Professor Mark Burgman
Mark Burgman is Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conservation Biology. As well as giving a keynote address on The quality of reasoning in the intelligence game, Mark will also be running a workshop on Uniting risk analyses and structured decision making at this year's conference.
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Dr Emily Nicholson
Before joining Deakin University in 2015, Emily Nicholson was a Centenary Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, a Marie Curie Fellow at Imperial College London, and a postdoc at Princeton University.
Emily will give a keynote address on Assessing risks to biodiversity in a changing world at this year's conference. |
Dr Bruce Marcot
Bruce Marcot is a research wildlife biologist with the Ecosystem Process and Function Research Program of U.S. Forest Service in Portland, Oregon, USA. He received a Ph.D. in Wildlife Science at Oregon State University. Bruce will be giving a keynote on Crafting Bayesian networks from expert knowledge.
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Associate Professor Andrew Robinson |
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Fiona Fidler is a psychologist with a phD in philosophy of Science, whose time is split between the School of Biosciences and the School of Historial and Philosophical Studies, at the University of Melbourne.
Fiona will be running a workshop on Transparency, reproducibility and open science at this year's conference. |
Ascelin Gordon works as a Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group within the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT. Ascelin will be co-presenting the workshop on Transparency, reproducibility and open science at this year's conference, together with Fiona Fidler.
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Andrew Robinson is Director of CEBRA and reader and associate professor in applied statistics. Andrew focuses on ways of making and using measurements, with particular interests in both biosecurity and forestry. This topic carries him through applications of sampling theory, experimental design, statistical modeling, simulation, risk analysis, and decision making.
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Professor Chris Riley
Chris Riley is a practicing veterinary specialist and multi-species, multidisciplinary researcher with qualifications spanning physics, veterinary science, biochemistry and business. He has a research stream investigating the risks posed by the human animal-bond as it pertains to tertiary education, and the transport of large animals.
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Chris Peace
Chris Peace was born and educated in the UK. He has a BSc (Hons) Environmental Health and MSc Risk Management (both from Aston University), taught risk management part-time at Massey University and is researching the effectiveness of risk assessments at Victoria University in Wellington. He has worked in a variety of roles in New Zealand and internationally.
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Dr Cindy Hauser
Cindy Hauser is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, affiliated with CEBRA. Her research focuses on survey design for environmental management and has found recent application in the hawkweed eradication program, malleefowl and predator monitoring, regeneration of grazed woodlands, and modelling woody plant growth.
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Professor Steve Maguire |
Professor Cynthia Hardy |
Decky Junaedi |
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Steve Maguire is Professor of Strategy & Organization in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research focuses on technological, organizational and institutional change driven by novel risks to health or the environment. He will be presenting his research on how risks to organizations shape the construction of novel risks, conducted with Professor Cynthia Hardy (U-Melbourne & U-Cardiff).
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Cynthia Hardy is Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and Professor at Cardiff Business School. Her research interests revolve around discourse, power, and risk. She will present her research on the organizing of risk conducted with Professor Steve Maguire of McGill University, funded by the Australian Research Council and the Canadian Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council.
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Decky Junaedi is a PhD student of the School of Biosciences at The University of Melbourne. His interests focus on trait-based studies and management of invasive plant species. Decky will be presenting his project about utilising traits to differentiate the escaped from non-escaped botanic gardens' exotic collection into adjacent native forests in Indonesia at this year's conference.
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Dr Abbey Camaclang |
Dr William Dixon |
Emily Hudson |
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Abbey Camaclang is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Australian National Environmental Science Programme’s Threatened Species Recovery Hub at Monash University. Her research focuses on the use of decision tools and she is currently working on identifying optimal strategies for managing multiple threats to alpine and subalpine peatlands in Victoria.
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William Dixon is a risk analyst working in the public sector. He holds a PhD in environmental risk analysis and has over 20 years work experience in both government and private sectors. His primary research areas are in environment, health and safety and regulatory compliance with a focus on uncertainty and decision making.
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Emily Hudson is a PhD student of the Sydney School of Veterinary Science at The University of Sydney. She is currently investigating the likelihood and impacts of a potential rabies incursion in the domestic dog populations on northern indigenous communities in Australia. Emily is the recipient of this year's student travel scholarship.
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Dr Chris Culane |
Dr Paul Mwebze |
Associate Professor Jan Hayes |
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Chris Culnane is a research fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include privacy, cyber security, and applied cryptography. More recently he, Dr Vanessa Teague, & Dr Ben Rubinstein, were the team that in September 2016 recovered supplier IDs in the 10% MBS/PBS longitudinal dataset.
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Paul Mwebaze is a Research Scientist and Economist at the CSIRO. Previously, Paul was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) and also worked as an economist with the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. He holds a Masters and PhD in Agricultural Economics. His current research focuses on the economics of biosecurity, agriculture, fisheries and the valuation of environmental goods and services.
