GES Staff
Academic Staff
| Jason Beringer (Associate Professor) |
Land/atmosphere interactions, boundary layer climatology, micrometeorology, environmental GIS/remote sensing and global change. Detection of changes in the environment and vegetation and its influence on surface energy and trace gas exchanges and ecosystem processes, including changes in vegetation type, soil parameters, and land/water interfaces (+ Monash Atmospheric Science Program + Co-Leader Environmental Climatology Group) | 990 59352 |  |
| Rebekah Brown (Associate Professor) |
Environmental management; sustainable urban water management; organisational development and community capacity building | 990 59992 | |
| Lauren Costello (Lecturer) |
Cultural and feminist geography; politics of identity; difference and diversity; urban activism | 990 52937 | |
| David Dunkerley (Associate Professor) |
Fluvial environments and processes; hydrology and process geomorphology of arid regions; paramaterisation and numerical methods in geomorphology (+ Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Department of Civil Engineering) | 990 52914 | |
| Peter Kershaw (Professor) Director for Centre for Palynology & Palaeoecology |
Biogeography; palaeoecology; climate change and variability; history of vegetation, fire and human impact | 990 52927 | |
| Christian Kull (Senior Lecturer) |
Christian Kull (Senior Lecturer) Environment and development, cultural and political ecology, natural resource management, environmental history, Africa, Madagascar, and Indian Ocean rim (+ Honours Co-ordinator) | 990 52913 | |
| Stephen Legg (Senior Lecturer) |
Historical geography; regional history; environmental history; environmental management; economic development; forestry and farming; research focus is on 19th and early-20th century Australasia, including the diffusion of environmental knowledge, policy and practice throughout the British Empire and the New World | 990 52916 | |
| Ian McNiven (Reader) |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander archaeology, post-colonial archaeology, frontier archaeology, coastal settlement and subsistence, seascapes, stone tool technology (+ Co-Director, Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology) | 990 58465 | |
| Bruce Missingham (Lecturer) |
Political anthropologist with research interests in environmental movements in Southeast Asia and minority groups in rural Australia (International Development & Environmental Analysis) | 990 59874 | |
| Bette O'Brien (Senior Lecturer, Director, Regional and Urban Planning Program) |
Strategic, statutory and spatial planning, Economic development, Sustainable communities, Planning communication and qualitative research, Affordable housing, Retirement villages, Population ageing, Cultural diversity and Community safety and crime prevention
(+ Director, Regional and Urban Planning Program)
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990 47428 |
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| Jim Peterson (Associate Professor) Director, Centre for GIS |
Geomorphology; Quaternary studies; environmental thematic mapping and Geographical Information Systems | 990 52920 | |
| Sharron Pfueller (Senior Lecturer) |
Multistakeholder processes in environmental governance; community-based conservation and environmental monitoring: environment and health; environmental assessment and ecotourism | 990 54619 | |
| Joe Powell (Emeritus Professor) Australian Studies, American Studies |
Historical geography; studies in pioneer settlement, resource management and conservation in Australia, New Zealand, North America | 990 52914 | |
| Haripriya Rangan (Senior Lecturer) |
Political ecology of globalization and regional transformations and comparative analysis of institutions and natural resource management | 990 55300 | |
| Wendy Stubbs (Lecturer) |
Corporate social and environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business models | 990 9203 |
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| Elissa Sutherland (Lecturer) |
Geographies of labour, production and consumption, governance of labour markets, governance of ethical behaviours (clothing industry, corporate codes of conduct, labelling systems and ethical trade initiatives), critical analysis of solidarity networks and alternative economic formations | 990 58171 | |
| Nigel Tapper (Professor, Head of School) |
Climatology; surface-atmosphere interactions; climate change and variability and impacts (including human health); urban climatology (Monash Atmospheric Sciences Program + Co-Leader Environmental Climatology Group) | 990 52931 | |
| Craig Thorburn (Senior Lecturer) |
Craig Thorburn (Senior Lecturer) Sustainable development, common property resource management, customary institutions and access rights, decentralisation and regional autonomy in Indonesia (International Development and Environmental Analysis) | 990 59319 | |
| Maryann Wulff (Associate Professor) |
Housing market trends and policy, urban and metropolitan development, population studies | 990 52930 | |
| Xuan Zhu (Senior Lecturer) |
Theory and techniques of geographical information science (GIS); GIS applications in environmental management, land use planning, business and service planning; decision support systems for regional sustainable development; environmental decision analysis and modelling; land use analysis and modelling; remote sensing of the environment; GIS in Schools (+Director, Centre for Geographical Information Systems) | 990 20056 | |
Research Staff
| Climatology Group | |||
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| Prof. Amanda Lynch (Federation Fellow) |
