y)
• David Pavlacky (2003-2008) Avian patch occupancy and historic population dynamics of logrunners (Orthonyx temminckii) in heterogeneous subtropical rainforests of Australia. PhD, University of Queensland (Goldizen A, Lowe AJ, Possingham H)
• Samantha J Davies (2001-2006) The Population Genetic Consequences of Gene Flow during Colonisation and Regeneration of Forest Trees. PhD, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (Lowe AJ, White A, Cavers S)
• Dominique Sigg (1997-2005) Mating behaviour and population genetics of the bridled nail tail wallaby. PhD, University of Queensland (Goldizen A, Popple AR, Lowe AJ)
• Cecile Bacles (2000-2003) Effects of chronic habitat fragmentation on population genetic processes in temperate tree species: The example of rowan and ash in a deforested landscape and implications for native woodland restoration in southern Scotland. PhD, University of Edinburgh (Ennos R, Lowe AJ)
• Stephen Cavers (1999-2002) Population structure and phylogeography of two commercially important neotropical tree species: Vochysia ferruginea Mart. and Cedrela odorata L. PhD, University of Edinburgh (Lowe AJ, Ennos R)
• Barry J Hicks (1998-2001) The History, Ecology and Potential Control of the Pine Beauty Moth, Panolis flammea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Scotland. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh (Watt A, Ennos R, Lowe AJ)