Postdoctoral research fellows
Dr Fernanda Adame
Blue Carbon Scientist Global Wetlands Program 
Dr Ryan Pearson
Marine Ecologist Global Wetlands Program 
Dr Eva McClure
Fish and Coral Ecologist Global Wetlands Program 
Dr Christina Beulow
Statistical Ecologist and Modeler Global Wetlands Program |
Dr Mischa Turschwell
Statistical Ecologist ARC Discovery Project CRC Blue Economy (led by Chris Brown) 
Dr Michael Sievers
Marine Ecologist Global Wetlands Program ARC DECRA Fellow 
Dr Cesar Herrera Acosta
Techno-ecologist and data scientist Global Wetlands Program |
Natasha Watson
Science Communicator Global Wetlands Program |
Eric Jinks
Senior Software Engineer Global Wetlands Program |
Partner researchers - GLOW (Global Wetlands Project)
Dr Anusha Rajkaran
University of Western Cape, South Africa 
Dr Ana Sousa
University of Aveiro, Portugal 
Mahua Roy Chowdhury
University of Calcutta Sundarbans, Kolkata, India 
Dr Paul Maxwell
EcoFutures and Alluvium Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia |
Prof. Brendan Mackey
Climate Change Response Program, Griffith University Tanna Island, Vanuatu (the Mackey lab) 
Prof. Shing-Yip (Joe) Lee
Chinese University of Hong Kong Pearl River, Hong Kong, China (the Lee lab) |
Research officers
Kris Jinks
Global Wetlands Program |
Max Campbell
Promoting ecosystem resilience through connectivity |
Adjunct researchers
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 
Dr David Rissik
BMT Consulting, and adjunct Coast & Estuaries, Australian Rivers Institute Climate adaptation and marine habitat restoration |
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
Andria Ostrowski
Experimental testing of interacting stressors on coastal wetlands (with Michael Sievers) See key paper 
Ellen Ditria
Automated reporting of ecosystem services in wetlands (with Christina Buelow) See key paper 
Sebastian Lopez
Artificial intelligence for wetland conservation: tracking fish abundance and movement (with Chris Brown) See key paper |
Kris Jinks
Valuing seagrass ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - their role in food webs (with Chris Brown) See key paper 
Alyssa Giffin
Coral-seagrass connections for fisheries and their role in Ecosystem Based Adaptation (with Chris Brown) See key paper 
Laura Griffiths Managing vulnerable coastal environments for interactions among multiple threats (with Chris Brown) See key paper |
Recent PhD graduates
Yota Harada
Food-web consequences of the world's largest mangrove forest die-off Graduated 2020 See key paper 
Dale Bryan-Brown
Marine connectivity and dispersal in habitat-forming species Graduated 2020 See key paper 
Tyson Martin
Functional ecology of fish on coral reefs Graduated 2018 (see Tyson's work with Maria Beger in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean) |
Sarah Engelhard
Connectivity in marine ecosystems: network analysis of fish-habitat interactions Graduated 2018 See key paper 
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 |