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Melodie’s research focuses on the ecology and conservation of populations and communities. Her interests extend from quantifying and modeling the abundance ..... Read more here 

Among the major contributions from this work was a new method to predict the geometric effects of subdivision based on spatial sampling theory..... Read more here

David’s research focuses on understanding the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity. This work has included assessing the potential impacts of climate change across protected area networks, evaluating the efficacy .... Read more here 

Cath’s PhD research continues her passion of working to increase our knowledge about threatened species and their associated threatening processes to enable appropriate conservation management.  Cath will focus on the critically endangered Azorella macquariensis, an endemic ....

                                                Sarah’s PhD research is on what drives biodiversity patterns and interactions across multiple trophic levels, and what this means for ecosystem multifunctionality. She will examine the relationships between native and invasive plant species ... Read more here 

David is working on employing a biodiversity informatics approach to provide an improved spatio-temporal characterization of the status and trends in Antarctic biodiversity .... Read more here 

Saxbee is a graduate of Monash University’s Bachelor of Science Advanced – Global Challenges in ecology and conservation biology. He received first class honours for investigating the potential threat environmental arsenic contamination poses to Australian marsupial populations. - Read more here

Stewart completed a Bachelor of Environment Science (Wildlife and Conservation Biology) at Deakin University in 2018, participating in exchange and internship programs to both Mahidol University in Thailand and the University of International Business and Economics in China. During this time .... Read more