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Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods

RIEL people

Our staff and students

Ordered by first name

Academic Staff

Mr Aasish Adhikari

Research

Casuarina campus


Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 62


Senior Lecturer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 1


Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 59


Dr Benjamin Brown

Postdoctoral Researcher

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 29


Associate Professor of Pastoral Production Systems and Sustainability

Research Institute for Northern Agriculture (RINA)

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 24


Dr Bill Howcroft

Research fellow

Casuarina campus


Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 26


Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 8


Mr Cameron Yates

Project Coordinator

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 5


Associate Dean Innovation; Senior Lecturer in STEM Pathways

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 3 Room 27


Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Marine Fauna

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 57


Postdoctoral fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 32


Associate Professor

Alice Springs campus Building 15 Level 2 Room 7


Senior Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 32


Ms Claire Johnston

Taxonomic List Governance Officer

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 36


Ms Cynthia Coyne

Communications, Extension & Adoption Project Leader

Casuarina campus Yellow 2.2.06


Technical Officer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2


Dr Donna Lewis

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Casuarina campus


Outstanding Future Researcher

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 27


Senior Lecturer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 58


Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 30


Mr Glen Shennan

Spatial Analyst - Ecological Remote Sensing


Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 5


Dr Ian Davies

Academic

Casuarina campus


Research Officer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 15


Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 9


Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 14


Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 18


Associate Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 3


Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 47


Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 35


Senior Lecturer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 13


Miss Kimberley Day

Casual Research

Casuarina campus


Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 28


Lecturer

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 3 Room 17


Mr Matthew Northwood

Research Officer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 50


Professor of Tropical Biosecurity

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 21


Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2


Senior Lecturer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 2


Md Nazmul Chowdhury Srabon

Casual Research - Environment

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 7


Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 3


Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 33


Mrs Panna Husnain

Casual Research

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 7


Software Developer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 7


Senior Lecturer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 11


Manager, North Australia and Rangelands Fire Information Service

Casuarina campus Red 1


Senior Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 12


Research Fellow, Remote sensing riparian vegetation

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 8


Ms Rebecca Ludgate

Chief Remote Pilot

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 3 Room 13


Dr Richard Crabbe

Lecturer - Remote Sensing

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 10


Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 6


Mr Sam Amini

Research Assistant

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 22


Director, Outstanding Professor

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 8


Research Fellow - Climate Change Impact on NT Ecosystems

Casuarina campus


Professor Sarah Legge

Research Professor Conservation Management


Senior Lecturer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 6


Research Fellow Bushfires

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 7


Professor of Tropical Broadacre Cropping Systems

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 22


Professor of Tropical Aquaculture

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 17


Technical Officer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 62


Research Fellow - Arboreal Marsupial Ecology & Conservation

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 57


Senior Lecturer – Chemistry

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 4


Mr Waseem Ahmed

Technical Officer

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 26


Dr Yujuan (Jady) Li

Research Fellow – Plant Biosecurity

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 26


Ms Zarah Tinning

Research Assistant

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 61


Adjuncts and Fellows

Dr Adam Smart

Adjunct Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 8


Dr Alex Kutt

Adjunct Professor


Dr Amanda Lilleyman

Adjunct


Dr Bevlyne Sithole

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow


Dr Catherine Nano

University Fellow


Dr Dan Edwards

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

MAGNT campus


Dr Donald Franklin

Adjunct Research Fellow


Dr Greg Leach

Adjunct Associate Professor


Mrs Jaana Dielenberg

University Fellow


Adjunct Research Fellow

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 32


Adjunct Senior Research Fellow


Dr Kenneth Evans

Adjunct Professor


Dr Mark Grubert

University Fellow


Mark Sistrom

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow


Dr Noel Preece

University Fellow


Dr Penny Van-Oosterzee

University Fellow


University Fellow


Dr Rik Buckworth

Adjunct Professor


Dr Ron Firth

University Fellow


Dr Rosemary Hohnen

Adjunct Research Fellow


Dr Samantha Nowland

Adjunct Research Fellow


Scott Thomson

Adjunct Research Fellow


Dr Simon Townsend

University Fellow


Sonu Yadav

Adjunct Research Associate


Dr Stephen Morton

University Fellow


Professional staff

Ms Hannah Maddison-Harris

Communication and Partnerships Officer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 14


Ms Isabella Mellios

Liaison Officer

North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 8


Ms Jamie Payne

Operations Manager

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 2


Mrs Kristine McGrath

Manager, Research Institute for Northern Agriculture

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 17a


Ms Roanne Ramsey

Business Manager

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 38


Mr Ryan Taylor

Assets Officer

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 2


Mr Will Kemp

Web Administrator


Students

Ms Áine Nicholson

Project title: The role of disturbances in the distribution and resilience of the savannah-forest mosaics of Asia


Mr Acacio Da Costa Guterres

Project title: Enhancing red rice production in lowland areas of Timor-Leste: variety selection, soil improvement and technology transfer to farmers

