People & Projects
Prediction
Species relocation in the face of climate change
The Mountain Ash Forest
Who's ready for climate change? You can Google that...
Why is environmental decision science so important?
THe CEED advantage
Everyday Nature
Science for children
Questionable research practice
Ivory Burn
The elevator pitch
The viscous cycle to extinction
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Prediction
CEED Chief Investigator Brendan Wintle explains prediction and why it is so important for environmental decision science. Photos: USDA NRCS South Dakota, AusCarbon Group, @ApesFinal, WWF Australia -
Species relocation in the face of climate change
Eve McDonald-Madden explains the complexities that go with potential species relocation, which might be nescessary to stop population decline or extinction in the face of climate change. -
The Mountain Ash Forest
Victoria's mountain ash forest is in a bad way and something needs to be done, says Professor David Lindenmayer. -
Who's ready for climate change? You can Google that...
CEED PhD Candidate Carla Archibald talks about her study with UQ's Nathalie Butt that used Google search history data to analyse which countries are most aware, and ready for the impacts of climate change. -
Why is environmental decision science so important?
CEED partner Investigator and Nature Conservancy Chief Scientist Professor Hugh Possingham explains why environmental decision science is so important. -
THe CEED advantage
Dr Angela Guerrero-Gonzalez talks about the advantages of being part of CEED and working in a project with multiple stakeholders in Brazil. -
Everyday Nature
Being able to see and interact with nature everyday can be a key solution to improving liveability in cities and making cities more robust in the face of climate change. -
Science for children
CEED Chief Investigator and RMIT researcher Professor Sarah Bekessy talks about the children's book she put together with other researchers and an artist to reconnect kids with nature! She says it is one of the scientific achievements she is most proud of. More on 'The Little Things That Run the City' can be found here -
Questionable research practice
Are you doing any of these questionable research practices? Dr Hannah Fraser's study showed about 50% of ecological researchers has done at least one thing which could be considered questionable. -
Ivory Burn
The world's largest ivory burn delivered a strong message - but who received it? A new study has found media coverage predominately reached a Western audience, which has few elephant poachers and few consumers of illegally-sourced ivory. -
The elevator pitch
How would you explain your research in a literal elevator pitch. -
The viscous cycle to extinction
Dr Matthew Holden uses math to explain how a seemingly 'safe' population can get on the vicious cycle toward extinction.
Research
How conservation is like cricket
How working in West Africa led to researching conservation psychology
Nature Connectedness at Science on Tap
Please Keep to the Path: NSW blog
Decision Point Magazine: The future is up to you
What happened at the CEED Twitter Conference?
Vote Eduardo #1
eBird comes to Australia
Decision Point Magazine
CEED's global impact
Where are they now? Annabel Smith
Not ‘lucky’
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How conservation is like cricket
"Good nature reserve design is like building a good cricket team," says Professor Hugh Possingham. "You don't just value components individually, but how they work together. If you get that right you can save resources and achieve better conservation outcomes." -
How working in West Africa led to researching conservation psychology
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Nature Connectedness at Science on Tap
CEED's Dr Angela Dean, and UQ's Professor Richard Fuller and Associate Professor Kelly Fielding talk nature-connectedness at SCB Oceania in Brisbane. -
Please Keep to the Path: NSW blog
CEED PhD candidates are reading and writing on the best in conservation psychology, so you don't have to. Check out their blog. -
Decision Point Magazine: The future is up to you
Decision Point editor David Salt explains this issue of the magazine and asks you for your thoughts on the future of this unique publication. -
What happened at the CEED Twitter Conference?
