Expertise at Sprigg Centre
The Centre sits within the Environment Institute and is governed by a small management team comprising of:
Professor Martin Kennedy, Director, SGC
Professor Martin Hand, Director, South Australian Centre for Geothermal Energy Research
Professor Alan Cooper, Director, Australian Centre for Ancient DNA
Core Members of the Centre are as follows:
| Research Theme | Name/Position | Research Area |
|---|---|---|
| Records of Life | Dr John Conran, Senior Lecture | Palaeobotany |
| Professor Alan Cooper, Director, Centre for Ancient DNA | Ancient DNA | Palaeoecology | |
| Professor (Adjunct) Jim Gehling, SA Museum | Palaeontology | Ediacaran fauna | |
| Professor Robert Hill, Executive Dean of the Science Faculty & Acting Director, Environment Institute | Palaeobotany | climate change | |
| Dr John Paterson, Future Fellow | Palaeoecology | |
| Associate Professor Mike Lee, SA Museum | Palaeontology | molecular phylogenetics |
|
| Dr Diego C. García-Bellido |
Evolutionary controls of early animals | |
| The response of life to a changing environment |
Professor Martin Kennedy, Director, SGC | Carbon cycling | Ediacaran biosphere | unconventional energy |
| Professor Corey Bradshaw, ARC Future Fellow | Ecological modeling | |
| Professor Barry Brook, Future Fellow, Wilkins Chair of Climate Change | Ecological modeling | climate change | |
| Dr John Tibby, Senior Lecturer | Environmental reconstruction and monitoring | |
| Dr. Francesca McInerney, ARC Future Fellow | Isotope palaeoecology | Molecular fossils | climate change | |
| Mitigation of anthropogenic changes, resources and sustainability | Professor Martin Hand, Director of the SA Centre Geothermal Energy | Tectonics |
| Associate Professor Justin Brookes, Director of the Water Research Centre | Water quality | |
| Professor Graham Heinson, Geophysicist | Geophysics | crustal structure and remote ground water sensing | |
| Biogeochemistry | Professor David Chittleborough | Soils and landscape development |
| Dr Steven Hill, Senior Lecturer | Plant-regolith interactions | element cycling | |
| Dr Frank Reith, ARC Research Fellow | Geomicrobiology | molecular microbial ecology | |
| Associate Professor Dr Joel Brugger, ARC Professorial Fellow | Mineralogy | geobiological mineral precipitation |
