Staff & Students

Academic staff

Dr Waqar Ahmad r Guy Boggs Dr Diane Pearson
Dr Waqar Ahmad
Senior Lecturer, RS
Phone: (08) 8946 6805
waqar.ahmad@cdu.edu.au
Dr Guy Boggs
Senior Lecturer, GIS
Phone: (08) 8946 7138
guy.boggs@cdu.edu.au
Dr Diane Pearson
Senior Lecturer, GIS
Phone: (08) 8946 6046
diane.pearson@cdu.edu.au
Update on Waqar    Update on Guy     Update on Diane

Research staff

Rohan Fisher
Research Associate (Eastern Indonesian Projects)
Phone: (08) 8946 6673
Rohan.Fisher@cdu.edu.au 

Stefan Maier
Principal Research Fellow
Phone: (08) 8946 7631
Stefan.Maier@cdu.edu.au 

Ron Ninnis
Research Associate (GIS)
Phone: (08) 8946 6704
ron.ninnis@cdu.edu.au

Juno Rouwenhorst
Research Associate (GIS)
Phone: (08) 8946 7412
Juno.Rouwenhorst@cdu.edu.au

Dan McIntyre
Research Associate
Phone: 0431 710 833
Dan.McIntyre@cdu.edu.au

 

Collaborative staff and research associates

Stefan Maier

Email: Stefan.Maier@cdu.edu.au
Principal Research Fellow

David Howe

Email: david.howe@nt.gov.au
Adjunct Professor

PhD students

Graeme Armstrong

PhD Student
Email: graeme.armstrong@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: The environmental correlates of seed production in Triodia spp.

Tim Whiteside
PhD Student
Email: tim.whiteside@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Determination of land units using multi-sourced RS & GIS

Gillian McCloskey
PhD Student
Email: gillian.mccloskey@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Erosion and channel change in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory

Dan McIntyre
PhD Student
Email: daniel.mcintyre@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Mapping and monitoring Patterson’s curse using Remote Sensing

Muhammad Nawaz
PhD Student
Email: muhammad.nawaz@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Sediment source identification in Mangla Reservoir, Pakistan: integrating geochemical tracing, remote sensing and GIS

Philipe Puig
PhD Student
Email: Philippe.Puig@ewlsciences.com.au
Thesis: The role of fuzzy logic in GIS spatial modeling

Farha Sattar
PhD Student
Email: farha.sattar@students.cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Development of RS/GIS Based Framework to Quantify Gully Erosion in Sub-Catchment of Daly River.

Jai Sleeman
PhD Student
Email: jai.sleeman@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Modelling whale shark distributions on Ningaloo Reef with remote sensing and GIS

Benjamin Sparrow
PhD Student
Email: Ben.Sparrow@nt.gov.au
Thesis: Hyperspectral vegetation mapping in Central Australia

Frank Van Der Sommen
PhD Student
Email: frans.vandersommen@bigpond.com
Thesis: A spatio-temporal synthesis of climatic and edaphic ecological drivers and regulators, contributing to cyclone risk in natural and anthropogenic, monsoonal landscapes of the NT

Andrew Edwards
PhD Student
Email: andrew.edwards@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Spectral characterisation of burn severity in north Australian tropical savanna woodlands

Thuyet Bui
PhD Student
Email: thuyet.bui@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Use of remote sensing and geographical information systems to investigate environmental impacts of coastal shrimp farming in North Vietnam

Sushana Karki
PhD Student
Email: Sushana.Karki@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Vegetation Dynamics and Channel Change in Daly River Catchment

Masters students

Rohan Fisher
MSc Student
Email: Rohan.Fisher@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Forest cover change analysis in the Kupang Regency of West Timor using a Landsat image time series (1972-2007)

James Boyden
MSc Student
Email: james.boyden@environment.gov.au
Thesis: Landscape assessment of the environmental weed, para grass (Urochloa mutica (Forssk.) T.Q. Nguyen), on the Magela Creek floodplain, Kakadu National Park

Sarah Fischer
MSc Student
Email: sarah.fischer@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: The effect of fire on the ecology of Grey-crowned Babblers, Pomatostomus temporalis?

Juno Rouwenhorst
MSc Student
Email: juno.rouwenhorst@students.cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Land cover change and coastline evolution in Caraulun catchment, Timor-Leste

Philip Hickey
MSc Student
Email: Philip.Hickey@cdu.edu.au
Thesis: Weed mapping in the Greater Darwin Area using RS data