Chief Investigator

Professor Pandolfi's research focusses on the ecological dynamics of coral reef ecosystems over broad spatial and temporal scales.

Research Interests include:

1. Long-term ecology of coral reefs

2. Using Historical Ecology to guide reef management actions

3. The palaeoecological, evolutionary, and extinction dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals

4. Hybridization, extinction, and evolution in a Caribbean reef coral species complex

Chief Investigator

Professor Lovelock's research focusses on the influence of environmental change, including climate change, on the ecology of coastal and marine plant communities and in providing knowledge to underpin conservation and restoration of these ecosystems now and in the future.

Chief Investigator

Carissa Klein is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at The University of Queensland, working in the field of conservation science. She leads a group of students and post-doctoral researchers in partnership with numerous non-government organisations (e.g. Wildlife Conservation Society) and government departments (e.g., Sabah Parks in Borneo) around the world. Her team's research is motivated by real-world conservation management and policy problems. They specialise in integrating social, economic, and ecological information to develop solutions that improve outcomes for nature and people.

Senior Research fellow

Dr. Simon Albert has a background in the fields of natural resource management, water quality, marine ecology and climate change. For the past 15 years he has worked at the intersection of these fields in both Australia and Melanesia providing a gradient of social-political-ecological factors. Through this foundation of land-sea connectivity Dr. Albert has developed integrated monitoring approaches that capture temporally and spatially relevant water quality trends. Dr. Albert has worked on a range of resource projects across Melanesia in both a research and consulting capacity. Over the past 10 years of working closely with communities, government and industry, Dr. Albert has established strong networks and is a highly skilled communicator of environmental monitoring and research.

Research Assistant

I graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in June 2021, from the University of Queensland. I am currently using genetic techniques (metabarcoding and eDNA analyses) to better understand patterns of biodiversity over temporal and spatial scales in Moreton Bay.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Gal is currently working as Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellow at the Marine Palaeoecology Lab, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. His expertise is in mesophotic Coral Ecosystems, Ecology, Physiology, Adaptation, and Ecosystem Dynamics using ecological and technological tools.

Senior Research Fellow

My primary interests are in monitoring and understanding biogeochemical processes within shallow water ecosystems. My formal training was in biochemistry and marine biology focusing on Southern Ocean food webs. Subsequently, I have focused on monitoring sediment loading and greenhouse gas emissions from sub-tropical coastal and freshwater systems.

I joined the School of Civil Engineering in 2007 to work in the area of sediment biogeochemical cycling in freshwater storages and coastal lagoons. In order to better understand these processes it is critical to monitor overlying water column processes as well as catchment interactions. Therefore, my primary research activities have been in the developing novel monitoring systems of catchments and their receiving water bodies.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Moreton Bay Sustainable Urban Seascapes project, which is based at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. I have recently been working as a Senior Research Officer at the Queensland University of Technology, and I continue to hold a Visiting Fellow position at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University (following my time as a Rose Postdoctoral Research Associate), in Ithaca, New York, U.S.A (2017-2019)).

The main focus of much of my work these days is sustainability, communication, behaviour, and community and stakeholder engagement in solutions to the most pressing environmental challenges we currently face. I draw from social psychology, communication theories, and environmental studies to understand why people do the things they do, and how we might engage society in improving environmental and social outcomes. I am passionate about improving the quality of social research used to inform environmental decision-making!

Professor

My research group uses genetic markers as tools for understanding dispersal and gene flow, often with conservation implications and most frequently focusing on highly dispersive marine animals such as fishes, mussels, and corals. We also study how gene flow and natural selection affect genomic variation and limit gene exchange across genomes, populations, and species.

Director, Centre for Marine Science Academic Director, MBRS

Postdoctoral Research Fellow