Staff & Students
Academic staff
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| 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
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


