Nicholas Abel

Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University

Wildlife Ecologist 1969-76, Zambian National Parks and UN/FAO Somalia

Masters in rural and regional planning University of Aberdeen 1976-78

Lecturer University of East Anglia, UK, 1978-1990. Land resource assessment and management. Land degradation policies.

Seconded to International Livestock Centre for Africa 1980-83. Rangeland degradation research.

Lecturer/S.L University of Canberra 1990-95. Land resource assessment and management. Mental models of landscape processes.

Principal Research Scientist CSIRO 1995-2011. Multi-layered land use in rangelands. Resilience theory and practice. Adaptive environmental governance. Sea level rise and coastal adaptation.

Honorary Fellow, CSIRO, 2011- 2016. Climate change and adaptive pathways to transformation in the Murray Darling Basin. Building resilience into development projects and programs, UN Global Environment Facility. Fellowship canceled for leaking internal CSIRO information on budget cuts to climate science to media and politicians, and for telling the public on ABC Lateline.

Honorary Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society and Institute of Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, ANU, 2016 - present. Participative research on climate activism including a sample of jail time.

Experience

2016–present

Honorary Associate Professor, Fenner School, ANU
2011–2016

Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
1995–2011

Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
1990–1995

Senior lecturer, Environmental Science Uni of Canberra
1978–1990

Lecturer, School of Development Studies, Uni of East Anglia, UK
1982–1984

Senior scientist, International Livestock Centre for Africa, Botswana
1974–1976

Wildlife ecologist, UN FAO - Somalia
1969–1974

Wildlife ecologist, Zambian National Parks

Education

1993

Uni of East Anglia, Ph.D.
1978

Uni of Aberdeen, Scotland, M.Sc Rural and Regional Planning
1968

Uni of Southampton, UK, B.Sc(hons)

Honours

Holiday in Alexander Maconochie Centre