Researchers

	Emily Nicholson, senior lecturer. Emily is interesting in solving conservation problems. Her  research interests include forecasting change in biodiversity through scenario modelling, biodiversity indicators, conservation planning, and global biodiversity policy, including the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems.
	Lucie Bland, postdoctoral research fellow. Lucie develops mechanistic models of ecosystem collapse to inform the criteria for the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems. Her interests include global conservation policy, macroecology and computational statistics.
	Paul Carnell, postdoctoral research fellow. Paul’s research focuses on environmental science at the interface of research and management of ecosystems, in particular marine and coastal ecosystem services including blue carbon.
	Clare Duncan, postdoctoral research fellow
	Biao Huang, postdoctoral research fellow
Current students
	Chris Hallam, PhD student, The University of Melbourne, co-supervised with Brendan Wintle. Chris’s research focus on the tradeoffs between development, biodiversity and human well-being and how to model and test different policy options at different spatial scales to make better decisions for conservation and development.
	Holger Janes, PhD student, Deakin University, co-supervised with Peter Macreadie and Dan Ierodiaconou. Holger is interested in marine and coastal ecosystem services.
	Matt Linn, PhD student, Deakin University, co-supervised with Rebecca Lester and Lucie Bland. Matt is interested in understanding the impacts of scale in applications of the IUCN Red list of Ecosystems.
	Jess Rowland, PhD student, Deakin University, co-supervised with Lucie Bland and Rebecca Lester. Jess’s PhD research focusses on how to assess change in ecosystem function, with a focus on applying state-and-transition models in conjunction with the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems.
	Gerry Ryan, PhD student, The University of Melbourne, co-supervised with Mick McCarthy. Gerry is studying the elements underlying achieving successful conservation impacts, and how we can, do, and should evaluate them.
	Simone Stevenson, PhD student, Deakin University. Simone’s research focusses on evaluating biodiversity indicators.
Collaborators

Former students

Leanne Greenwood (2015-16), honours, Optimal monitoring at Wilson’s Prom, Deakin University

Hayley Geyle. (2015), honours, optimal monitoring of the brush tailed rabbit rat on the Tiwi Islands, Deakin University

William La Marca (2014-2015), MSc, Conservation planning on the Tiwi Islands, Qaeco, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne

Andrea Coombs Wallace (2008-2012), PhD, Participatory monitoring of fishers’ spatial behaviour: estimating social costs in local conservation planning, Imperial College London

Brendan Costelloe (2010), MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: The power of global biodiversity indicators to predict future policy outcomes (Distinction). Now working at the RSPB.

Kathryn Sullivan (2010), MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Global biodiversity indicators: scenario modelling for fisheries policy

Soizic Le Courtois (2010), MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Household choices in rice cultivation in a social-ecological system and impacts on productivity: lessons from Anororo, Lac Alaotra, Madagascar (Distinction)

Olena Tarasova (2009), MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Systematic conservation planning in Ukraine under uncertainty

Paul De Ornellas (2008), MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: How uncertainty affects conservation planning: a Florida case study (Distinction). Now working in the Africa programme at the ZSL.

Jose J. Lahoz-Monfort (2008), MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Habitat suitability modelling for the Alaotran gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis) (Distinction, Gerald Durrell Award for best thesis).

Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita (2008), MSc in Conservation Science, Imperial College London: Occupancy and detectability of Hapalemur alaotrensis: recommendations for monitoring (Distinction).