Institute of Advanced Studies  



School for Environmental Research
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
Tel: +61 8 8946 6413
Fax: +61 8 8946 7720
Email: ser@cdu.edu.au 
School for Environmental Research 

Staff

Photograph of Adelaide River by Don Franklin

Prof Stephen Garnett
Director
Professorial Research Fellow

  • Sustainable development, livelihoods in tropics, biodiversity conservation

Assoc Prof Michael Douglas
Theme Leader: Aquatic Ecosystems and Water Resources

  • Aquatic ecology

Assoc Prof Michael Lawes
Theme Leader: Wildlife and Landscape Sciences

  • Forest ecology and conservation

Dr Natasha Stacey
Acting Theme Leader: Livelihoods and Policy

Senior Research Fellow/Program Coordinator

  • Natural resource management and local livelihoods
  • Bajo and Indonesian fishing activity in the Arafura and Timor seas

Gill Ainsworth
Research Associate

  • Livelihoods and Policy Coordinator
  • Web mistress

Dr Heather Aslin

Senior Research Fellow Policy Integration

  • Social science and integration of knowledge, particularly between scientists and policy makers

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Dr Lubomir Bisevac
Research Associate

Hannah Brodie-Hall

NT Communications and Engagement Officer (K&A)

  • TRaCK

Toni Briscoe
Business Manager

Dr Neil Collier
Research Fellow

  • Scenario Modeller

Ian Dixon

Research Associate

  • tropical riparian ecology

Ruth Duncan

Research Associate

  • TRaCK

Dr Iain Field
CDU/AIMS Research Fellow

  • Marine ecology and fisheries management

Dr Donald C. Franklin
Research Fellow

  • Landscape, plant and bird ecology

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Dr Erica Garcia

Research Fellow

Julian Gorman
Research Fellow, CDU

Wildlife Enterprise Development Facilitator, Northern Land Council

  • Commercial utilization of native products
  • Logistics

Cindy Huchery

Research Associate

  • Scenario planning: climate change and shared landscapes

Hmalan Hunter-Xenie
Research Associate, TRaCK and Livelihoods and Policy

  • Indigenous Engagement

Dr Arturo Izurieta

Research Fellow

  • Joint Management

Susan Jacups
Research Associate, Epidemiologist: Mosquito-borne disease project

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Rose Jubber

TRaCK Project Support Officer

Peter Kyne

Research Associate

  • TRaCK

Dr Caroline Lehmann
Research Fellow

  • Savanna dynamics

Emma Ligtermoet

Research Associate

  • FARWH

Dr Clive McMahon

Research Fellow

  • Feral animal research and management

Dr Mark Meekan

CDU/AIMS Principal Research Fellow

  • Coral reef ecosystems; community ecology; population dynamics; fisheries science

Ron Ninnis
Research Associate

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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Jesse Northfield

Communications Officer

  • Media and communications

Sam Pickering

Research Associate

  • Indonesia and Timor Leste Program

Dr Lynda Prior
Research Fellow

  • Landscape and forest ecology

Dr Javier Puig

Research Fellow

  • scenario modeling, climate change

Andrew Raith

Research Associate

  • food webs in tropical aquatic systems

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Heather Robertson
Administrative Support Officer

Conrad Speed
CDU/AIMS Research Associate

  • Whale Shark Ecology

Dr Simon Townsend

Research Fellow

  • Aquatic Ecology

Dr Danielle Warfe

Research Fellow

  • Aquatic Ecology

Dr Merrilyn Wasson
Senior Research Fellow

  • Institutions analysis: natural resource management
  • Livelihoods and policy focus

Dr Kerstin Zander
Research Fellow

  • Economic modelling
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