Our staff and students
Ordered by first name
Academic Staff
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)
beth.penrose@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7192
Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 24
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 8
Mr Cameron Yates
Project Coordinator
Cameron.Yates@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6666
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 5
Associate Dean Innovation; Senior Lecturer in STEM Pathways
Carla.Eisemberg@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7721
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
Christine.Schlesinger@cdu.edu.au
08 8959 5218
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
cynthia.coyne@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7192
Casuarina campus Yellow 2.2.06
Outstanding Future Researcher
dylan.irvine@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6762
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 27
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 30
Research Fellow
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 5
Research Officer
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 15
Research Fellow
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 14
Research Fellow
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 18
Casual Research
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 7
Miss Kimberley Day
Casual Research
Casuarina campus
Mr Matthew Northwood
Research Officer
Matthew.Northwood@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7630
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 50
Professor of Tropical Biosecurity
maxine.piggott@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6763
Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 21
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
Mrs Panna Husnain
Casual Research
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 7
Manager, North Australia and Rangelands Fire Information Service
Peter.Jacklyn@cdu.edu.au
0429 091 470
Casuarina campus Red 1
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
Mr Sam Amini
Research Assistant
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 22
Director, Outstanding Professor
sam.banks@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7166
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 8
Research Fellow - Climate Change Impact on NT Ecosystems
Casuarina campus
Research Fellow Bushfires
sofia.oliveira@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6783
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 7
Professor of Tropical Broadacre Cropping Systems
stephen.xu@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7792
Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 22
Professor of Tropical Aquaculture
sunil.kadri@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7752
Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 17
Technical Officer
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 62
Research Fellow - Arboreal Marsupial Ecology & Conservation
Teigan.Cremona@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7728
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 57
Senior Lecturer – Chemistry
Vinuthaa.Murthy@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6794
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
zarah.tinning@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7707
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 61
Adjuncts and Fellows
Adjunct Research Fellow
joanne.randall@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6285
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 32
Mark Sistrom
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Sonu Yadav
Adjunct Research Associate
Professional staff
Ms Hannah Maddison-Harris
Communication and Partnerships Officer
riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7131
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 14
Ms Isabella Mellios
Liaison Officer
North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems
isabella.mellios@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6778
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 1 Room 8
Ms Jamie Payne
Operations Manager
jamie.payne-dave@cdu.edu.au
0410 834 212
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 2
Mrs Kristine McGrath
Manager, Research Institute for Northern Agriculture
kristine.mcgrath@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6435
Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 17a
Ms Roanne Ramsey
Business Manager
Roanne.Ramsey@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6574
Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 38
Mr Ryan Taylor
Assets Officer
riel-assets@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7564
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 2
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
aliesha.hvala@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 6823
Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 3 Room 13
Ms Allyson Malpartida
Project title: eDNA and metabarcoding of terrestrial invertebrates as bioindicators in environmental monitoring
allyson.malpartida@cdu.edu.au
0400 934 284
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
Ms Amy Pilmore
Honours student
Project title: The impacts of cane toads on the distribution of a variety of vertebrates across northern Australia
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 22
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
billee.mcginley@students.cdu.edu.au
0439 899 255
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
bryan.baker@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7482
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
Project title: Climate change, river flows and predator trophic ecology in tropical river-floodplains of northern Australia
Casuarina campus
Mr Dave Drynan
Project title: Management of global fisheries to aid the conservation of sharks
Casuarina campus Yellow 2
Ms Ellen Rochelmeyer
Project title: Hollows, termites and long-term fire regimes in tropical savannas
Casuarina campus Yellow 2
Project title: Does buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) invasion impact plant-animal interactions in an arid system?
ellen.ryan-colton@cdu.edu.au
0478 505 335
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
Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 34
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)
hayley.geyle@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7032
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
isabel.ely@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7019
Casuarina campus Red 1 Level 2 Room 29
Mr Joel Smith
Honours student
Project title: A review of catchment management strategies: Towards an adaptive management plan in the Lower Burdekin Delta
Project title: Movement ecology and natural mortality of threatened river sharks: informing conservation planning.
Casuarina campus
Casuarina campus
Project title: Environmental and disturbance regime constraints on savanna carbon storage in northern Australia
Project title: Environmental and ecological characterisation of subsurface waters in the Magela Creek sand channel
lisa.chandler@cdu.edu.au
08 8920 1129
Casuarina campus
Project title: The role and contribution of mangroves to gendered food and nutrition security and livelihoods in the Indo-Pacific region
Project title: Buffering the rising tide: Mangrove sediment response to accelerating sea level rise in Australia
Project title: Investigating the connection between individual-based movements and population dynamics of grass finches in northern Australia
Casuarina campus
Mr Matthew Hammond
Project title: Effects of climate and oceanographic change on tropical marine fish and fisheries
Casuarina campus
Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 1
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
razib.ahmed@cdu.edu.au
0458 651 147
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
Project title: The ecology and behaviour of terrestrial avifauna associated with long-lasting waterholes of central Australia.
Casuarina campus
Project title: Exploring continental-scale groundwater-related processes using Australia-wide hydrogeochemical data
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
Casuarina campus Yellow 2 Level 2 Room 62
Ms Trish Mooney
Project title: Response of the glossy black cockatoo to the catastrophic 2019-20 Kangaroo Island fires
Project title: The importance of carbon fluxes from seasonal wetlands to streams at a catchment scale in the wet-dry tropics
vanessa.solano@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7685
Casuarina campus Yellow 1 Level 1 Room 1
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
vanya.bosiocic@cdu.edu.au
08 8946 7680
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