Jon has a broad interest in natural history and grew up in Brisbane keeping and breeding native fish and collecting butterflies. Professionally, he has over 35 years of experience as an aquatic ecologist working on Queensland’s streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands. He completed his PhD in 2002 at Griffith University with research on the environmental and biotic factors influencing the composition of the fauna inhabiting pools in rainforest streams. He commenced working for the Queensland Government in 1996 researching the ecology of aquatic fauna, particularly macroinvertebrates and fish. He has a particular interest in the development and application of methods and tools to link environmental stressors to ecological responses, including ecosystem responses to flow regime modifications and environmental variability over both short- and long- time scales. Areas of focus include intermittent, dryland rivers and wallum wetlands such as those on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). He currently holds a leadership role in the Queensland Department of Environment and Science in a team which provides innovative scientific research, monitoring and assessment to underpin the sustainable management of Queensland’s water resources. He is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University.
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