I’m the Matthew Flinders Professor of International Ecology and Director of the International Ecology Laboratory at Flinders College in South Australia. I lead the Flinders College Node within the Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF), and was the top of the Flinders Modelling Node of the Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. I used to be previously the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Local weather Change on the College of Adelaide, and an Australian Analysis Council (ARC) Degree 3 Future Fellow, with earlier positions on the South Australian Analysis and Growth Institute, Charles Darwin College, and the College of Tasmania. I accomplished three tertiary levels in ecology (BSc, MSc, PhD) from universities in Canada and New Zealand, and a Certificates in Veterinary Conservation Medication from Murdoch College.
My raison d’être is to exhibit to human society that we are able to now not ignore the impacts of deforestation, air pollution, illness, habitat loss, extinctions, over-grazing, over-fishing or warming climates on human wealth, well being, and wellbeing. Scientists should not solely current the empirical proof underlying these relationships, they need to additionally excel in telling their tales and advocating for constructive change. In a world the place human exercise has precipitated the present Anthropocene extinction occasion, my goal is to supply irrefutable proof to affect authorities coverage and personal behaviour for the preservation of our planet’s biowealth.
I’ve revealed over 350 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 13 e-book chapters and three books, together with The Efficient Scientist (Cambridge College Press) and Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie (Chicago College Press). I’m extremely cited and a member of the School of 1000 and Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. I used to be recognised on the 2024 Stanford Elsevier World’s High 2% Scientists listing and the 2021 Reuters Sizzling Listing of Local weather Scientists. I used to be award the 2023 Flinders College Vice-Chancellor’s for Analysis Management, the 2022 Scientist of the Yr (Finalist) within the South Australian Science Excellence and Innovation Awards, the 2017 Verco Medal from the Royal Society of South Australia, a 2017 Rockefeller Basis Bellagio Author’s Fellowship, the 2012 Mid-Profession Analysis Excellence Award from the School of Sciences on the College of Adelaide, the 2010 Australian Ecology Analysis Award, the 2010 Scopus Younger Researcher of the Yr, the 2009 HG Andrewartha Medal, and a 2008 Younger Tall Poppy Science Award. I’m frequently featured in Australian and worldwide media for my analysis.
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