People

Will Elrick

Optimising landscape connectivity through regenerative and rehabilitation practices in sugarcane

Will is looking at how regenerative and rehabilitation practices on cane farms can reconnect habitat across the landscape.

Brenna Fletcher

How adaptive grazing affects water retention

Brenna is measuring how adaptive grazing changes the way soils on grazing farms capture and hold water.

Ed White

Multispecies dynamics of dung beetles in managed grassland

Ed is investigating the ecological dynamics of dung beetles under different livestock management regimes across the Northern Rivers.

Deb Gray

Impacts of biostimulants on soil microbial communities and plant productivity

Deb has been testing how commercial biostimulants affect soil microbes and pasture growth, and is about to start a PhD.

Aleisha Knack

Assessing the distribution and detection methods for the threatened water mouse (Xeromys myoides) in coastal ecosystems in Eastern Queensland

Aleisha mapped where the threatened water mouse is likely to occur and compared ways of detecting it.

Jen Ringbauer

Developing an index to measure farm-level resilience: A Tasmanian case study

Jen developed an index for measuring how resilient farms are, tested on Tasmanian farms.

Bonnie Martin-Stuart

Setting the baseline for regeneration of temperate native grassy ecosystems in montane agricultural landscapes: An agroecological approach to soil health

Bonnie measured vegetation and soil health to set a baseline for regenerating native grassy ecosystems on a montane farm in New South Wales.

Ami Coughlan

Risk assessment and mitigations of the potential impacts of trout predation on New Zealand's indigenous fish species

Ami assessed which native fish are most at risk from trout predation and tested whether trout change the habitat use of dwarf galaxiids.

Dr Dylan Irvine

We work together on water quality in the Keep River and Ord River Irrigation Area, including ways to assess rivers where monitoring data are sparse.

Dr Hanabeth Luke

We work together on regenerative agriculture, including what it means in practice and how to measure farm resilience.

Prof Russell Death

A long-term collaborator since Adam's PhD, on river food webs, nutrient criteria, native fish and climate change.

Dr Mike Joy

We have worked together on nutrient criteria for New Zealand rivers, freshwater policy and the water footprint of dairy farming.