Anticipated global climate change in response to the increase of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is the potential for rapid change (climate "surprises") and increased frequency of extreme events. | 990 58291 | |
| Neville Nicholls (Professorial Fellow) |
How climate variations and change affect the environment, the economy and people (especially their health), and how to predict these variations. | 990 20111 | |
| Lisa Alexander (Research Assistant) |
How climate extremes on both regional and global scales are changing and how well climate models are able to simulate these changes. | 990 558415 | |
| Graeme Pearman (Honorary Research Fellow) |
Climate change science, the interface with public and private sector policy development (risk and vulnerability assessment, role of scientific uncertainty), the impact of options for energy futures and the application of sustainability science. Science capacity building in the developing world with respect to global environmental change. | 990 52350 | |
| Petteri Uotila (Research Assistant) |
Air-ice-ocean boundary layer, coupled atmosphere-ocean modelling, sea-ice rheology, and distributed computing and databases | 990 52269 | |
| Josephine Brown (Postdoctoral Research Fellow) |
990 20110 | |
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| Centre for Australian Indigenous Archaeology | |||
| Tim Denham ( Research Fellow) |
Understanding how agricultural practices may have arisen from pre-existing forms of plant exploitation, most likely during the early-to-mid Holocene, on the island of New Guinea. | 990 20109 | |
| Bruno David (QE2 Fellow) |
Archaeology: Australian Aboriginal archaeology; archaeology of rock art; archaeology of cultural landscape; patterns of change and continuity in the Aboriginal past; temporal and regional scale in archaeological research; the use of ethnography and analogy in archaeology; archaeology of the Pacific region and Torres Strait archaeology (+ Co-Director, Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology) | 990 52938 | |
| Heather Builth ( ARC Linkage Fellow) |
Australian Indigenous archaeology, GIS, and landscape analysis of southwestern Victoria. | |
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| Centre for Geographical Information Systems | |||
| Margaret Reynolds (Research Fellow) |
Social applications of GIS, housing market dynamics, urban development and geodemographics | 990 52963 | |
| Shobhit Chandra (Professional Officer GIS) |
Applications of GIS, for Natural Resources and Environmental Management | 990 59246 | |
| Centre for Palynology and Palaeoecology | |||
| Merna McKenzie (Research Associate) |
Biogeography; palynology; vegetation and environmental history | 990 55299 | |
| Barbara Wagstaff (Research Associate) |
Mesozoic and Cenozoic biostratigraphy | 990 55299 | |
| Monash Centre for Environmental Management / Monash Sustainability Enterprises | |||
| Doug Holmes (Senior Research Fellow) |
Sustainability and finance; business and sustainability; corporate environmental strategy; organisational/cultural change; environmental reporting; socially-responsible investment; (+Director, Monash Centre for Environmental Management; Director, Monash Sustainability Enterprises) | 990 552043 | |
| Diana Arbeláez-Ruiz (Research Analyst) |
Corporate social responsibility; corporate social and environmental risk assessment tools; sustainability reporting and investment; market based instruments for environmental policy/regulation | 990 54616 | |
| Chris Fayers (Research Analyst) |
Corporate environmental and social reporting, corporate social responsibility, and socially responsible investment | 990 55445 | |
| Angelina Lee (Research Analyst) |
Business and sustainability with focus on environmental governance including sustainability reporting, energy and climate change, and development and application of corporate environmental risk assessment tools | 990 58406 | |
| Julian Scarff (Research Analyst) |
Social and environmental governance; corporate social and environmental accountability; corporate social and environmental risk assessment tools; sustainability reporting and investment | 990 59202 | |
| Honorary Research Associates | |||
| Garrick Hitchcock, (Research Associate) |
Social anthropologist with research interests in Melanesia, Torres Strait and Aboriginal Australia; political ecology of Indigenous land- and seascapes; native title; cultural heritage | |
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| Sue Carswell (Research Fellow) |
Social Anthropologist with research interests in migration and transnational communities in rural Australia, gender and familial relations, family violence and youth justice | ||
| Monash Regional Australia Project | |||
| Jacqui Dibden | Social anthropologist with research interests in rural social change in Australia and Indonesia, including the social and economic impacts of rural restructuring and regulatory change, and rural activism | 990 52162 | |
General Staff
| School Manager | Heather Fletcher | 990 52941 | |
| HR & Research Admininstration | Kerrie Cake | 990 58127 | |
| Professional Officer GIS & IT | Shobhit Chandra | 990 59246 | |
| Finance Administrative Officer | Jean Newey | 990 52929 | |
| Laboratory Technician | Ursula Pietrzak | 990 51427 | |
| Post Graduate Administrative Officer | Bianca Roggenbucke | 990 54624 | |
| Photographer/Multimedia | Kara Rasmanis | 990 52924 | |
| Webmaster | Phil Scamp | 990 52924 | |
| Cartography, Map Library & Publications | Gary Swinton | 990 52922 | |
| Workshop & Field Technician | David Tooth | 990 52917 | |
| Undergraduate Administrative Officer | Maureen Upston | 990 52910 | |