Professor Angela Arthington has been conferred with the title Emeritus Professor in recognition of her distinguished service to scholarship and to the University.Angela commenced at Griffith University on 13 October 1975 and has held an appointment at the level of Professor since 1994. She became the founding Director of the
Centre of Catchment and In-stream Research (CCISR) in 1987, and continued in a full-time research role in the Centre for Riverine Landscapes and, more recently, in the Australian Rivers Institute.
Angela is an aquatic ecologist with a wide knowledge of freshwater biology, flow-ecology relationships and processes in rivers and floodplains, lake ecology/limnology, impacts of land-use, flow regulation and alien species in aquatic ecosystems, river and lake health assessment. Her expertise is in tropical, sub-tropical and arid-zone river fish assemblages, recruitment and river-floodplain processes. Angela is willing to teach tailored courses in environmental flows for rivers, wetlands, groundwater systems and estuaries.
The staff and students of the Australian Rivers Institute congratulate Angela and are pleased that Angela will continue her association with the Institute through an Adjunct appointment following her retirement at the end of this year.