Postgraduate Students 2010 - Research Topics & Supervisors

Master of Arts

Name

Research topic

Supervisors

Sultana Nasrin Baby

Visualisation of the Philip Island parks wildlife habitats with special reference to the little penguin: a new basis for decision support in resource management

Jim Peterson, Shobhit Chandra,Xuan Zhu

Katie Brookes

The role of the urban land development organisation in mainstreaming water sensitive urban design

Rebekah Brown, Megan Farrelly, Peter Morison.

Master of Science

Name

Research topic

Supervisors

Mark Thomson

Institutional aspects of integrated water resource management/environmental transboundary security

Craig Thorburn, Christian Kull, David Dunkerley

Master of Environmental Science

Name

Research topic

Supervisors

Naomi Blackburn

Policy opportunities to support voluntary adoption of water sensitive urban design practices in private space

Rebekah Brown, Megan Farrelly

Donald Coventry

The effect of the peaking of the world oil and gas supply upon regional and rural communities in Australia

Bruce Missingham, Vaughan Higgins

Praveena Rajkobal

Citizen engagement in environmental governance

Jacqui Dibden,  Christian Kull

Shalini Samuel

An international sporting event such as the Beijing Olympics 2008 as a catalyst for air pollution control solutions and long term political commitment to environmental protection

Wendy Stubbs, Megan Farrelly

PhD

Name

Research topic

Supervisors

Reza Amiri

Integration of hyperspectral and LiDAR data for vegetation parameter estimation

Jason Beringer, Peter Isaac

Jeremy Ash

Archaeology of Totalai, Mua, Torres Strait

Ian McNiven, Bruno David

Sheahan Bestel

An archaeobotanical analysis of the Yiluo Basin area of north China: subsistence change and social transformation from 8,500 - 3,500 BP (the Peiligang to Erlitou periods)

Tim Denham, Judith Field, Li Liu

Yvette Bettini

Processes and pathways to achieving water sensitive cities: a case study of Perth, Western Australia

Rebekah Brown, Megan Farrelly

Annette Bos

Sustainable Urban Water Management: An assessment of translating a governance transition experiment into practice.

Rebekah Brown, Megan Farrelly, Tony Wong

Jonathan Brown

The application of sedimentary analysis to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, in a study of Caladonia Fen, in the Bennison plains Eastern Victoria

Peter Kershaw, Meredith Orr

Peter Cabena

The Bishnoi Community of India - A study of traditional environmental ethics and practice

Christian Kull, Priya Rangan

Michelle D'Amico

A climatological study of mesoscale cyclones over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean using AVHRR satellite imagery, NCEP, ERA-40 and ERA-Interim reanalysis datasets from 30-90 degrees south, and the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS)

Amanda Lynch, Neville Nichols, Petteri Uotila

Fabrizio D'Aprile

Effects of climate change on Silver Fir (Abies alba Mill) growth in the Tuscan Apennine Alps (Middle Italy)

Nigel Tapper, Patrick Baker (ANU)

Nadine D'Argent

Climatic and bioclimatic assessment of the compact city - A case study of "Melbourne 2030"

Jason Beringer, Nigel Tapper

Lisa Elford

HIV/AIDS and Refugees: Impact of a Rights Based Approach

Priya Rangan, Craig Thorburn, Beatrice Loff

Briony Ferguson

Analysis of the socio-economic adaptions required for the realisation of a water sensitive city: Melbourne as a case study

Rebekah Brown, Ana Deletic

Md Mahfuzul Haque

Impacts of relative sea level rise on the coastal areas of Bangladesh: detection, projection and vulnerability assessment

Xuan Zhu, Jim Peterson, Amanda Lynch

Carol Hensley

Modelling evapotranspiration using remote sensing in the savanna of northern Australia

Jason Beringer, Peter Isaac, Marc Leblanc (JCU)

Rochelle Johnston 

Multi-proxy evidence for the glacial/Holocene transition, Tower Hill, Victoria.

