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Jason Beringer
(Associate Professor)
Land/Atmosphere interactions, Climatology, GIS/Remote Sensing & Global Change 990 59352
Rebekah Brown
(Associate Professor)
Environmental management; sustainable urban water management; organisational development and community capacity building 990 59992
Lauren Costello
(Lecturer)
Cultural Geography, Geographies of Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality 990 52937
David Dunkerley
(Associate Professor)
Fluvial Environments, Hydrology, Geomorphology 990 52914
Peter Kershaw
(Professor) Director for Centre for Palynology & Palaeoecology
Biogeography, palynology and the history of vegetation, climate and human-environment interactions in the Australasian-Southeast Asian region 990 52927
Christian Kull
(Senior Lecturer)
Environment and development, cultural and political ecology, landscape burning, community-based resource management, environmental history, Africa and Madagascar 990 52913
Stephen Legg
(Senior Lecturer)
Historical Geography, Regional History 990 52916
Ian McNiven
(Reader)
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
Bette O'Brien
(Senior Lecturer, Director, Regional and Urban Planning Program)
Strategic, statutory and spatial planning, Economic development, Sustainable communities, Planning communication and qualitative research, Affordable housing, Retirement villages, Population ageing, Cultural diversity and Community safety and crime prevention

 

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Jim Peterson
(Associate Professor) Director, Centre for GIS
Geomorphology; Quaternary studies; environmental thematic mapping and Geographical Information Systems (+ Director, Centre for Geographical Information Systems). 990 52920
Sharron Pfueller
(Senior Lecturer)
Community participation in environmental management and monitoring; environment and health; community education; 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
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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) Director, Monash Environment Institute
Climatology; surface-atmosphere interactions; climate change and variability; air pollution climatology and effects (+ Deputy Director Monash Environment Institute; + Member Centre for Dynamical Meteorology & Oceanography, Department of Applied Mathematics; + Co-ordinator Monash Atmospheric Sciences Program; Climatology Group) 990 52931
Craig Thorburn
(Senior Lecturer)
Community development, management of common-property resources, customary rights, decentralization, and regional governance in Indonesia (International Development & Environmental Analysis) 990 59319
Maryann Wulff
(Associate Professor)
Housing market trends and policy, urban and metropolitan development, population studies 990 52930
Xuan Zhu
(Senior Lecturer)
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 990 20056

Research Staff

Climatology Group
Prof. Amanda Lynch
(Federation Fellow)
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
Neville Nicholls
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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
Lisa Alexander
(Research Assistant)
How climate extremes on both regional and global scales are changing and how well climate models are able to simulate these changes. 990 558415
Graeme Pearman
(Honorary Research Fellow)
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
Petteri Uotila
(Research Assistant)
Air-ice-ocean boundary layer, coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling, sea-ice rheology, and distributed computing and databases 990 52269
Josephine Brown
(
Postdoctoral Research Fellow)
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Centre for Australian Indigenous Archaeology
Tim Denham
( Research Fellow)
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
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
Heather Builth
( ARC
Linkage Fellow)
Australian Indigenous archaeology, GIS, and landscape analysis of southwestern Victoria.  
Centre for Geographical Information Systems
Margaret Reynolds
(Research Fellow)
Social applications of GIS, housing market dynamics, urban development and geodemographics 990 52963
Shobhit Chandra
(Professional Officer GIS)
Applications of GIS, for Natural Resources and Environmental Management 990 59246
Centre for Palynology and Palaeoecology
Merna McKenzie
(Research Associate)
Biogeography; palynology; vegetation and environmental history 990 55299
Barbara Wagstaff
(Research Associate)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic biostratigraphy 990 55299
Monash Centre for Environmental Management / Monash Sustainability Enterprises
Doug Holmes
(Senior Research Fellow)
Sustainability and finance; business and sustainability; corporate environmental strategy; organisational/cultural change; environmental reporting; socially-responsible investment; (+Director, Monash Centre for Environmental Management; Director, Monash Sustainability Enterprises) 990 552043
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
Chris Fayers
(Research Analyst)
Corporate environmental and social reporting, corporate social responsibility, and socially responsible investment 990 55445
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
Julian Scarff
(Research Analyst)
Social and environmental governance; corporate social and environmental accountability; corporate social and environmental risk assessment tools; sustainability reporting and investment 990 59202
Honorary Research Associates
Garrick Hitchcock,
(Research Associate)
Social anthropologist with research interests in Melanesia, Torres Strait and Aboriginal Australia; political ecology of Indigenous land- and seascapes; native title; cultural heritage  
Sue Carswell
(Research Fellow)
Social Anthropologist with research interests in migration and transnational communities in rural Australia, gender and familial relations, family violence and youth justice    
Monash Regional Australia Project
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

General Staff

HR & Research Admininstration Sue Drummond 990 58127
Professional Officer GIS & IT Shobhit Chandra 990 59246
Finance Administrative Officer Jean Newey 990 52929
Laboratory Technician Ursula Pietrzak 990 51427
Post Graduate Administrative Officer Bianca Roggenbucke 990 54624
Webmaster Phil Scamp 990 52924
Cartography, Map Library & Publications Gary Swinton 990 52922
Workshop & Field Technician David Tooth 990 52917
Undergraduate Administrative Officer Maureen Upston 990 52910

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