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Staff involved in teaching and research:

  • Director: Senior Lecturer Dr. Xuan Zhu, PhD

Current Students enrolled in GIS Masters/PhD programs:

  • Mr. Seyedhossein Pourali (started PhD 2010)
  • Ms. Courtney Leigh (started MA 2010)
  • Ms. Sultana Nasrin Nury (started PhD 2010)
  • Ms. Sultana Nasrin Baby (started MA  2009)
  • Mr. Mahfuzul Haque (started PhD 2008)
  • Mr. Reza Amiri (started PhD 2008)
  • Mr. Zhenyu Zhang (PhD 2005)

Chronological List of Completed Honours, Masters, Doctoral thesis and GIS project (authors and titles):

  • Thi Hong Thu Phan 2011 ( PhD) Spatial analysis of residential urban form changes: a detailed-geography approach to monitoring results of urban consolidation policy, exemplified for the Melbourne Metropolitan Area.
  • Peter Wheeler 2010 ( PhD) Spatial decision support for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Victoria, Australia: constraints and opportunities.
  • Xiaoye Liu 2010 (PhD) Realising the potential of airborne LiDAR data in high quality DEM generation: tests in applications to a catchment management region.
  • Edward Cheng 2009 MSc Golf course Relocation and Redevelopment in the Melbourne 2030 Context: Landuse Changes and Attitudes of Local Residents.
  • Narsimha Garlapati 2009 MSc Lang Lang catchment canopy cover changes (1947-2004): exemplifying increased significance of time-series air photo archive in Catchment Management
  • Kevin Haddow 2009 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS Project Title: Development of a Spatial Data Management System for the Melbourne Olympic Park Trust Irrigation Network.
  • Courtney Leigh 2008 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS Project Title: Site selection for bicycle parking facilities for Monash University Campuses.
  • Christopher Blazkow 2008 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS: The orthorectification of aerial photography for Loch Sport
  • Joshua Martin 2008 BEnvSc Hons Thesis: An environmental and economic GIS scenario-based analysis of ecosytem services performed by urban tress in Ringwood and Greensborough, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Joshphar Kunapo 2008 (PhD) Modelling hydrological impacts of residential development within an administratively-divided catchment:Exemplification using Cranbourne/Lyndhurstdevelopment plan, Victoria,Australia.
  • Margaret Loughnan 2008 (PhD) The heart of the matter:Geographical insights into the environmental and social epidemiology of acute myocardial infarcation in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Lisa Carpenter 2008 MEng Practicality of the index of stream condition field survey sampling program
  • Matt Okurowski 2007 BEnvSc Hons Thesis:.  Predicting the potential habitat for the toothed Leionema using a GIS-based weights-of-evidence model
  • Jacinta DeLang 2006 BA Hons Thesis: Marina Development: An evolving typology of the many pathways to success (andfailure), Port Phillip Bay, Victoria.
  • Pauline Byrt 2006 MA thesis: Spatial patterns of patients attending the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital: a search for explanations.
  • Anupam Mishra 2005 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS Project Title: Data and Information Integration for Facilities Management: A Web GIS Approach
  • Karen Jones 2005 BSc Hons Thesis: Scratching the surface: Local analysis of erosion gully impact on farmers in Highland Madagascar
  • Emma Platt 2005 BEnvSc Hons Thesis: The use of time-series imagery in decision support for catchment management: Exemplification from Crystal and Settlers Creek, West Gippsland
  • Peter Wheeler BA Hons 2005 Thesis: Morphometric change in the Entrance and Reeves Channels of the Gippsland Lakes (1889-2005): Implications for integrated coastal zone management, Vols 1 & 2
  • Nicole Kindler 2005 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS Project Title: Spatial data preparation for a project designed to select sites for native bird habitat restoration: making the best of the archival data in East Gippsland
  • Dave Bulman 2005 (PhD) The application of remote sensing imagery to weed mapping: a case study of Paterson's Curse ( Echium plantagineum L .)
  • JaeYong Yoo 2005 (PhD) Spatial modelling approaches to storm-water management:tests from contrasting suburban and semi-rural areas in two countries
  • Michael McMohan 2005 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS Project Title: Effects of changing landform elevations on flood modelling within the Eumemmerring Creek and Hallam Valley Catchment area, using Geographic Information Systems and Global Positioning Systems.
  • Steven Cyphers 2004 M.Qual Thesis: Archaeological site modelling using geospatial raster calculations, Mua, Badu and Mabuiag Island, Torres Strait, Qld.
  • Sarah Burns 2004 MSc Prelim Thesis: The temporal and spatial distribution of dry season fires on indigenous lands of North-Central Arnhem Land: A feasibility study using MODIS satellite imagery.
  • Andrew Ireson 2004 BEnvSc Hons Thesis: Coastal geomorphology in Port Phillip Bay, Australia: A case study from Green point to Picnic Point.
  • Musa Kilinc 2004 BSc Hons Thunderstruck: Thesis: The spatial and temporal distribution of lightning strikes in the Northern Territory.
  • Elouise Andrieux 2003 BEnvSc Hons Thesis: Salt marsh vegetation: Factors attributing to its degradation, status and protection: A case study from Rutherford Inlet, Western Port Bay, Victoria.
  • Andrew Rathjen 2003 BEnvSc Hons Thesis: Application of the catena concept to the deployment of the pasture GrassGro model.
  • Alison Capper 2003 BSc(Env) Hons Thesis: Time series orthophotomosaics: The scope for application in the search for the Mahogany Ship.
