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

Dr Adam Drucker
Theme Leader: Livelihoods and Policy
Senior Research Fellow

  • Environmental and ecological economics
  • Economics of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use
  • Environmental policy analysis

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

Gill Ainsworth
Research Associate

  • Livelihoods and Policy Coordinator
  • Web mistress

Dr Lubomir Bisevac
Research Associate

Assoc Prof Corey J.A. Bradshaw
Adjunct Associate Professor

  • Marine and terrestrial population ecology, animal behaviour, conservation and management

Toni Briscoe
Business Manager

Dr Rik Buckworth
Adjunct Research Fellow

  • Fisheries science

(on LSL until Feb 09)

Prof Bruce Campbell
Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow

  • Natural resources, livelihoods and conservation
  • Interdisciplinary and collaborative research

Dr Neil Collier
Research Fellow

  • Scenario Modeller

Prof Tony Cunningham
Professorial Research Fellow

  • Natural resources, livelihoods and conservation, ethnoecology

Ian Dixon

Research Associate

  • tropical riparian ecology

Dr Iain Field
CDU/AIMS Research Fellow

  • Marine ecology and fisheries management

Dr Donald C. Franklin
Research Fellow

  • Landscape, plant and bird ecology

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 Jacklyn
Research Associate, Epidemiologist: Mosquito-borne disease project

Rose Jubber

TRaCK Project Support Officer

Caroline Lehmann
Research Fellow

  • Savanna dynamics

Dr Clive McMahon
Research Fellow

  • Feral animal research and management

Ron Ninnis
Research Associate

  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Sam Pickering

Research Associate

  • Indonesia and Timor Leste Program

Dr Noel Preece
Adjunct Research Fellow

  • Revegetation of tropical rainforests, Carbon Trading initiatives, savanna and fire management, biodiversity conservation

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

Heather Robertson
Administrative Support Officer

Conrad Speed
CDU/AIMS Research Associate

  • Whale Shark Ecology

Dr Natasha Stacey
Senior Research Fellow/Program Coordinator

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

Dr Nigel Turvey

Adjunct Principal Research Fellow

  • Combating tropical deforestation, forest investment, forest plantations, landscapes and soils, history of ideas

Dr Simon Townsend

Research Fellow

  • Aquatic Ecology

Penny van Oosterzee

Adjunct

Dr Danielle Warfe

Research Fellow

  • Aquatic Ecology

Dr Merrilyn Wasson
Senior Research Fellow

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

Prof Grahame Webb
Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow

  • Biology, conservation and management of crocodiles and other reptiles
  • Sustainable use of wildlife

Prof Emeritus Patricia Werner
Adjunct Professor

  • Population and community ecology, life histories, ecological succession

Dr Peter J. Whitehead
Adjunct Research Fellow

  • Tropical ecology and wetland ecosystems

Dr John Woinarksi
Adjunct Professor

  • Inventory and monitoring of terrestrial biodiversity

Richard Wood
Research Associate

  • Ecological footprints

Dr Kerstin Zander
Research Fellow

  • Economic modelling
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