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Our Team

​We have a productive team of researchers, students and partners in data science, automation and ecology.
Rod Connolly

Professor Rod Connolly

Rod’s work on the science and automated monitoring of ecosystems is helping to find sustainable solutions to the issues of urbanisation, food security, ecosystem services and climate variability.
Rod's Google Scholar citations

Postdoctoral research fellows

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Dr Mischa Turschwell
​Statistical Ecologist
ARC Discovery Project
CRC Blue Economy
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​Dr Christina Beulow
Statistical Ecologist and Modeler
Global Wetlands Project
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​Dr Michael Sievers
  Marine Ecologist
  Global Wetlands Project
  ARC DECRA Fellow
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Dr Jaramar Villarreal Rosas
Conservation scientist
Global Wetlands Project
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​Dr Ryan Pearson
Marine Ecologist
Global Wetlands Project
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​Dr Cesar Herrera Acosta
Techno-ecologist and data scientist
Global Wetlands Project
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​Alzayat Saleh
Data science and computer vision
Global Wetlands Project

Research officers

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Michaela Kitchingman
Field and laboratory support
Global Wetlands Project
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​Jasmine Rasmussen
Field and laboratory support
Global Wetlands Project
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Charlotte McAneney
Field and laboratory support
Global Wetlands Project
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​Eric Jinks
Senior Software Engineer
​Global Wetlands Project
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Kris Jinks
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Field and laboratory support
Global Wetlands Project
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​Max Campbell
​​Statistics and modelling
Global Wetlands Project

 Partner researchers - Global Wetlands Project (GLOW)

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​ Dr Fernanda Adame
​ Blue Carbon and Nutrients in wetlands
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Dr Anusha Rajkaran
University of Western Cape, South Africa
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Dr Ana Sousa
University of Aveiro, Portugal
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​Mahua Roy Chowdhury
​University of Calcutta
Sundarbans, Kolkata, India
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Dr Paul Maxwell
EcoFutures and Alluvium
​Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia
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Dr Chris Brown
 GLOW Research Leader, Griffith University
(The Brown lab)
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Prof. Brendan Mackey
​Climate Change Beacon, Griffith University
Tanna Island, Vanuatu
(The Mackey lab)
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Prof. Shing-Yip (Joe) Lee
​Chinese University of Hong Kong
​Pearl River, Hong Kong, China
(The Lee lab)

Adjunct researchers

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​Dr Chantal Huijbers
Biodiversity and Climate Change Virtual Laboratory, adjunct Coast and Estuaries, Australian Rivers Institute.
 
Movement of fish in coastal marine habitats: mangrove-seagrass-coral reef systems
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​Dr David Rissik
BMT Consulting, and adjunct Coast & Estuaries, Australian Rivers Institute
 
Climate adaptation and marine habitat restoration
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​Associate Professor Andrew Olds
University of Sunshine Coast, adjunct Coast & Estuaries, Australian Rivers Institute
 
Ecological connectivity in conservation of mangroves-seagrass-coral reefs

PhD candidates

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Andria Ostrowski
 Experimental testing of interacting stressors on coastal wetlands
​(with Michael Sievers)
See key paper
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​Ellen Ditria
​Automated reporting of ecosystem services in wetlands
​(with Christina Buelow)
See key paper
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Kris Jinks
Valuing seagrass ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - their role in food webs
(with Chris Brown)
See key paper
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Alyssa Giffin
Coral-seagrass connections for fisheries and their role in Ecosystem Based Adaptation
(with Chris Brown)
​See key paper

PhD graduates

Recent graduates

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Sebastian Lopez-Marcano
Graduated 2022
Computer vision techniques in fish population connectivity
See key paper
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Laura Griffiths
Graduated 2022
Managing vulnerable coastal environments for interactions among multiple threats
See key paper
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Yota Harada
Graduated 2020
Food-web consequences of the world's largest mangrove forest die-off
See key paper
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Dale Bryan-Brown
Graduated 2020
Marine connectivity and dispersal in habitat-forming species
See key paper
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Tyson Martin
Graduated 2018
Functional ecology of fish on coral reefs
See video of Tyson’s work with Maria Beger
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Sarah Engelhard
Graduated 2018
Connectivity in marine ecosystems: network analysis of fish-habitat interactions
See key paper
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Ryan Pearson
Graduated 2018
Using barnacle shell isotopes as a conservation tool for understanding the movement ecology of threatened sea turtles
See key paper

Past graduates

Andrew Melville
Isotope analysis of saltmarsh, mangrove and seagrass in fish nutrition

Andrew Olds
Seascape ecology & conservation: connectivity & reserves in the western Pacific

Elizabeth Clouston
Economic and ecological valuation of ecological services from coastal wetlands

Eri Takahashi
Biology and ecology of double-ended pipefish (Syngnathidae)

Frank Coman
Role of zooplankton in nutrition of prawn aquaculture ponds

James Webley
The role of scavenging and ecology of larval and juvenile mud crabs

Jane Jelbart
Seagrass patch dynamics & connectivity with mangroves: effects on fish

Jean Davis
Trophic connectivity among tropical coastal habitats and implications for reserves
Joanne Oakes
Role of microalgae in mangrove food webs using stable isotope enrichment

Jodie Haig
Historical connectivity of seagrass fauna under changing climate using genetics

Karen Lee
Stable isotope enrichment and mathematical modelling of estuarine food webs

Mark Breitfuss
Impact of mosquito control on saltmarsh geomorphology, fauna and flora

Melissa Duggan
Effects of freshwater flow on carbon pathways and ecology of tropical estuaries

Michael Brickhill
Artificial fish habitat enhancement in estuaries and created canals

Michaela Guest
Carbon dynamics in mangrove, saltmarsh & seagrass habitats using isotopes

Nathan Waltham
Ecology and contaminants of fish in artificial waterways
​Paul Maxwell
Ecological resilience theory: application and testing in seagrass ecosystems

Peter Macreadie
Ecological effects of seagrass fragmentation on fish

Ruth Young
Effects of urbanisation on ecological services in coastal wetlands and estuaries

Sarah Engelhard
Connectivity in marine ecosystems: network analysis of fish-habitat interactions 

Tim Smith
Seagrass patch dynamics and their role in structuring fish communities

Tim Stevens 
Design and implementation of representative marine reserves

Xiaoguang Ouyang
Mineralisation and burial of blue carbon in coastal wetlands

Honours students

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Michaela Kitchingman
Automated counts of fish using restored mangroves
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Beaudee Newbery
Developing measures of fish condition for automated monitoring
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Jasmine Rasmussen
Restoration of polluted coastal ecosystems as ecological traps
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Charlotte McAneney
Restored reefs as fish habitat
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Ainsley Leaning
Automated recording of seagrass type and cover in UAV imagery

Recent alumni

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Natasha Watson
Science Communicator
Global Wetlands Project
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Eva McClure
Fish and Coral Ecologist
Global Wetlands Project
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Viv Tulloch
Conservation decision-maker and modeller
Global Wetlands Project
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Adam Shand
Computer vision for fish counting in underwater videos
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