Lukas is a PhD student from the University of Wollongong interested in remote sensing and vegetation ecology, investigating how standard visible spectrum camera imagery can help us map and model the moss and lichen communities of the Windmill Islands in the face of environmental change. His research seeks to investigate past changes in these communities through modern and archival imagery sources and utilise this wealth of data for ecological modelling to predict responses to future change and the development of informed conservation practices.

“Antarctica is a unique and beautiful continent whose stability is closely linked with that of the global environment” – Lukas Lis