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Postdoctoral research fellows

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 Dr Fernanda Adame
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 Blue Carbon Scientist
 Global Wetlands Program



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Dr Ryan Pearson

Marine Ecologist
Global Wetlands Program




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Dr Eva McClure

Fish and Coral Ecologist
Global Wetlands Program


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Dr Christina Beulow

Statistical Ecologist and Modeler
Global Wetlands Program

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Dr Mischa Turschwell
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Statistical Ecologist
ARC Discovery Project
CRC Blue Economy
(led by Chris Brown)

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  Dr Michael Sievers

  Marine Ecologist
  Global Wetlands Program
  ARC DECRA Fellow

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Dr Cesar Herrera Acosta

Techno-ecologist and data scientist
Global Wetlands Program


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Natasha Watson

Science Communicator
Global Wetlands Program

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Eric Jinks

Senior Software Engineer
​Global Wetlands Program




Partner researchers - GLOW (Global Wetlands Project)

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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
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Climate Change Response Program, Griffith University

Tanna Island, Vanuatu
(the Mackey lab)

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Prof. Shing-Yip (Joe) Lee

​Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Pearl River, Hong Kong, China
(the Lee lab)


Research officers

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Kris Jinks

Global Wetlands Program

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Max Campbell

​​Promoting ecosystem resilience through connectivity


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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Dr Andrew Olds
Senior Lecturer, University of Sunshine Coast, adjunct Coast & Estuaries, Australian Rivers Institute

Ecological connectivity in conservation of mangroves-seagrass-coral reefs




PhD students

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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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 Sebastian Lopez
 Artificial intelligence for wetland conservation:
 tracking fish abundance and movement
 (with Chris Brown)

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


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Laura Griffiths
Managing vulnerable coastal environments for interactions among multiple threats (with Chris Brown)

See key paper


Recent PhD graduates

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Yota Harada
Food-web consequences of the world's largest mangrove forest die-off Graduated 2020

See key paper

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Dale Bryan-Brown
Marine connectivity and dispersal in habitat-forming species Graduated 2020

See key paper

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Tyson Martin
Functional ecology of fish on coral reefs
Graduated 2018

(see Tyson's work with Maria Beger in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean)



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Sarah Engelhard
Connectivity in marine ecosystems: network analysis of fish-habitat interactions
Graduated 2018

See key paper

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Ryan Pearson
Shell walls: a new hope. Using barnacle shell isotopes as a conservation tool for understanding the movement ecology of threatened sea turtles Graduated 2018

See key paper


Past PhD students

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Ryan Pearson              Using barnacle shell isotopes as a tool for tracking sea turtle movement
Tyson Martin               Functional ecology of fish on coral reefs
Sarah Engelhard          Connectivity in marine ecosystems: network analysis of fish-habitat interactions      
​Xiaoguang Ouyang      Mineralisation and burial of blue carbon in coastal wetlands
Jean Davis                    Trophic connectivity among tropical coastal habitats and implications for reserves
​Paul Maxwell                Ecological resilience theory: application and testing in seagrass ecosystems
​Andrew Olds                Seascape ecology & conservation: connectivity & reserves in the western Pacific
Melissa Duggan            Effects of freshwater flow on carbon pathways and ecology of tropical estuaries
Jodie Haig                    Historical connectivity of seagrass fauna under changing climate using genetics
Karen Lee                    Stable isotope enrichment and mathematical modelling of estuarine food webs
Tim Smith                    Seagrass patch dynamics and their role in structuring fish communities (at U Melb)
Peter Macreadie            Ecological effects of seagrass fragmentation on fish (at U Melb)
Nathan Waltham          Ecology and contaminants of fish in artificial waterways (canals)
Ruth Young                 Effects of urbanisation on ecological services in coastal wetlands and estuaries
James Webley              The role of scavenging and ecology of larval and juvenile mud crabs
Michael Brickhill             Artificial fish habitat enhancement in estuaries and created canals
Joanne Oakes              Role of microalgae in mangrove food webs using stable isotope enrichment
Jane Jelbart                 Seagrass patch dynamics & connectivity with mangroves: effects on fish (at UWS)
Andrew Melville            Isotope analysis of saltmarsh, mangrove and seagrass in fish nutrition
Michaela Guest             Carbon dynamics in mangrove, saltmarsh & seagrass habitats using isotopes
Tim Stevens                 Design and implementation of representative marine reserves
Mark Breitfuss               Impact of mosquito control on saltmarsh geomorphology, fauna and flora
Frank Coman               Role of zooplankton in nutrition of prawn aquaculture ponds
Elizabeth Clouston       Economic and ecological valuation of ecological services from coastal wetlands
Eri Takahashi               Biology and ecology of double-ended pipefish (Syngnathidae)

Current/recent Honours students

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Michaela Kitchingman
Automated counts of fish using restored mangroves
Beaudee Newbery
Developing measures of fish condition for automated monitoring
Adam Shand (graduated 2020)
Automated size analysis of fish in underwater videos
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