Biodiversity

  • Mehrdad Amirghasemi

    Mehrdad is a Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong (UOW). His primary research focus is the design and analysis of metaheuristic analytics methods, along with their application in operations research, supply chains, network design, and social media. His research on these methods has already been published…

  • Sophie Allen

    Sophie is a lab assistant at Monash University based in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment. She is a Monash University student, shortly to graduate with a Bachelor of Science majoring in geology. Sophie is working on the Vanderford Glacier project and is supporting the team to process the rock samples collected from the…

  • Kita Williams

    Kita is a PhD student researching ecological interactions in terrestrial ecosystems of the sub-Antarctic islands. She is interested in the unique environments and invertebrate biodiversity of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, biosecurity, and conservation under climate change. Kita’s background is in marine biology, having previously studied the cell biology of juvenile marine sponges. She enjoys microscopy…

  • Matthias Dehling

    Matthias is a community ecologist with interests in macroecology and ecological networks. He has worked on methods for characterizing the functional roles of species in ecological processes, combining data from interaction networks and functional traits, as well as on methods to describe large-scale patterns of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity. A current focus of Matthias’s…

  • Krystal Randall

    Krystal is a biologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wollongong. She is interested in understanding how climate change and extreme events are experienced by Antarctica’s plant life. Her research combines spatial biology, process-based spatio-temporal microclimate modelling, plant physiology and field-based monitoring to understand drivers of change in Antarctic plant communities. Krystal is also…

  • Justine Shaw

    Associate Professor Justine Shaw is a conservation scientist, who works on the ecology and management of Antarctic and island ecosystems. Her research focuses on the interface of policy, governance and ecosystem science and aims to inform and improve environmental protection and conservation decision-making for species. Antarctic and sub-Antarctic island ecosystems remain the last true wilderness…

  • Steph Gardner

    Steph’s research interests span tropical and temperate reef ecosystems, particularly in the fields of microbial ecology, physiology and biochemistry. Within SAEF, her work will focus on understanding and describing benthic microbial communities and she is excited to collaborate and contribute to delivering SAEF’s goals. Despite a cold-weather intolerance, Steph has been drawn to Antarctica during…

  • John Turnbull

    John is a marine and coastal ecologist with a prior background in social research, business, IT and engineering. His research interests include social-ecological systems, marine protected areas and environmental stewardship.

  • Sally Lau

    Sally is a postdoctoral researcher at James Cook University. Her current project investigates the ecology and evolution of Southern Ocean marine invertebrates using genetic techniques. She is passionate in supporting other early career researchers within SAEF by ensuring their views and interests are represented.   

  • Jasmine Lee

    Jasmine is a DECRA Research Fellow at Monash University. She spent the previous three years as an 1851 Research Fellow in the Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation team at the British Antarctic Survey. She is a conservation scientist and her research focuses on understanding how terrestrial biodiversity will be impacted by threatening processes (e.g. climate change,…