Research Officer
Phone: +61 (0)2 612 54669
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: John.Stein@anu.edu.au

A forestry graduate from ANU, John returned to CRES in 1987 after some years at CSIRO modelling crop growth and climatic suitability of tree species. His research focuses on development of methods for spatial analysis of environmental data, with application to his central area of interest, conservation of biodiversity. In particular, interpolation of elevation has required substantial efforts because of its fundamental importance in developing abiotic data sets of terrain, climatic and surface drainage parameters. These have then been used to create frameworks for assessing biotic data and their interactions with land cover and disturbance data. Applications have included bioclimatic profiling of species to predict their distributions, derivation of flow paths to calculate indicators of river disturbance, and classification of catchments as environmental domains.