CEED's first Twitter Conference #CEEDTC2018 was a huge success - check out some of the big things that happened. -
Vote Eduardo #1
Eduardo's (successful) SCB Vice President for Education and Outreach candidate. video. -
eBird comes to Australia
The world-renowned citizen science app, eBird, has come downunder. Find our how you can help birds and science all over the world. -
Decision Point Magazine
Decision Point magazine editor David Salt talks about 10 years at the helm of this unique decision science publication. -
CEED's global impact
CEED Advisory Board Chair Professor Alistar Robertson talks about CEED's global impact on environmental science and conservation. -
Where are they now? Annabel Smith
Dr Annabel Smith talks about her time at CEED and how it helped steer her successful research career. -
Not ‘lucky’
International Women's Day: CEED Director Professor Kerrie Wilson reflects on her career journey, realising that it was hard work, not luck, that helped her achieve her goals.
Chief Investigators
Eve Mcdonald-Madden
Peter Vesk
Jonathan Rhodes
Michael 'Mick' McCarthy
Sarah Bekessy
David Pannell
Brendan Wintle
David Lindenmayer
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Eve Mcdonald-Madden
CEED CI Eve Mcdonald-Madden talks about her work at CEED solving "complex" problems in the environment. -
Peter Vesk
Associate Professor Peter Vesk is an ecologist working mainly with plants. His research focusses on gathering and organising knowledge for ecological management of rural landscapes, on generalising ecological knowledge so as to facilitate availability of knowledge, and interactions between plants and animals. Peter aims to bridge the gap between field ecology and modelling. Recent emphasis has been on vegetation dynamics under human-influenced disturbance regimes. In this video Peter demonstrates 'leaf economics'. -
Jonathan Rhodes
Associate Professor Jonathan Rhodes is an applied ecologist working at the interface between ecology, social science and economics to improve and better understand conservation decision-making. He has a particular interest in understanding how spatial processes drive biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the implications of this for decision-making in conservation. Jonathan also has an interest in optimal monitoring and the benefits of learning and research investment for environmental decision-making. His work has applications across a wide range of scales from local to global and in both urban and rural landscapes. -
Michael 'Mick' McCarthy
Professor Michael McCarthy is CEED's Deputy Director and is based at the University of Melbourne. He is interested in developing, evaluating and applying models to assist in environmental management. In this video, Mick shows some examples of detection methods in the field. -
Sarah Bekessy
Associate Professor Sarah Bekessy has been teaching and conducting research in environmental studies at RMIT University since 2004. Using her background in conservation biology and more recent experience in the social sciences, Sarah has established a successful research team that seeks to engage in high impact, interdisciplinary and collaborative research to find solutions to applied environmental problems (Interdisciplinary Conservation Science research group). Sarah has published on technical and policy issues around biodiversity conservation, including planning for biodiversity in cities, the use of market-based instruments for biodiversity conservation, exploring synergies between carbon and biodiversity management, dynamic population modelling and exploring the role of genetics in conservation. -
David Pannell
David Pannell is Professor in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia, Director of the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, and a former Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council (2007-2012). His research includes the economics of land and water conservation; environmental policy; farmer adoption of land conservation practices; risk management; and economics of farming systems. He was President of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in 2000. Author of 220 journal articles and book chapters, David’s research has won awards in the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK, including the 2009 Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. -
Brendan Wintle
Professor Brendan Wintle conservation ecologist and ARC Future Fellow. He is interested in uncertainty and conservation decision making. I coordinate and teach 3rd-year Applied Ecology at Melbourne University. He is also a CEED Node Leader and Deputy Director of the Commonwealth Government’s National Environmental Science Programme Threatened Species Recovery Hub (NESP TSR). Brendan publishes on technical and policy issues around conservation and natural resource management, including optimal conservation investment, optimal monitoring and adaptive management, systematic conservation planning, population viability analysis, and habitat modelling and mapping. -
David Lindenmayer
Professor David Lindenmayer is the Node leader for The Australian National University CEED Node. He currently runs seven large-scale, long-term research programs in south-eastern Australia, with research themes that focus on developing ways to improve integration of native forest harvesting and biodiversity conservation, new approaches to enhance biodiversity conservation in plantations, the adoption of nature conservation principles in agricultural production areas, and improved fire management practices in reserves.