Research discipline: Sustainable Environments
Research program: Ecology

Large areas of Australia are experiencing sustained anthropogenic pressure, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. I am passionate about protecting our ecosystems and biodiversity through the use of interdisciplinary and innovative technological approaches in ecological research. I have a particular interest in using ecoacoustic innovations to monitor changes in ecosystem health and impacts on biodiversity.

I am a level 3 Mentoring Postgraduate Supervisor and current student projects in my research group include:

• Evolution of intra and intersexual signalling in two frog species, Litoria wilcoxii and Litoria jungguy
• Acoustic signalling and subspecies divergence in two Australasian treecreeper species (Climacteris picumnus and Cormobates leucophaea).
• Evaluation of faunal biodiversity in urban restoration
• Conservation biology of threatened native olives (genus Notelaea) in southern Queensland
• Using ecoacoustic monitoring to monitor biodiversity and guide urban development in peri-urban settings
• An examination of the influence of landscape structure on insectivorous bats and birds in cotton