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2


Mr Adam Rexroade

Project title: Predicting gaseous evasion from streams across tropical Australia

Casuarina campus


Mr Adrian Gurra

Project title: The ecology of the geckos in Girraween National Park, Queensland


Mr Alex Carey

Project title: Using landscape genetics and other tools to understand how spatial patterns of fire affect the dispersal and persistence of mammals on the Tiwi Islands


Ms Aliesha Hvala

Project title: Optimising coastal marine debris management through RPAS remote sensing and AI-enabled solutions

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 3 Room 13


Ms Allyson Malpartida

Project title: eDNA and metabarcoding of terrestrial invertebrates as bioindicators in environmental monitoring

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 62


Ms Amanda Billotti

Project title: Assessing fish communities in Darwin Harbor utilising Baited Remote Underwater Videos (BRUVs)

Casuarina campus


Mr Andrew Esparon

Project title: Implementing deep learning architectures to extract vegetation species composition from drone-based hyperspectral images.

Casuarina campus


Mr Andrew Hunt

Project title: Rating an applicants corporate social responsibility


Mr Angga Rachmansah

Project title: The effects of disturbance (primarily fire and grazing) on lizards in Australian tropical savannas

Casuarina campus


Mr Anthony Albrecht

Project title: Attitudinal and behavioural changes in audiences caused by the experience of environmental art


Ms Benaya Simeon

Project title: Examining shark and ray catches in small-scale fisheries of the Riau islands to inform conservation planning of a critically endangered wedge fish

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 1


Ms Billee McGinley

Project title: Spatial analysis identifying where in the Northern Territory is suitable for sustainable development of utility-scale solar farms

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2


Mr Bryan Baker

Project title: Understanding the efficiency and efficacy of underwater video cameras for surveying and monitoring freshwater fishes in tropical wetlands


Mr Bryn Pickering

Honours student

Project title: Evaluating the short-term success of a translocation of brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatus) onto an offshore island at Cobourg Peninsula

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 22


Ms Candy Duff

Project title: Rainfall characterisation to inform hydrological and hydrogeological insights across northern Australia

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 17


Mr Dave Drynan

Project title: Management of global fisheries to aid the conservation of sharks


Ms Ellen Rochelmeyer

Project title: Hollows, termites and long-term fire regimes in tropical savannas

Casuarina campus Yellow 2


Ms Emily Taljaard

Project title: Threatened Marine Species Bycatch Mitigation in Northern Australian Fisheries

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 1


Project title: Future climate change impacts on North Australia water resources


Mr François Brassard

Project title: Responses of ant communities to environmental stress and disturbance in Australian tropical savannas: Are the hypogaeic and epigaeic strata decoupled?

Casuarina campus


Project title: Investigating the interactions of threatening processes that drive mammal population trends on the Tiwi Islands

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 1


Mr Getahun Kassa Mengesha

Project title: Forest-based climate change adaptation for reducing local people's vulnerability

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 1


Ms Hayley Geyle

Project title: The conservation ecology of the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis)

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 1


Ms Helen Truscott

Project title: The effectiveness of the northern long-necked turtle as an umbrella species in the conservation of wetland ecosystems in northern australia, and feasibility of commercialization through understanding nest ecology and incubation


Ms Isabel Ely

Project title: Ecological processes compromising the consumption of long-necked turtles (Chelodina oblonga) in the Finniss River floodplain, Northern Territory, Australia

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 29


Mr Matthew Hammond

Project title: Effects of climate and oceanographic change on tropical marine fish and fisheries

Casuarina campus


Ms Nilanjana Biswas

Project title: Changing times, changing tides: Women's engagement in the Northern Territory seafood sector

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 29


Ms Nur Isiyana Wianti

Project title: Vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to Sama-Bajo women fisher livelihood disruptions in Indonesia

Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 29


Mr Oscar Metcalfe

Project title: Developing ecosystem services based economic opportunities for indigenous communities in northern Australia


Mr Othusitse Lekoko

Project title: Spatial characterization of physiognomic properties of African savanna vegetation for quantification of bushfire emissions and the impact of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana)


Ms Penelope Godwin

Project title: The influence of landcover and other environmental controls on groundwater yields in Sumba, Indonesia.


Ms Porni Mollick

Project title: Climate Change and Water Extraction Impacts on Wetlands Condition in Northern Australia

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 17


Ms Rachel Murphy

Project title: To what extent does prescribed burning leverage unburnt habitat in subsequent years in central Australian ecosystems?


Mr Razib Ahmed

Project title: The calibration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using uncooled thermal cameras and how the accuracy varies with atmospheric conditions and flight elevation

Casuarina campus Purple 12 Level 2 Room 28


Project title: Connections between the wellbeing of indigenous communities and their lands.

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 63


Ms Tayhlia Casey

Honours student

Project title: Using remote sensing to identify environmental impacts of the growing Northern Territory estuarine crocodile populations

Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 22


Ms Vanya Bosiocic

Project title: Understanding the opportunities, limitations and cultural considerations of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into the remote healthcare delivery model of the Northern Territory

Casuarina campus Orange 2 Level 1 Room 17


Mr Waseem Ahmed

Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 26


Ms Zarah Tinning

Project title: Microbiota and tropical rock oyster health

Casuarina campus


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