Peter Kershaw, John Grindrod

Kenichi Kurioka

The effect of change in climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on the carbon cycle of Mountain Ash forests.

Jason Beringer, Lindsay Hutley (CDU)

Lucia Lancellotti

Archaeological landscapes in a changing environment: west central Sardinia from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period.

Jim Peterson,  Peter Kershaw

Tara Lewis

Late Holocene vegetation dynamics of Western Victoria with application to landscape conservation and restoration.

Peter Kershaw, Heather Builth, Nicholas Porch (ANU)

Michael McBain

Measuring and modelling loong-term vegetation change using remote sensing, Marko chain modelling and Bayesian methods

Jim Peterson, Shobhit Chandra

Ian McHugh

Interactions between fire regime and carbon and water dynamics in alpine ecosystems: Impacts and implications of a changing climate

Jason Beringer, Nigel Tapper, Mark Adams

John Pearce

Air quality, climate change and human health in Melbourne, Australia

Jason Beringer, Nigel Tapper, Neville Nicholls

Thi Hong Thu Phan

The Melbourne Metropolitan Area urban form changes since the implementation of compact city: A Geographical Analysis

Jim Peterson, Shobhit Chandra

SeyedHossein Pourali

Data integration into decision support for catchment management: The merits of adopting a high resolution approach with special reference to remotely sensed time series data sets

Ian Cartwright, Jim Peterson, Xuan Zhu

Mulyono R. Prabowo

Onset And Retreat Of The Monsoon Over Indonesia

Nigel Tapper & John McBride

Thomas Richards

The archaeology of transegalitarian hunter-gatherers: a case study from South Western Victoria, Australia

Ian McNiven, Tim Denham and Bruno David

Paul Rogers

Agribusiness and rural development in Indonesia.

Priya Rangan

Carolina Roman

Characterising climate change vulnerabilities and implications for adaptation strategies in Alpine Regions - A case study of the tourism and recreation industries in Alpine Shire and Victorian Alps, Victoria

Amanda Lynch, Neville Nicholls, Dale Dominey-Howes (UNSW)

Susan Rule

Annual to Decadal Perspective on Tropical Climate Variability from the Last Glacial to the Present: Lynch's Crater, Northeast Queensland, Australia

Peter Kershaw, Simon Haberle, (ANU) and Chris Turney (Univ. of Wollongong)

Radhika Savant-Mohit

Understanding connections to place and a sense of belonging through the experiences of transnational Indian migrants in Melbourne

Lauren Costello

Robert Skelly

Historicising the hiri: Ceramic Trade in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea

Bruno David, Ian McNiven

Suaydhi

Quantification of rainfall over the Indonesian Maritime Continent under present and future climate condition

Nigel Tapper, Christian Jakob

Susan van de Meene

Development of a Guiding Framework for Sustainable Urban Water Governance.

Rebekah Brown, Chris Cocklin (JCU), Megan Farrelly

Chris Wendt

Impact of savanna fires on heat, moisture and carbon dioxide fluxes to the atmosphere and feedbacks to local and regional climate.

Nigel Tapper, Jason Beringer, Lindsay Hutley, (CDU)

Peter Wheeler

Spatial Decision Support for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Victoria: Constraints and Opportunities

Jim Peterson, Stephen Legg, Xuan Zhu

Chris White

Climate change and environmental response in southwestern Victoria: a palaeoecological record from Lake Surprise, Western Plains of Victoria

Peter Kershaw, Meredith Orr,  Heather Builth

Stephen Wood

Patterns and processes of carbon and water budgets across Northern Australian landscapes

Jason Beringer, Nigel Tapper, Lindsay Hutley, (CDU)

Zhenyu Zhang

Catchment vegetation change detection and monitoring: improvement in theory and practice through fusion of multi-temporal imagery and Lidar data

Jim Peterson, Xuan Zhu, Wendy Wright