Contacts
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
The Chancellery (G34) 2.07
Griffith University Gold Coast Campus
Parklands Drive, Southport
Tel: 07 5552 9333
Fax: 07 5552 7333
email: nccarf@griffith.edu.au
Postal Address:
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
Griffith University Gold Coast Campus
QLD 4222, Australia
NCCARF Staff
Professor Jean Palutikof
Director
Tel: 07 5552 7734
Email: j.palutikof@griffith.edu.au
Prof. Jean Palutikof is Director of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility at Griffith University. She took up the role in October 2008, having previously managed the production of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report for Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), while based at the UK Met Office.
Prior to joining the Met Office, she was a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, and Director of the Climatic Research Unit, at the University of East Anglia, UK, where she worked from 1979 to 2004, and a Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Nairobi, Kenya, from 1974 to 1979.
Her research interests focus on climate change impacts, and the application of climatic data to economic and planning issues. She specialises in the study of changes in extreme events and their impacts, especially windstorm. She was a Lead Author for Working Group II of the IPCC Second and Third Assessment Reports. She has authored more than 200 papers, articles and reports on the topic of climate change and climate variability. Her proudest moment to date was attending the ceremony in 2007 at which the IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr Ida Fellegara
Research Fellow
Tel: 07 5552 7235
Email: i.fellegara@griffith.edu.au
Ida Fellegara joined the Facility in June 2009. Prior to this, she was the Education Officer with the CRC Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology for 9 months. During her time at the CRC SIIB, she organised education activities for the CRC SIIB post doc students, the general public and the sugar industry community. Ida has extensively tutored and lectured university students, as well as primary and secondary school students and the general public in marine and coral reef ecology, and other environmental subjects. Ida also worked at the Queensland Museum on the Seabed Biodiversity projects where she enjoyed identifying soft corals and gorgonians.
Ida obtained a PhD from the Centre for Marine Studies at The University of Queensland. Her PhD focused on the ecophysiology of corals living in a marginal environment (Moreton Bay, south east Queensland). She has published 2 papers from her PhD results and 2 related papers following her work during the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop on The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay.
Her research interests focus on: coral taxonomy and ecology, and coral species migration due to climate change. She has also worked on coral predators during her Master degree and the mulluscan fauna associated to sea grasses in the Mediterranean Sea during her Honours project.
Marie Waschka
Manager Knowledge Adoption
Tel: 07 5552 7735 or 07 3735 7786
Email: m.waschka@griffith.edu.au
Jenny Watson
Business & Operations Manager
Tel: 07 5552 7239
Email: j.watson@griffith.edu.au
Frank Stadler
Research Coordinator
Tel: 07 5552 7268
Email: f.stadler@griffith.edu.au
Frank Stadler joined NCCARF in August 2008. Before this he provided freelance education and consultancy services to educational and natural history organisations. His services included school in- and excursions, National Science Week programs, curatorial and exhibition design services and consultancy services to the Botanic Garden of Adelaide.
Frank holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours from Macquarie University and in 2000 was awarded the Macquarie University Bill Cantwell Prize for outstanding achievements in Honours research. He investigated plant-herbivore relationships under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and the symbiotic relationship between a sessile hydroid and its intertidal marine snail host.
Frank also brings extensive curatorial and project management experience to this position. From 1999-2002 he curated the Biological Sciences Museum at Macquarie University and from 2006-2007 the public program at the Tweed River Art Gallery. In these positions, Frank maintained natural history and art collections, curated exhibitions, organised a conference and oversaw a busy events program.
Daniel Stock
Research Coordinator
Tel: 07 5552 7225
Email: d.stock@griffith.edu.au
Daniel Stock joined the Facility in October 2009. Prior to joining the Facility he was the National Lantana Best Practice management Officer and worked for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. In this position he oversaw the production of the Lantana Best Practice Management Manual and Decision Support Tool, a software system that advises landholders on best integrated solutions when tackling lantana, involving efficacy control rates, costs and benefits.
Daniel otained a PhD from Griffith University, Australia focussing on the competition between the environmental weed Lantana and sub-tropical rainforest in south-east Queensland to determine the forest's resilience to lantana invasion. He has published a book "The Dynamics of Lantana Invasion of Subtropical Rainforest: Can Subtropical Rainforest defend itself from the Environment Weed?"
His research interests focus on environmental weeds, rainforest ecology, rainforest invasion resilience and primary production extension.
Kerry Fitzgerald
Administration Officer
Tel: 07 5552 7326
Email: k.fitzgerald@griffith.edu.au
NCCARF Consortium Partner Contacts
Queensland Government
Mr Greg Withers
Executive Director, Office of Climate Change
Queensland Environment Protection Agency
Email: Greg.withers@climatechange.qld.gov.au
Ms Yolande Yorke
Executive Director, Policy and Legislative Reform
Strategic Policy Division
Department of Community Safety
Email: yolande.yorke@dsc.qld.gov.au
Griffith University
Professor Jan McDonald
Director, Climate Change Response Program
Griffith University
Email: jan.mcdonald@griffith.edu.au
Macquarie University
Professor Lesley Hughes
Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University
Email: lhughes@rna.bio.mq.edu.au
Queensland University of Technology
Professor Peter Grace
Director, Institute for Sustainable Resources
Queensland University of Technology
Email: pr.grace@qut.edu.au
University of Southern Queensland
Professor Roger Stone
Director, Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments
University of Southern Queensland
Email: stone@usq.edu.au
University of Sunshine Coast
Associate Professor Peter Waterman
Coordinator, Climate Change, Coasts and Catchments
University of Sunshine Coast
Email: pwaterma@usc.edu.au
James Cook University
Assoc Professor Steve Williams
Director - Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change
James Cook University
Email: stephen.williams@jcu.edu.au
Newcastle University
Professor Garry Willgoose
Director, Centre for Climate Impact Management
Newcastle University
Email: garry.willgoose@newcastle.edu.au
Murdoch University
Professor Neil Loneragan
Chair - Fisheries Science
Division of Science, Murdoch Unviersity
Email: n.loneragan@murdoch.edu.au
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