After graduating from UQ with first-class honours and a double-degree in electrical engineering and physics, I worked for a year at Helimods, where we customised helicopters and small aircraft for special missions. During this period, I most enjoyed automating tasks, and as I am passionate about preserving the environment, I was looking for a PhD…
Tace is a PhD student at QUT. Her background is in applied mathematics and operations research, with a focus on ecological applications. Her PhD will be on the value of information when conserving biodiversity in Antarctica. “The health of Antarctica is vital to support our own health.” — Tace Stewart
Rachel is a community ecologist, with an interest in understanding spatial and temporal biodiversity patterns to support conservation and management decisions. Her PhD at Monash University investigated the effect of human activities on the wilderness and biodiversity value of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic ecosystems. A current focus of her work is modelling biodiversity values and threats…
Maria is a game theorist with the focus on strategic decision making in groups, especially, in the presence of inequality. Previously, her research was focused on understanding how interplay of inequality and other mechanisms (such as information, decision-making policies, etc) affect the evolution of social behaviour. Now, Maria is interested in how to make better…
My name is Arjun Sembey and I am a primary school student. For our school public speaking competition, I chose to speak about Antarctica as I was really intrigued by Antarctica and how it is so far away and yet manages to affect the climate of the whole world. My speech was highly appreciated by…
Sarika is a PhD student at Queensland University of Technology whose research interests involve the application of mathematical modelling techniques to ecological questions. Under the supervision of Professor Michael Bode and Dr Matthew Adams, she is working on the mathematical modelling of regime shifts in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions. She aims to collect data…
Jo Burrows is a research degree candidate at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) supervised by Professors Kerrie Wilson and Michael Bode, with interests in conservation policy, environmental management, and social-ecological systems. Her current research investigates science and policy approaches for ensuring Antarctic Specially Protected Areas are effective as conservation interventions. Through this work, she…
Zhao is a Master’s student with a keen interest in using quantitative methods, including spatial modelling and spatial prioritisation methods, to understand how biodiversity have been surveyed in the past and how people can smartly collect more biodiversity data for future study and conservation actions. He worked on a project in Southwest China that aimed…
Bao is a PhD student in Applied Statistics. Her research explores the use of new statistical techniques, such as particle Markov chain Monte Carlo, to estimate the unobservable parameters in ice sheet models. Bao aims to improve forecasts of the contribution to sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet. She is excited to be…
Anaïs is a PhD student at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resource Studies at the University of Wollongong. Her research will focus on the international ocean governance framework in the context of climate change. It will analyse the synergies among United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Convention on Biological Diversity,…
Valeria is a behavioural ecologist and marine scientist, interested in the interdependence of social science and environmental conservation. By exploring the resilience of socio-ecological systems and their current governance, she aims to assist decision-makers to sustainably manage Antarctica’s Cultural Ecosystem Services. If we find a way to work collaboratively and effectively in such a complex…
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