I was born in South Australia (SA) and I’ve never lived elsewhere, except for holidays – I looooove holidaying in new places overseas. So, while many of the members of our group have exciting worldly backgrounds, I’m ‘just South Australian’. I don’t say that as a bad thing, I’m very attached to this wonderful state. I just mention it as geographical-temporal context.

But sometimes I do wish SA was a bit cooler and wetter.

The defining thread common to most of my work, is trying to translate research into meaningful, usable information. This has seen me work with a range of satellite and airborne data and spatial analyses. Most often I work with high temporal-frequency satellite imagery, that allows me to look at how a landscape (or region) has changed over time.

I’ve worked on coastal ocean productivity, seagrass mapping and change over time, soil erosion risk, bush-fire/wild-fire detection and mapping, wetland inundation regimes, arid river vegetation dynamics, mound spring (desert oasis) vegetation, and much, much more.

In each case I strive to understand the system-managers needs, and extract information relevant to their management needs.

Also I teach an Earth Observation course!