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Jan Hayes has 30 years’ experience in safety and risk management. With a background in both engineering and sociology, she is Program Leader for the social science research activities of the Energy Pipelines Co-operative Research Centre based at RMIT University. She will be presenting on whether public safety is impacted by the multiple regulatory regimes for gas pipelines and networks.
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Victoria Hemming |
Casey Visintin |
Emma Bennett |
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Victoria Hemming is a PhD candidate at the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis at the University of Melbourne. Her research explores the substantial and often unavoidable reliance on expert judgement within conservation science, including risk and decision-making. During her PhD she has aimed to identify how such judgements are derived, how informative, reliable, and transparent they are, and how they could be improved through the application of the IDEA protocol for structured expert judgement.
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Casey Visintin is trained as both an architect and wildlife conservationist and his research explores impacts of the built environment on ecological systems. He develops quantitative models to perform risk assessment and support environmental decision making. His work draws from several areas of expertise including species distribution modelling, transportation modelling, risk theory, data science, wildlife management and conservation planning.
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Emma Bennett is a first year PhD student from Monash University working with Joslin Moore and Cindy Hauser. Her research thesis is centred on the use of conservation detection dogs as a tool in the search for rare species and how this compares to existing survey methods.
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Professor Tom Kompas |
Peter Kamstra |
Jessica Rowland |
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Tom Kompas is a Professor of Environmental Economics and Biosecurity, a Chief Investigator in CEBRA, and a Group Director of the Centre for Environmental and Economic Research at the University of Melbourne. He is also the Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Biosecurity and Environmental Economics at ANU and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.
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Peter Kamstra is a PhD student in the School of Geography at The University of Melbourne. He is currently investigating the relationship between individual's risk perceptions and their behaviour on high-risk rocky coasts, with an emphasis on qualitative GIS-based analysis.
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Jessica Rowland is currently undertaking a PhD at Deakin University. Her research focuses on improving the guidelines for selecting and using indicators for assessing functional decline for ecosystem risk assessment, including the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Ecosystems.
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Dr Tom Beer |
Hong Jin |
Calvin Lee |
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Tom Beer, DSc, PhD, is the Director of Safe Systems Solutions Pty Ltd and a past president of SRA-ANZ. During 1995 he was science adviser to the Environment Protection Agency in Canberra and undertook a risk review of national environmental priorities. He was a member of an IPCC Expert Group, and also a lead author for the IPCC Special Report on Technology Transfer. The IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Hong Jin is a senior food scientist at Food Standards Australia New Zealand and a past treasurer of SRA-ANZ. In the past 15 years, Hong completed a number of food safety risk assessments involving foodborne microbial pathogens and prions.
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Calvin Lee is a PhD student in the Centre of Integrative Ecology at Deakin University. His research focuses on improving our use of data derived from satellite remote sensing within the context of ecosystem risk analysis. In particular, he is interested in developing spatially-explicit assessments which are easily repeatable and improved on as we increase our ecological knowledge.
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Dr Craig Phillips |
Dr Annemarie Christophersen |
Claire McKee |
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Craig Phillips is a senior scientist with the Biocontrol & Biosecurity group at AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand. He is an insect ecologist whose research is focused on reducing the rate at which new pests are becoming established in NZ, and minimising the impacts of those that are already present. His work spans genetics, biological control, modelling and risk analysis.
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Annemarie Christophersen is a Hazard and Risk Scientist with GNS Science in New Zealand. Her background is in statistical seismology. She has coordinated the earthquake forecasting during the recent earthquake responses in New Zealand. Annemarie will present results for a Bayesian network for volcano monitoring and eruption forecasting and guidelines for expert elicitation in natural hazard and risk assessment.
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Claire McKee works for the Compliance Division in the Department of Agriculture. The biosecurity function occurs in a high volume, dynamic and complex physical and electronic environment. From a non data science perspective, Claire will offer a contemporary insight into the practice of regulatory intelligence, where behaviour, conscious regulatory opponents and data analytics meet.
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Alex Zarebski |
Dr Danny Spring |
Dr Ans Vercammen |
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Alex Zarebski is a Ph.D. student in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, primarily working on the development of algorithms for predicting the spread of infectious diseases, in particular, influenza. Alex also assists in the analysis of infection experiments and consults on the development of educational technology.
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Daniel Spring is a Research Fellow at the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, University of Melbourne, and is affiliated with CEBRA. His research focuses on biosecurity (particularly fruit flies, fire ants and weeds) and biodiversity conservation. Recently, he has begun to merge these areas of interest by considering the application of biosecurity as a biodiversity conservation tool on islands.
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Ans Vercammen is a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, focussing on the application of “collective intelligence” in environmental decision making. Ans worked as a cognitive neuroscientist for a decade before turning to conservation and environmental psychology.
