A multidisciplinary project with a multidisciplinary team
Meet the core team of researchers working on the EcoAdapt project. Additional researchers and assistants are called upon as required. The researchers work within the project's themes:
- Project integration, management and ecological/GIS modelling
- Understanding coastal processes
- Risk assessment of alternative adaptation responses
- Micro-economic benefit-cost analyses
- Policy and social barriers
Project integration, management and ecological/GIS modelling
Melissa Jackson
Project Manager, EcoAdapt and Rebuilding Tanna projects
Affiliated with the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
Expertise: Sustainable development; Local governance; Environmental governance; Community development; Citizen participation
Dr Willow Hallgren
Ecological Modeller, EcoAdapt and ESRAM projects
Expertise: Ecological modelling; Regional and global climate modelling; Integrated assessment modelling; Land use/land surface/vegetation-atmosphere interactions; Climate impacts; Renewable energy resource assessment
Professor Rod Connolly
Marine and Coastal Scientist, ESRAM and EcoAdapt projects
Affiliated with the Griffith School of Environment and Science & Australian Rivers Institute
Expertise: Ecology of coastal habitats including coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass and saltmarsh; Ecosystem resilience and Marine Protected Areas; Carbon sequestration and food webs in coastal wetlands; Marine spatial planning
Understanding coastal processes
Professor Rodger Tomlinson
Lead - Understanding coastal processes, EcoAdapt project
Director, Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
Expertise: Climate change adaptation; Coastal engineering; Coastal and island studies; coastal processes
Dr Serena B Lee
Research Fellow - Oceanographer, Whales and a Changing Climate project
Affiliated with the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
Expertise: Coastal zone management
Alyssa Giffin
PhD scholar. Assisting with the EcoAdapt project
Affiliated with the Australian Rivers Institute
Gaelle Faivre
PhD scholar. Assisting with the EcoAdapt project
Affiliated with the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management
Risk assessment of alternative adaptation responses
Professor Rodney Stewart
Professor, School of Engineering and Built Environment
Micro-economic benefit-cost analysis
Professor Chris Fleming
Lead - Micro-economics benefit-cost analyses, EcoAdapt, Re-building Tanna, ESRAM, Tropical Primary Forests and Climate Change, Boreal & Temperate Primary Forests and Climate Change projects
Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism
Expertise: Social and economic project/program evaluation; Economic determinants of subjective wellbeing; Indigenous wellbeing; Natural resource and environmental economics; Economics of crime
Associate Professor Jim Smart
Lead - Micro-economics benefit-cost analyses, EcoAdapt, Re-building Tanna, ESRAM, Tropical Primary Forests and Climate Change projects and Boreal & Temperate Primary Forests and Climate Change projects
Affiliated with the Griffith School of Environment and Science
Expertise: Resource Economics;Environmental Economics; Environmental Valuation
Andrew Buckwell
Economics Researcher, EcoAdapt & ESRAM projects
Affiliated with the Griffith Business School
Dr Syezlin Hasan
Research Fellow in Environmental Economics
Affiliated with the Australian Rivers Institute
Social and policy constraints
Professor Susanne Becken
Lead - Policy and social barriers, EcoAdapt project
Professor, Griffith Institute for Tourism
Expertise: Carbon footprint; Climate change vulnerability and adaptation destination management; Energy use; Environmental management; Global health governance; Resilience risk perception
Johanna Loehr (nee Schliephack)
PhD scholar. Assisting with the EcoAdapt project
Affiliated with the Griffith Institute for Tourism
Dr Wade Hadwen
Research Fellow, EcoAdapt project
Affiliated with the Australian Rivers Institute
Expertise: Aquatic ecology (freshwater and estuarine); Protected area management; Visitor impacts/indicators; Climate change adaptation; Water, sanitation and hygiene; Water resource management in climate-vulnerable settings