Environmental science and management
If you have a passion for science, sustainability and want to play a part in solving the environmental problems facing our society, the Bachelor of Environmental Science and Management at the University of Newcastle is for you. You'll learn to understand and combat the critical issues placing a growing strain on the earth’s natural resources such as climate change, human impacts, and the biodiversity crisis. Finding scientific solutions to our current environmental issues.
Dr Alex Callen
Lecturer Vegetation and Restoration Ecology
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Alex's research focuses on the recovery of threatened species in response to ecological restoration to mitigate multiple environmental stresses and how fine scale habitat manipulations can improve their survival.
Dr Craig Evans
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Specialities include: microbial species in environmental samples, Gas chromatography mass spectrometry
- Craig.Evans@newcastle.edu.au
- 0240550695
Assoc Prof Troy Gaston
Associate Dean Engagement and Outreach
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Specialities include: marine, coastal and estuarine ecosystem functioning and health, habitat rehabilitation, fishery productivity.
- Troy.Gaston@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243494569
Assoc Prof Andrea Griffin
Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation Science
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Andrea's core interests lie in using interdisciplinary research approaches to understanding how animals cope with environmental change over the short (within their lifetimes) and long-(evolutionary) term.
- Andrea.Griffin@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243484393
Professor Matthew Hayward
Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Dubbed the world’s leading lion scientist, Professor Matthew Hayward is on a quest to give biodiversity and endangered species a chance to survive. Working on a wide range of co-designed projects globally, his research is seeing real-world benefits.
- Matthew.Hayward@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217472
Dr Megan Huggett
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Dr Megan Huggett’s work is all about understanding the impact of climate change, pollutants and contaminants on marine ecosystems. Her focus is on microbes – the nearly invisible universe at the bottom of the ocean.
- Megan.Huggett@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243484025
Professor Bill Leggat
Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Bill's research group focuses on understand the transcriptome and metabolome of the eukaryotic microbe Symbiodinium,their coral host and associated bacterial.
- Bill.Leggat@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243484021
Assoc Prof Geoff MacFarlane
Associate Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Specialities include: estuarine and marine ecotoxicology
- Geoff.Macfarlane@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249217858
Assoc Prof Bonnie McBain
Associate Professor
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Dr Bonnie McBain is advocating for a more holistic approach to examining change resistant issues, building community, and modeling solutions.
- Bonnie.Mcbain@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249218871
Assoc Prof Liam Phelan
Associate Professor in Sustainability Science
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
My particular interest is the relationship between the Earth system and the global economy as a subsystem of the Earth system, and how to bring the global economy into alignment with the Earth system
- Liam.Phelan@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216464
Dr Margaret Platell
Lecturer - Coastal and Marine Science
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Functional ecology of fish and invertebrates in marine, estuarine and freshwater environments, with a view to understanding potential human impacts, including fishing, fish stocking and aquaculture activities.
- Margaret.Platell@newcastle.edu.au
- 0243494809
Dr Darren Southwell
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Darren builds mathematical models to predict how endangered populations might respond to management. This modelling helps identify the most cost-effective management strategies for species at risk of extinction.
- Darren.Southwell@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216826
Dr Michael Stat
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
My research to date has focused on the evolutionary ecology of coral symbioses and the many applications of environmental DNA (eDNA).
- Michael.Stat@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249215710
Dr Brooke Williams
Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
My current research focusses on improving outcomes of global conservation policies and environmental markets through the use of innovative cross disciplinary tools and assessments
Dr Richard Yu
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
My primary research interests are in the molecular toxicology of environmental stressors and chemicals
- Richard.Yu@newcastle.edu.au
- 0249216990
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