Contacts

Seona Meharg

  • Seona is an interdisciplinary social scientist researching how individuals and organisations learn and change, specifically asking what enables individuals and groups to take up ownership of knowledge, tools, and processes for more informed decision-making in complex domains such as climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction and health.

Mike Dunlop

  • Mike is an integration scientist with CSIRO Land and Water in Canberra, Australia. His research is on climate adaptation. Mike’s research has a particular focus on understanding the implications of climate change for biodiversity conservation and helping natural resource managers and policymakers make planning decisions that effectively incorporate consideration of future climate change.

Dayna Hayman

  • Dayna Hayman is an experienced visual designer, working across a variety of government and private sectors. She leverages design thinking methodologies to understand intended goals, various audience needs, unpack complex topics, and navigate authorship teams to deliver powerful visualisations. As a graphic recorder, she draws on her strategic workshop experience (design, facilitation, and output syntheses) to find conversations’ ‘golden threads’ recording these live in a vibrant drawing style.
  • To learn more about Dayna see her website www.daynahayman.com.au

Jess Melbourne-Thomas

  • Jess is a transdisciplinary researcher and knowledge broker, and she leads the Marine Socio-ecological Systems Team in the Sustainable Marine Futures Program with CSIRO Environment in Hobart. Jess’ background is in mathematical modelling and Antarctic climate change science, and the focus of her current role is on helping to connect research to decision-making for sustainability and climate change adaptation.

Maryam Ahmad

  • Maryam is passionate about the connection between environmental science and environmental policy. At CSIRO, she is currently undertaking research to understand what makes for best practice knowledge generation and dissemination processes between scientists and policy makers.

Stephanie Beaupark

  • Stephanie is Associate Lecturer (Career Development Fellow) and PhD candidate in Indigenous science and natural product chemistry at University of Wollongong.

Tim Capon

  • Tim explores economic theories of decision-making under risk and uncertainty to understand the factors that shape decisions and market outcomes. Applications include work on economic resilience, disaster mitigation, climate change adaptation decision-making, the design of market-based instruments for natural resource management, and the economics of plant and animal biosecurity. A particular research interest is the use of real options analysis to investigate economic resilience.

Michaela Cosijn

  • Michaela has a M.Sc In integrated Environmental Sciences from Southampton University. She has over 20 years of experience in environmental management, natural hazard identification and risk management; and international development enhancing livelihood programmes. She joined CSIRO in 2013, after living and working in Mozambique for 12 years and New Zealand for 4.5 years. Her key skills are in (i) climate adaptation and proofing of programmes (ii) pro-poor value chain development in the agriculture and fisheries sector with a focus on gender integration; (iii) agricultural innovation systems; (iv) establishing monitoring and evaluation systems; (v) participatory planning processes; and (vi) situational assessments and associated risk evaluations. She has worked in sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Sabrina Chakori

  • Sabrina Chakori is a passionate systems modeler (systems thinking, system dynamics, network analysis), she believes that systems approaches are crucial to understanding and tackling current socio-ecological wicked problems.

Russell Gorddard

  • Russell is an agricultural and natural resource economist by training with research interests in sustainability, adaptation to global change and the relationship between knowledge, values and rules in framing the decision context for adaptation planning and action. He has a strong research interest in emerging systems of transactions and exchange in social-economic systems and their implications for adaptation to change.

Nicky Grigg

  • Nicky works in interdisciplinary teams on a diverse range of projects concerned with global change and social-ecological systems. She brings experience in mathematical modelling and analysis of social-ecological systems. Current and recent projects she has worked on include: the development and application of a resilience, adaptation and transformation assessment framework for sustainability projects; interdisciplinary river basin analyses in South Asia; and projects exploring alternative futures for Australia through scenario and modelling analysis, including explorations of Australia’s vulnerability to natural hazards, and characterising societal benefits from water management.
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Ashlin Lee

  • Ashlin is a digital sociologist with an interest in the intersection of society, data, and technology, and the implementation of these intersections in everyday life. This includes topics such as surveillance, artificial intelligence, platforms, data practice, and other areas where data-driven systems interface with society. A qualitative researcher by training, he has worked on projects in a diverse range of areas including digital agriculture, design and user experience, health behaviours, smart cities, and water and society, using social science and design methods. He is also an Honorary Lecturer in Sociology, and member of the JusTech Research Laboratory, both at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
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Yiheyis Taddele Maru

  • Yiheyis is a social-ecological systems research scientist. Yiheyis has been conducting research for sustainable indigenous livelihoods and resilient regional development in remote Australia, as well as systems research for food security and agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Claudia Munera-Roldan

  • Claudia is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner. Her work and research focus on the interface science-policy-practice in environmental governance arrangements, co-production, and futures. Claudia is interested in applying future-oriented approaches, exploring options towards strategic thinking and collective learning to navigate global changes, considering the linkages between local communities, private and public sector initiatives to find options towards sustainable futures.

Minh Nguyen

  • Minh is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO, Australia and an Honorary Associate Professor of Can Tho University, Vietnam. His expertise is on integrated sciences, ranging from climate adaptation for engineering infrastructure to system-based approaches for navigating adaptation pathways to sustainability in urban development, agriculture production, and rural livelihood. Currently, Minh is working on science commercialisation to enhance sustainable impacts of research outcomes.

Deb O’Connell

  • Deb has a background across many disciplines including: agriculture, ecology, forestry, hydrology, bioenergy, spatial and statistical analysis. Currently, she specialises in interdisciplinary and implementation sciences: her research in the last 20 years has focused on developing and applying integrated assessment frameworks and systems analysis approaches in the domains of water and energy; as well as sustainability science and adaptive responses to global change.

Greg Parish

  • Greg is a multi-disciplinary project coordinator and visual communicator with over a decade of experience in the GLAM sector, working across national collecting institutions co-designing and developing exhibition and interpretation projects and public programs.

Rachel Williams

  • Rachel is a social scientist with interests in how communities and organisations respond to external change and how scientists, communities, the public sector and the private sector can learn to work together to enable effective adaptation to change.

Russ Wise

  • Russ is a sustainability economist passionate about working with people to help understand the challenges caused by rapid technological and environmental change and economic development and to develop approaches that enable learning and decision making under uncertainty.

Kim Zoeller

  • Kim is an interdisciplinary scientist, with specific expertise in assessing how important interactions at different levels of ecological and social organisation contributes to human wellbeing and fosters support for conservation and other forms of nature stewardship. As a postdoctoral fellow for the Functional Ecosystems project, Kim seeks to investigate the social-ecological context for ecosystem function indicators.