GES Staff
Academic Staff
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Jason Beringer |
Land/atmosphere interactions, boundary layer climatology, micrometeorology, environmental GIS/remote sensing and global change. Detection of changes in the environment and vegetation and its influence on surface energy and trace gas exchanges and ecosystem processes, including changes in vegetation type, soil parameters, and land/water interfaces (+ Monash Atmospheric Science Program + Co-Leader Environmental Climatology Group) | 990 59352 |  |
| Rebekah Brown (Associate Professor) |
Environmental management; sustainable urban water management; organisational development and community capacity building | 990 59992 | |
| Lauren Costello (Lecturer) |
Cultural and feminist geography; politics of identity; difference and diversity; urban activism | 990 52937 | |
| David Dunkerley (Associate Professor) |
Fluvial environments and processes; hydrology and process geomorphology of arid regions; paramaterisation and numerical methods in geomorphology (+ Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Department of Civil Engineering) | 990 52914 | |
| Peter Kershaw (Professor) Director for Centre for Palynology & Palaeoecology |
Biogeography; palaeoecology; climate change and variability; history of vegetation, fire and human impact |
990 52927 | |
| Christian Kull (Senior Lecturer) |
Christian Kull (Senior Lecturer) Environment and development, cultural and political ecology, natural resource management, environmental history, Africa, Madagascar, and Indian Ocean rim (+ Honours Co-ordinator) | 990 52913 | |
| Stephen Legg (Senior Lecturer) |
Historical geography; regional history; environmental history; environmental management; economic development; forestry and farming; research focus is on 19th and early-20th century Australasia, including the diffusion of environmental knowledge, policy and practice throughout the British Empire and the New World | 990 52916 | |
| Prof. Amanda Lynch | Anticipated global climate change in response to the increase of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is the potential for rapid change (climate "surprises") and increased frequency of extreme events. | 990 58291 | |
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Ian McNiven |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology, post-colonial archaeology, frontier archaeology, coastal settlement and subsistence, seascapes, stone tool technology (+ Co-Director, Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology) | 990 58465 | |
| Bruce Missingham (Lecturer) |
Political anthropologist with research interests in environmental movements in Southeast Asia and minority groups in rural Australia (International Development & Environmental Analysis) | 990 59874 | |
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Jim Peterson |
Geomorphology; Quaternary studies; environmental thematic mapping and Geographical Information Systems |
990 52920 | |
| Sharron Pfueller (Senior Lecturer) |
Multistakeholder processes in environmental governance; community-based conservation and environmental monitoring: environment and health; environmental assessment and ecotourism | 990 54619 | |
| Joe Powell (Emeritus Professor) Australian Studies, American Studies |
Historical geography; studies in pioneer settlement, resource management and conservation in Australia, New Zealand, North America | 990 52914 | |
| Haripriya Rangan (Senior Lecturer) |
Political ecology of globalization and regional transformations and comparative analysis of institutions and natural resource management | 990 55300 | |
| Wendy Stubbs (Lecturer) |
Corporate social and environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business models | 990 9203 |
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| Elissa Sutherland (Lecturer) |
Geographies of labour, production and consumption, governance of labour markets, governance of ethical behaviours (clothing industry, corporate codes of conduct, labelling systems and ethical trade initiatives), critical analysis of solidarity networks and alternative economic formations | 990 58171 | |
| Nigel Tapper (Professor) |
Climatology; surface-atmosphere interactions; climate change and variability and impacts (including human health); urban climatology (Monash Atmospheric Sciences Program + Co-Leader Environmental Climatology Group) | 990 52931 | |
| Craig Thorburn (Senior Lecturer) |
Craig Thorburn (Senior Lecturer) Sustainable development, common property resource management, customary institutions and access rights, decentralisation and regional autonomy in Indonesia (International Development and Environmental Analysis) | 990 59319 | |
| Maryann Wulff (Associate Professor) |
Housing market trends and policy, urban and metropolitan development, population studies | 990 52930 | |
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Xuan Zhu |
Theory and techniques of geographical information science (GIS); GIS applications in environmental management, land use planning, business and service planning; decision support systems for regional sustainable development; environmental decision analysis and modelling; land use analysis and modelling; remote sensing of the environment; GIS in Schools (+Director, Centre for Geographical Information Systems) | 990 20056 | |
