Postgraduate Students 2007 - Research Topics & Supervisors

"Charcoal at Ngarrabullgan: Archaeology, vegetation history and charcoal analysis from Cape York "

"An historic and spatial analysis of urban land subject to natural and anthropogenic hazards."

“Effective Partnerships for the Management of Water Resources: An Evaluation of Australian Partnership Experiences”

"Comparison of the community involvement in Environmental Impact Assessment in Thailand and Australia"

"Coping with Melbourne 2030: Redefining the Role of Recreational Open Space, Public or Otherwise"

"Time-Series land cover mapping of the Lang Lang catchment 1947-2000"

“Measuring and modelling long-term vegetation change in the Victorian Alps at the landscape scale using remote sensing, Markov chains and Bayesian analysis.”

“Institutional aspects of integrated water resource management/environmental transboundary security”

“The Effect of Urban Density Morphologies on Human Thermal Comfort Levels”

“Australian alpine soil and vegetation relationships and their development with regional climate change”

“Building Community through Community Gardening - Examining the role of community gardens in Melbourne's urban activity centres in contributing to sustainable communities”

"The potentials of agro-forestry technologies in land resource management in the tropical rainforest of Ghana."

"Changes in observed climate extremes in southern Australia: Societal and ecological impacts and links to changes in large scale circulation patterns".

“Dust Entrainment, Transport and Deposition in Saudi Arabia”

“Archaeology of Totalai, Mua, Torres Strait”

“Archaeology of the Eastern highlands, Papua New Guinea”

“The effect of wildfire on hydrological behaviour, and soil physical & chemical properties in the alpine zone, north-eastern Victoria.”

"The application of sedimentary analysis to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, in a study of Caladonia Fen, in the Bennison plains Eastern Victoria"

“Environmental and human factors influencing fire activity under inter-annual climate variability in northern Australia”

“The Bishnoi Community of India - A Study of Traditional Environmental Ethics and Practice”

"The influence of housing density on the surface energy balance and regional scale circulations across Melbourne, Australia"

"The Role of Islets in the Development of Torres Strait Islander Culture"

“HIV/AIDS and Refugees: Impact of a Rights Based Approach”

"The Kashgar oasis: Predictive modeling of ancient settlement distribution by means of GIS and remote sensing".

"Modelling Atmosphere/Biosphere interactions and feedbacks in the Arctic (Climatology/ecology)."

“Adaptability and change of customary forest institutions in Kerinci, Central Sumatra, Indonesia.”

"Multi-proxy evidence for the glacial/Holocene transition, Tower Hill, Victoria."

“The interaction between solar radiation and aerosols and its role in Savanna productivity: an integrated approach”

“Carbon, water and energy cycles of different aged forest stands and investigate how they change over successional time scales”

“Time-series land cover change in Casey LGA: Hydrological policy and planning implications”

“Investigation of coupled carbon and water cycle of Mountain Ash forests over hourly to centennial time scales.”

“Archaeological landscapes in a changing environment: west central Sardinia from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period.”

"The limnology and palaeoecology of Yarra River Billabongs: a contribution to applied palaeolimnology in Australia."

"Late Holocene vegetation dynamics of Western Victoria with application to landscape conservation and restoration."

“Terrain modelling for wetland and salinity management: experiments using a range of digital data streams and image fusion, with special reference to LiDAR data”

"Re-imagining cultural citizenship"

“Does the Australian climate pose a threat to Australians with heart disease? Climate and acute myocardial infarction in Melbourne Australia: a retrospective study 1993 – 2003.”

“Interactions between fire regime and carbon and water dynamics in alpine ecosystems: Impacts and implications of a changing climate”

"The role of fire in the development and maintenance of temporal and spatial variability in tall open forest vegetation, Central Highlands, Victoria."

"Environmental factors driving within-vineyard variability in grape yield and quality"

"Housing/Household demography"

"Detection, Monitoring and Analysis of Dust Storms and their Sources in the Australian Outback. A Climatology and Geomorphology approach"

"Heavy Metal Contaminants in Soil"

"Onset And Retreat Of The Monsoon Over Indonesia"

"Agribusiness and rural development in Indonesia."

“Characterising climate change vulnerabilities and implications for adaptation strategies in Alpine Regions - A case study of the tourism and recreation industries in Alpine Shire and Victorian Alps, Victoria”

“Annual to Decadal Perspective on Tropical Climate Variability from the Last Glacial to the Present: Lynch's Crater, Northeast Queensland, Australia”

“Religious tourism and environmental issues at sacred sites in India.”

"Early Quaternary cyclic vegetation change in upland Western Victoria."

"Relationship between Tourism in National Parks and Community-Based Conservation: the Case of West Bali National Park, Indonesia"

"Climate change impact assessment for Alpine Shire, Victoria"

“Advancing Sustainable Urban Water Governance: an institutional capacity assessment framework for Greater Metropolitan Melbourne”

"Impact of savanna fires on heat, moisture and carbon dioxide fluxes to the atmosphere and feedbacks to local and regional climate."

"Spatial Decision Support for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Victoria: Constraints and Opportunities"

"Climate change and environmental response in southwestern Victoria: a palaeoecological record from Lake Surprise, Western Plains of Victoria"

“Patterns and processes of carbon and water budgets across Northern Australian landscapes”

“Catchment vegetation change detection and monitoring: improvement in theory and practice through fusion of multi-temporal imagery and Lidar data”