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Dr Kevin Korb |
Professor Cindy Jardine |
Dr Sam Nicol |
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Kevin Korb is the Director of the CREATE BARD Project at Monash
University. His research includes machine learning, Bayesian networks, philosophy of science and computer simulation. He is the author of "Bayesian Artificial Intelligence" (2011) and "Evolving Ethics" (2010), co-founder of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, the Australasian Bayesian Network Modelling Society (ABNMS) and Bayesian Intelligence Pty Ltd. |
Cindy Jardine is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada with research interests in the area of health risk communication. Her passion is conducting research in partnership with Indigenous communities to empower youth and increase their resilience. She is also part of an international research group called The Monarch Collaboration which seeks to improve the health of migrant and refugee populations through immunisation.
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Sam Nicol (Research Scientist, CSIRO Biodiversity and Ecosystem Knowledge Services) is an ecological modeller and decision scientist who specialises in decision techniques to allocate limited natural resources over time to achieve environmental goals. He combines decision-making techniques from mathematics, economics and artificial intelligence with skills in small-group facilitation and ecological modelling to generate practical solutions for managers. His research helps to logically formulate decisions, highlight trade-offs and prioritise actions.
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Mohammad Abolbashari |
Rayson Lim |
Dr Thang Cao |
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Mohammad Abolbashari is a PhD student with the School of Business, UNSW Canberra. Mohammad holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Industrial Engineering. His research focus includes performance measurement and management through Bayesian Networks, organizational procurement, and the application of Decision Networks and Multi-Criteria Decision Making approaches.
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Rayson Lim is a PhD student from the National University of Singapore and his research focuses on food web theory and trophic ecology of freshwater fish communities. He’s currently investigating the effects of bio-manipulation on the food web dynamics in reservoirs and how it can be extended to conservation and ecosystem management.
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Thang Cao is a research scientist from Defence Science Technology Group. His research focuses on the use of mathematical and stochastic modelling, Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Bayesian Network techniques to provide evidence based decision analysis to Australian Department of Defence.
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John Nielsen |
Katie Collins |
Dr Peter Nadebaum |
John Nielsen is a biosecurity entomologist with the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) who specialises in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Diptera (flies, including mosquitoes). He has worked in a variety of roles across the biosecurity environment since 2005, including as an invertebrate diagnostician, plant health policy officer and secretariat for the Consultative Committee for Emergency Plant Pests. He currently coordinates mosquito monitoring across all first points of entry in Australia.
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Katie Collins is a PhD student in the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires at the University of Wollongong. Her research focuses on developing models and methods to improve bushfire risk management planning. During her PhD, she has investigated the spatial pattern of bushfire ignitions, the relationship between ignition causes and house losses, the factors that influence the containment of bushfires and mitigation strategies to reduce bushfire risk.
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Peter Nadebaum, a Senior Principal of GHD, is an accredited Environmental Auditor. He founded the Australasian Land and Groundwater Association, and was a founding member and past Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE). He continues to have significant involvement in CRC projects relating to developing a National Remediation Framework, understanding the role of community consultation, and developing guidance on priority contaminants.
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Associate Professor Craig Dalton |
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Margaret MacDonell is an environmental systems engineer at Argonne National Laboratory, adjunct professor at Northwestern University and president of SRA-International. She assesses technologies and health risks for projects ranging from radiological and chemical site cleanup to dioxin, mercury emissions from gold processing, cumulative risks from multiple stressors, vector-borne diseases in a changing climate, and participatory science.
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Martine Barons is the Director of the Applied Statistics & Risk Unit within the Statistics Department at the University of Warwick. She uses a variety or tools for decision support (such as expert elicitation), with applications to food security, pollination services, biosecurity, crises management and policy design.
Martine previously worked in the Centre for Complexity Science, Warwick, undertaking PhD research on nonlinear models for complex healthcare datasets. |
Craig Dalton is a public health physician with Hunter New England Health, NSW and conjoint associate professor at the University of Newcastle. He has a 20 year experience of public health risk assessment and communication associated with environmental and infectious disease incidents. He believes a radical restructuring of governmental response to contamination incidents is required.
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Associate Professor Tony Pooley |
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Aaron Dodd is a risk analyst and Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis. Aaron works on complex biosecurity and emergency management applications. His work integrates concepts from ecology, epidemiology, risk analysis, decision theory and economics to inform biosecurity service delivery. He has extensive experience in government and regulatory environments.
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Tony Pooley is a respected risk adviser in the resources industry on business and safety risk. He is also an Associate Professor in risk management at UniSA.
He is also a member of the NOPSEMA Advisory Board advising the Federal Minister for the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, and Relevant State Ministers, on offshore safety and environmental management. |
Jeremy Silver is a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include modelling pollen and air pollution, data assimilation and satellite monitoring of atmospheric composition. He has a PhD in data assimilation and air quality modelling from Aarhus University, Denmark, and has previously worked in bioinformatics and biostatistics.
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