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Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland

My PhD with Green Fire Science at the University of Queensland focussed on assessing the state of intact or under-developed landscapes and how to plan for their conservation considering competing objectives. I’ve been lucky to work on several conservation and planning projects globally and across Australia, Central and South America, and Africa with various conservation groups including the Wildlife Conservation Society, The Nature Conservancy, and the International Institute for Sustainability Australia. I am now working as a postdoctoral researcher with the Sustainable Landscapes Group at the University of Queensland focusing on private land conservation, modelling and improving decision making considering ecosystem service flows.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland
  • 2017–2022
    PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
  • 2020–2021
    Research fellow, International Institute of Sustainability Australia
  • 2017–2020
    Research Assistant, The University of Queensland/Wildlife Conservation Society

Education

  • 2016 
    The University of Queensland, Honours (Class 1)
  • 2013 
    The University of Queensland, Bachelor of Science, Ecology and Zoology majors

Publications

  • 2022
    Global rarity of intact coastal regions, Conservation Biology
  • 2021
    The potential for applying “Nonviolent Communication” in conservation science, Conservation Science and Practice
  • 2021
    Multinational Coordination Required for Conservation of at least 90% of Marine Species, Global Change Biology
  • 2021
    Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change, Global Change Biology
  • 2021
    How to halve the carbon and biodiversity impacts of biofuel-driven land-use change in Brazil, Biological Conservation
  • 2020
    Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems, One Earth
  • 2020
    Set a global target for ecosystems, Nature
  • 2020
    Australia faces environmental crisis, Science
  • 2020
    A robust goal is needed for species in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Conservation Letters
  • 2020
    Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of rapid agricultural development, Environmental Research Letters
  • 2020
    Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land, Nature communications
  • 2020
    Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • 2019
    Three global conditions for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: An implementation framework, National Science Review
  • 2018
    Absence of evidence for the conservation outcomes of systematic conservation planning around the globe: a systematic map, Environmental Evidence
  • 2018
    The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems, Nature ecology & evolution
  • 2018
    The threats endangering Australia's at-risk fauna, Biological Conservation
  • 2017
    Optimising the spatial planning of prescribed burns to achieve multiple objectives in a fire‐dependent ecosystem, Journal of Applied Ecology