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 Biography
Research Description
Awards
Selected Publications
Professional Associations
Postdoctoral Staff
Students
Research Visitors Hugh, born in 1962, completed Applied Mathematics Honours at The University of Adelaide in 1984. After attaining a Rhodes Scholarship in 1984 Hugh completed his D.Phil at Oxford University in 1987. Postdoctoral research periods followed at Stanford University and the Australian National University (as a QEII Fellow). In 1991 he took a Lectureship, then Senior Lectureship, in Applied Mathematics at The UofA. In 1995 he was appointed Foundation Chair and Professor of the Department of Environmental Science at The University of Adelaide. In July 2000 Hugh took up a joint Professorship between the Departments of Zoology & Entomology, and Mathematics at The University of Queensland. Hugh was elected to The Australian Academy of Sciences in 2005 and has chaired many government committees over the past decade. Pure and applied population ecologyWe use mathematical and statistical tools to solve problems in ecology and conservation. Lab members range from empirical ecologists to mathematicians. Recent research successes include: producing the software that rezoned the Great Barrier Reef, a new theory of optimal monitoring, advances in metapopulation theory, tests of spatial population models, decision support tools for fire, weed and pest management, protocls for optimal monitoring and decsion support for setting global conservation priorities. Awards:Eureka Prize, awarded 1/6/1999Fellow of Australian Academy of Science, awarded 8/3/2005 Fenner Medal, awarded 1/3/2000 General Systems Medal, awarded 1/6/1903 Maths Society Medal, awarded 1/7/2001 Selected Publications:Martin TG, Kuhnert PM, Mengersen K, Possingham HP. (2005). The power of expert opinion in ecological models using Bayesian methods: Impact of grazing on birds ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 15: 266-280 2005 Gerber LR, Beger M, McCarthy MA, Possingham HP (2005). A theory for optimal monitoring of marine reserves ECOLOGY LETTERS 8 (8): 829-837 AUG 2005 McCarthy MA, Thompson CJ, Possingham HP.(2005). Theory for designing nature reserves for single species AMERICAN NATURALIST 165: 250-257 2005 Jonzen N, Pople AR, Grigg GC, Possingham HP. (2005). Of sheep and rain: large-scale population dynamics of the red kangaroo JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 74: 22-30 2005 Wilson KA, Westphal MI, Possingham HP, et al. (2005). Sensitivity of conservation planning to different approaches to using predicted species distribution data. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 122: 99-112 2005 Professional Associations:Chair of Biological Diversity Advisory Commitee - Federal Government Chair of Ministerial Advisory Committee on Biodiversity Hotspots - Federal Government Associate Editor - Ecology Letters Birds Australia, Research and Conservation Committee member Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Postdoctoral Staff:
ELKIN Che - The University of Queensland Students:
CAIRNS Benjamin - PhD Research Visitors:Prof. Jim Haefner, Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Utah State University, USA Dr Henrik Andren, wildlife and landscape ecology, Grimso field station USFZ, Sweden Prof. Sahotra Sarka, systematic biodiversity conservation and restoration planning, University of Texas, USA Prof. Shripad Tuljapurkar, population mathematics applied to the dynamics and evolution of human and natural populations, Stanford University, USA |
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