Eliza previously worked as a nuclear scientist with the environmental group at ANSTO, where she researched the chemistry of Antarctic lakes. Although monitoring has occurred since the late 1970s, datasets remain sparse particularly those using isotopic tracers. Eliza is undertaking a PhD with ANSTO and UOW to develop spatial and temporal trends in trace element…
Joshna Baskar completed a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Environmental Science, at Monash University in December 2023. Throughout 2023, Joshna volunteered at SAEF, inspired by a lecture series by Professor Steven Chown that emphasised the urgency of action towards climate change and biodiversity loss. She assisted in extracting location information from Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)…
Dr Mardi McNeil is an Earth scientist who maps and characterises Australia’s seafloor environments to support evidence-based management of marine natural assets. Managing Australia’s unique environment doesn’t end at the coastline. As a marine geoscientist at Geoscience Australia, Mardi works with bathymetry maps and seabed rock and sediment information to advise government, industry and academic…
Zhaoyang is a PhD Candidate at Monash University who is interested in the precipitation processes over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica. His research topic is currently focused on the precipitation trends at Macquarie Island.
Pirunthan Keerthinathan holds a PhD from the QUT Centre for Robotics, with specialisation in remote sensing and machine learning. His research focuses on vegetation detection through semantic segmentation using drone and satellite imagery, with experience in multispectral, hyperspectral, and LiDAR data. As part of SAEF, he will contribute to advancing automated vegetation mapping techniques in…
Daniel is a glaciologist who engages in computational research of ice-sheet and ice-ocean interaction behaviour. I am primarily interested in understanding current and near-future behaviour of Antarctic ice streams and making use of novel methods in ice-dynamical simulation, ice-ocean coupling, and assimilation of satellite-based data into ice-sheet models in order to improve reliability of projections…
Rob’s research addresses the causes and pace of polar ice-sheet change, and the contributions of polar ice sheets to global sea levels. Presently he is leading initiatives to acquire new geophysical data across West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier (International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration) and to build a 3-D age-depth model across Antarctica from the internal stratigraphy sounded by ice-penetrating radar (AntArchitecture)….
Sreenath is a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University, dedicated to advancing the understanding of convective cloud systems over the Southern Ocean. As part of the Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF) project, his research focuses on the dynamics of open and closed mesoscale convective clouds. Sreenath is exploring their interactions with atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics,…
Daniela is a PhD candidate within the Paleoclimate and Environment Research Laboratory, Environmental Futures, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Life Sciences, UOW, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Master’s degree in Marine Science and Management. She is dedicated to researching the effects of human activities on marine environments, with a particular emphasis…
Julia D’Agostino is a Research Assistant at Monash University. In 2025, she completed her Honours year, working with Dr Richard Jones to investigate the role of geomorphology in shaping Antarctic microbial ecosystems in periglacial soils. In 2026, she is aspiring to start a PhD project and is in the middle of identify the right project….
Amelia is an honours student supervised by Dr Ariaan Purich and Dr Felicity McCormack at Monash University. She is interested in broad scale climate variability, understanding interactions between the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Southern Ocean as well as improving model projections of polar regions. Her project will use a large ensemble of CMIP6 models…
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