When asked to describe herself, creative arts student at CDU Ally Peckett digs deep: “I’m a passionate interdisciplinary eco-feminist artist who connects aesthetic creativity and narratives about social and environmental themes.”
Ecosystems are highly gendered – women and men derive different values and benefits from ecosystem services and resources, and they hold different roles in accessing, using and managing these resources.
Dr Erica Garcia is an aquatic ecologist at CDU’s Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods and is a lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Dr Dylan Irvine has expertise in groundwater hydrology, the use of hydrological tracers (including isotopes and the temperature), groundwater-surface water interaction and coastal hydrogeology
Professor Hamish Campbell is a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Professor Natasha Stacey is an environmental anthropologist and currently leads a small group of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers in RIEL researching sustainable resource management, food security and coastal livelihood projects in northern Australia, Indonesia and Timor Leste.