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Climate & energy

About

Our researchers are actively contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions through innovative, interdisciplinary research and policy-relevant advice drawing on expertise across climate science, climate adaptation, energy, environmental monitoring and management, and sustainable development.

Projects

The Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics (WALD) sits within the Fenner School of Environment & Society, and combines satellite observations, field data and prediction models to measure, monitor and forecast natural hazards, natural resources and the environment.

Student intake

Open for Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD students

People

This research looks at options for more effective conservation of freshwater ecosystems for the benefit of people and nature.

Developing machine learning algorithms to identify forest structural characteristics from earth observation data on a regional scale, Australia

Student intake

Open for Honours students

People

The Fenner School has a number of projects that examine bushfires – how it behaves, its effects on the landscape and ecosystems, and how we can monitor and manage it in natural and built environments.

Student intake

Open for Bachelor, Honours, Masters, PhD students

People

Are you a student looking for an outstanding PhD opportunity? Are you an industry professional who is open to undertaking a PhD project while retaining employment and salary benefits? 

Student intake

Open for PhD students

People

An opportunity exists for a PhD scholar to join and work on an awarded ARC linkage project.

Student intake

Open for PhD students

People

  • Dr Reza Fazeli
  • Dr Hedda Ransan-Cooper

Members

Academic staff

Distinguished Professor

Associate Professor Ian Fry stands in front of a native shrub at the Fenner School and looks at the camera. He is wearing a suit and a string of shells around his neck.

Associate Professor

Affiliate

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Tim Baynes looks at camera and wears a blue suit

Honorary Associate Professor

Suzi Bond cups a butterfly in her hands

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Honorary Professor

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Clem Davis

Honorary Lecturer

Emeritus Professor

Joelle Gergis

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Articles

We are all about wicked problems.

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Snow gums (Eucalyptus pauciflora) thrive in cooler, wetter conditions. But as temperatures warm, these iconic trees are being threatened by drought, fire and disease.

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Experts say city’s expansion has put more people at risk because homes are being built on flood-prone land.

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Australia’s long-lasting climate wars offer three painful lessons we shouldn’t ignore this time around.

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We’ve known about the risk of floods to the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley for a long time. Yet successive state governments have failed to properly mitigate its impact. Indeed, recent urban development policies by the current NSW government will multiply the risk.

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SECRET documents reveal the NSW Water Minister has ignored the warnings of department staff about proposed changes to the state's floodplain harvesting rules, which may not be compliant with the state government's own Water Management Act.

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