Research Staff
| Diana Arbeláez-Ruiz (Research Analyst) |
Corporate social responsibility; corporate social and environmental risk assessment tools; sustainability reporting and investment; market based instruments for environmental policy/regulation | 990 54616 |
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| Josephine Brown (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) |
Modelling atmosphere, ocean and land surface with global and regional models, palaeoclimate modelling and reconstruction, climate change, tropical climate variability including monsoons and ENSO |
990 20110 | |
| Bruno David (QE2 Fellow) |
Archaeology: Australian Aboriginal archaeology; archaeology of rock art; archaeology of cultural landscape; patterns of change and continuity in the Aboriginal past; temporal and regional scale in archaeological research; the use of ethnography and analogy in archaeology; archaeology of the Pacific region and Torres Strait archaeology (+ Co-Director, Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology) | 990 52938 | |
| Serena de Kretser (Research Fellow) |
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990 59890 |
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Tim Denham |
Understanding how agricultural practices may have arisen from pre-existing forms of plant exploitation, most likely during the early-to-mid Holocene, on the island of New Guinea. | 990 20109 | |
Jacqui Dibden |
Social anthropologist with research interests in rural social change in Australia and Indonesia, including the social and economic impacts of rural restructuring and regulatory change, and rural activism |
990 52162 | |
Chris Fayers |
Corporate environmental and social reporting, corporate social responsibility, and socially responsible investment |
990 55445 |
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Alison George (Research Fellow) |
Corporate sustainability strategy, risk management, and reporting; link between sustainability and financial performance; methods for quantification of environmental, social, and governance risk and performance |
990 55994 |
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| Doug Holmes (Senior Research Fellow) |
Sustainability and finance; business and sustainability; corporate environmental strategy; organisational/cultural change; environmental reporting; socially-responsible investment |
990 552043 | |
| Angelina Lee (Research Analyst) |
Business and sustainability with focus on environmental governance including sustainability reporting, energy and climate change, and development and application of corporate environmental risk assessment tools | 990 58406 | |
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Prof. Amanda Lynch |
Anticipated global climate change in response to the increase of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is the potential for rapid change (climate "surprises") and increased frequency of extreme events. |
990 58291 |
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| Merna McKenzie (Research Associate) |
Biogeography; palynology; vegetation and environmental history | 990 55299 | |
| Neville Nicholls (Professorial Fellow) |
How climate variations and change affect the environment, the economy and people (especially their health), and how to predict these variations. | 990 20111 | |
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Graeme Pearman |
Climate change science, the interface with public and private sector policy development (risk and vulnerability assessment, role of scientific uncertainty), the impact of options for energy futures and the application of sustainability science. Science capacity building in the developing world with respect to global environmental change. | 990 52350 | |
Paul Rogers (Research Fellow) |
Political ecology of rural development, particularly in the context of Indonesia; smallholder tree crop development; corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental and social governance assessment; socially responsible investment; sustainable development finance |
990 52249 |
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| Petteri Uotila (Research Assistant) |
Air-ice-ocean boundary layer, coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling, sea-ice rheology, and distributed computing and databases | 990 52269 | |
Professional Staff
| School Manager | Heather Fletcher | 990 52941 | |
| HR & Research Admininstration | Kerrie Cake | 990 58127 | |
| Professional Officer GIS & IT | Shobhit Chandra | 990 59246 | |
| Finance Administrative Officer | Jean Newey | 990 52929 | |
| Laboratory Manager | Ursula Pietrzak | 990 51427 | |
| Post Graduate Administrative Officer | Bianca Roggenbucke | 990 54624 | |
| Photographer/Multimedia | Kara Rasmanis | 990 52924 | |
| Webmaster | Phil Scamp | 990 52924 | |
| Workshop & Field Technician | David Tooth | 990 52917 | |
| Undergraduate Officer/ Assistant to the Head | Sharon Harvey | 990 20398 | |