Staff

Ana Bugnot

- Is a marine ecologist focused on developing restoration and nature-based solutions to the most pressing marine environmental issues.
- Her research aims to harness the natural capacity of marine coastal ecosystems to provide important ecosystem function and services to ameliorate those issues. To achieve this, she studies the environmental drivers of ecosystem function and services in marine coastal habitats, and how they are influenced by human activities.

- Has led many significant multi-institutional projects on information systems including eReefs on the Great Barrier Reef Australia and the SIMA-Austral project on salmonid farming in Chile.
- Andy is active in policy development and industry engagement
- Andy works across the Indo-Pacific to develop the tools and capacity to enable a sustainable and equitable blue economy for the region.

- Is a marine ecologist who works on fisheries management and marine conservation planning.
- Her tasks primarily include project management/logistics, database management, analyses, stereo camera data processing.
- Projects she works on include Northern Prawn Fishery Monitoring, Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, Ningaloo Outlook 2.

- Aims to develop strategies to provide scalable solutions for effective coral reef restoration.
- Specialises in how environmental interactions and demographic rates influence stage-specific recovery trajectories.
- Projects are often multidisciplinary, involving ecologists, oceanographers, marine engineers, and community stakeholders.

- Marine ecologist working across the Indo-Pacific on blue carbon ecosystems including mangroves, saltmarsh & seagrass.
- Focuses on the conservation, restoration & sustainable use of these habitats to support livelihoods & healthy environments.
- Current projects involve large-scale restoration & technical training programs in seven countries.

- George is an ecologist with broad research expertise in coastal and marine ecosystems
- His research incorporates field experiments and modelling to understand how life history traits and ecological processes scale across space and time
- He aims to understand how restoration efforts scale across coastal ecosystems

- Is a research technician supporting a range of research that mainly focuses on blue carbon ecosystems and coral restoration.
- Her tasks include project management and logistics, project reporting, client liaison, workshop planning, field work and science communication.
- Current projects include capacity building in the Indian Ocean and assisting field experiments in Australia.

- Is a marine ecologist with research interests and expertise in coastal marine restoration and rehabilitation and marine urban ecology.
- Her current research investigates the spatial dependencies of facilitative interactions among coastal marine habitats, with a focus on understanding how these interactions can be used to design and scale up coastal marine restoration.
- She aims to identify how these interactions can be used to design and scale-up multi-habitat restoration.

- Mat is a marine ecologist with 25 years of experience studying coastal vegetated ecosystems.
- His research focusses on finding nature-based solutions to problems including climate change, food security and coastal hazards
- His research has encompassed tropical and temperate ecosystems in Australia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the USA, France and around the Indian Ocean

- Megan an interdisciplinary marine ecologist with expertise in coastal marine restoration, drivers of change in coastal ecosystems, and spatial marine ecological modelling.
- She holds several leadership positions related to marine and coastal restoration, including co-leading the Australian Coastal Restoration Network, leading research in the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub, and convening the CSIRO Restoration Community of Practice.
- Her overall goal is to help achieve the scaling up of ecological restoration, and to this end her research involves collaboration with practitioners and decision makers, as well as researchers from diverse fields including engineering, geography, law, decision science, social science and economics.

- Mibu is a marine ethnoecologist and Aboriginal scientist working at the intersection of knowledge systems in marine and coastal science.
- Her research involves strengthening partnerships and processes between Indigenous communities, researchers and government agencies.
- Her goal is to create opportunity for Indigenous communities who are facing climate change impacts to engage in decision making processes.

- Robert is a marine ecologist who works on the biology and management of coral reefs.
- He has researched coral responses to global change and interventions to help reefs recover.
- He currently uses experiments and models to quantify coral dispersal for reef restoration.

- Rodrigo is a marine ecologist with more than 30 years of experience.
- He has undertaken research in Chile, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Ecuador (Galapagos Islands), and for the past +20 years, in Australia.
- He works at the interface of coastal-marine ecosystem conservation and the sustainability of natural resources. His work aims to supports the development of science-based environmental policies and its applied management.

- Toni is an interdisciplinary coastal ecologist ensuring triple bottom line outcomes by engaging with stakeholders using integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) approaches.
- Toni led the Slacks Creek catchment (estuarine) ecological restoration project
- Her research involves offsets, fisheries management, seabed biodiversity, blue ‘coastal’ carbon and restoration to manage coastal hazards.