  • Nadiya Shatska 2003 BA Hons Thesis: Testing the potential of the digital spatial data infrastructure and remote sensing techniques for irrigation channel segmentation (a case study: Donald Main Channel in the area of the Lake Buloke).
  • Helen Campbell 2003 BA Hons Thesis: An investigation of relationships between the normalised difference vegetation index and key themes in south-eastern Australia using GIS
  • Vincent Grinter 2003 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS Project Title: GIS and the whole farm plan: prelude to adopting precision agriculture.
  • Daniel Lane 2003 Postgraduate Diploma in GIS Project Title: Documenting landfill and landscape transformation at Clayton Campus (Monash University) using time series method.
  • Margaret Guat Hee Ang 2003 BEnvSc Hons Thesis: Land use conflict in the City of Greater Dandenong: Lyndhurst landfill case study
  • Penelope Flanningan 2002 BA Hons Thesis: Alternative approaches to mapping Population density in urban areas: A case study from Metropolitan Melbourne.
  • Rebecca Keating 2002 BEnvSc Hons Thesis: Conservation of the Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) in Victoria: Scope for the deployment of spatial Habitat modelling.
  • Margaret Reynolds 2002 MA Thesis: Socio-spatial polarisation and the housing market in Melbourne: 1986-1996.
  • Kathlyn Poon 2002 MSc Thesis: Companion Animals in Monash City: A Spatial Pattern Analysis in Aid of Management.
  • Puatai Sim 2002 MA Thesis: Alternative Approaches to Mapping Impervious Surface Distribution in Suburban Catchments - A case study from Eastern Melbourne.
  • Edward Cheng 2002 B.Sc (Env) Hons Thesis: Testing the use of time series aerial photography for utility in coastal change monitoring.
  • Magdalene Bardis 2002 B.Sc Hons Thesis: Patterns of possum nuisance in Monash City: Scope of explanation, mitigation and accommodation revealed through spatial analysis.
  • Danielle McKeown 2002 B.Sc Hons Thesis: Is it worth a dam? The Victorian farm dams (irrigation) review committee report (2001) and the viticulture industry in the Yarra Valley.
  • Nicola Thomson 2001 Masters of Environmental Science, Team Research Project: "Cultivating a catchment community" - The project involves working with a Landcare group called the Merricks-Coolart Catchment Group with the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, Victoria.
  • Mark Rowntree 2001 BA Hons Thesis: History of vegetation and salinity change in the Upper Salt Water Creek Catchment, Phillip Island: Explanatory application of a time-series spatial database.
  • Will Yeates 2001 B.Sc Hons Thesis: Identification of inappropriately sited septic tanks in Woori Yallock Catchment, Victoria
  • Andrew Mullen 2001 B.Sc Hons Thesis: Victorian Pertussis Infection and Immunisation Records (1997-2000): Exploring the Geocodes in Analysis and Data Integration.
  • Lucy Lancellotti 2001 MA. Thesis: Early Neopalatial Palaikastro:Interpretations of Minoan Remains and Landscape.
  • Yen Min Lai 2000 B.Sc.Env Hons Thesis: Information evolution in keeping track of natural assets: A case study at Braeside Park, Braeside, Victoria.
  • Claire Curry 1999 Hons Thesis: The decommissioned Goldsworthy Mine, Western Australia : a case study in acid mine drainage remediation.
  • Wendy Stein 1999 Hons Thesis: Habitat Modeling (Wet Heathland) of Mastacomys fuscus (Broad-tooth Rat) in Kosciuszko National Park.
  • Belinda Dooley 1999 Hons Thesis: On Designing a Water Quality Monitoring Program: Exemplifications from the Upper Dandenong Creek Catchment
  • Karen Rapson 1999 Hons Thesis: Liveable cities & Gastroenteritis: Improving Waterborne Gastroenteritis Surveillance with GIS.
  • Louise Duell 1998 Hons Thesis: A time-series analysis of the relationship between landuse and groundwater nitrate content on the Nepean peninsula, Victoria.
  • Masud Kader 1998 MSc Thesis: Testing of terrain-based digital multi-flow modelling as a means of stream buffer delineation: Upper Barwon catchment.
  • Ian Allan 1996 MA. Thesis: Towards land use planning conflict resolution through spatially consistent participatory scenario modelling.
  • Armando A. Apan 1996 PhD. Thesis: Land resource survey and evaluation for tropical forest rehabilitation: approaches using satellite imagery and GIS.
  • Gang Jun Liu 1996 PhD Thesis: Derivation and testing of an integrated geospatial data handling approach to physically-based distributed hydrological modelling for application in dryland salinity mitigation and management. A cast study from the Eastern Wimmera, Victoria, Australia.
  • S. Sangawongse 1996 PhD Thesis: Landscape change detection in the Chiang Mai area: an appraisal from remote sensing, GIS and cartographic data developed for monitoring applications.
  • Lynette Peterson 1995 MA. Thesis: Reading the landscape: documentation and analysis of a relict feature of land degradation in the Bendigo district.
  • Ashwin Bhikaridas 1994 MSc. Thesis: Analysis of satellite remote sensing for mapping Adelie Penguin rookeries in Prydze Bay area, East Antarctica.
  • Sonya McKeown 1993 BA Hons Thesis: Waste disposal and landfill site selection for the South Eastern region of Melbourne.
  • Jason Beringer 1993 BSc Hons Thesis: The extent of 1992 Dry Season Biomass burning and associated atmospheric emissions in the Northern Territory, Australia.
  • Ian Allan 1992 BA Hons Thesis: The application of spatial data processing and land use conflict resolution in the Lal Lal Water Catchment of the Ballarat growth corridor; a case study from Chapter One of the Buninyong Planning Scheme.
  • A. McAllister 1990 BA Hons Thesis: Land degradation mapping in the Tragowel Plains irrigation area (T.P.I.A.): Testing image processing with thematic mapper data as a method for mapping soil salinisation patterns