Dr. Nina Hinko-Najera

Dr. Nina Hinko-Najera

Nina is an ecosystem scientist based at Creswick campus. She is fascinated by trees and forests and how they function and interact with their environment. Her primary research interests are in forest carbon dynamics from carbon flux processes at stand level to carbon...
Dr. Erica Marshall

Dr. Erica Marshall

Erica is a quantitative ecologist interested in bringing together novel modelling methods to help solve complex policy and management decisions. Erica completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2020 which focused on simulating the impacts of policy decisions...
Dr. Sarah McColl-Gausden

Dr. Sarah McColl-Gausden

Sarah is a fire scientist currently working as a fire risk analyst. Her current research interests include integrating fire simulation modelling with other modelling frameworks that may better consider the implications for biodiversity under changing fire regimes,...
Dr. Jamie Burton

Dr. Jamie Burton

Jamie is a fire scientist interested in landscape flammability. She is particularly interested in understanding what drives flammability at a range of spatial scales, using a mixture of laboratory and field methods, to better predict flammability. Jamie submitted her...
Dr. Saumya Wanniarachchi

Dr. Saumya Wanniarachchi

Saumya is an Ecologist who completed her PhD in fire Ecology at the University of Melbourne in 2023. Her thesis examined the response of ground dwelling small mammals with respect to fire for two different resource components: diets and habitat structure, at both the...