Our people

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    A/Prof. Chris Roelfsema

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    My projects focus on combining field and remote sensing based data to map and monitor coastal ecosystems over time and space, from local to global.

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    Dr Dylan Cowley

    RESEARCH FELLOW

    CURRENT PROJECT:

    Developing capability to assess live coral cover and seagrass species using satellite based hyperspectral imagery.

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    Dr. Nicholas Hammerman

    RESEARCH FELLOW

    Working to enable a greater understanding of how, and where coral and seagrass grows, how to continue to monitor these ecosystems, and the factors that impact their resilience, and for seagrass, their carbon sequestration potential.

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    Kirsten Golding

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

    Kirsten is a research assistant within the Marine Ecosystems Monitoring Lab focusing on coral and seagrass mapping and monitoring at Heron Island and within Quandamooka Sea Country (Moreton Bay). Her research background is in coral reef ecology, turbid reef communities and photogrammetry.

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    Joanna Smart

    PhD STUDENT

    My PhD research explores how hyperspectral remote sensing technology can be utilised to improve the monitoring of coral reef and seagrass ecosystems

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    Muhammad Hafizt

    PhD STUDENT

    PhD student developing a spatial model to estimate seagrass carbon stock in Indonesia using remote sensing technology

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    Maria Kottermair

    PhD STUDENT

    3D Shoreline Changes of Atoll Islands in Micronesia.

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    David Carrasco

    PhD STUDENT/STAFF

    I am currently working on my PhD that is part of a project that is aiming to create an online tool that allows environmental managers to monitor water quality in areas of coral reefs around the world.

  • Atefeh Sansoleimani

    PhD STUDENT

  • Gillian Rowan

    PhD STUDENT

    PhD student developing new tools and data to facilitate kelp biomass mapping, from the single forest level to the continental Australian coastline.

  • Tiny Remmers

    PhD STUDENT

  • Faye Diederiks

    MASTERS STUDENT / STAFF

    My current project is analysing benthic ecological change over time and space, and the implications for coral carbonate production. 

Associates

Eva Kovacs

Joshua Passenger