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The Team
The BIOMON team is made up of members from the School of Environmental and Life Sciences (SELS) and the School of Information and Physical Sciences (IPS) at the University of Newcastle, as well as SAPHI Engineering and several government and private environmental agencies with financial support from the NSW Environmental Trust.
| Meet the team! | |
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| Assoc. Prof. Andrea Griffin | |
| Andrea is a behavioural ecologist and wildlife conservation scientist whose research interests focus on understanding how animals adapt in response to environmental change and using this knowledge to assist wildlife conservation and management. She has developed behavioural interventions to improve the reintroduction success of endangered marsupials and explored species interactions between invasive and native birds. She is studying the movement and foraging ecology of estuarine shorebirds using the largest global, centrally coordinated automated telemetry array in the world, Motus, and is leading an interdisciplinary team developing AI acoustic wildlife monitoring. |  |
| Prof. Stephan Chalup | |
| Professor Stephan Chalup conducts research in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He received his Ph.D. in Computing Science in 2002 from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, where he studied at the Machine Learning Research Centre. Before he came to Australia, he completed postgraduate studies at the Master's level in mathematics with neuroscience at the University of Heidelberg and pursued undergraduate studies at the University of Konstanz. Stephan is currently the head of the Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Research Group (IMLRG), one of Newcastle’s longest-running research groups. |  |
| Prof. Matthew Hayward | |
| Matt's research interests include the conservation ecology of threatened species, the factors that threaten them and the methods we can use to effectively conserve them. Matt has researched these conservation issues in Australia, South Africa and Poland on marsupials, rodents, reptiles, invertebrates, ungulates and large predators. Matt has published on predator-prey interactions, reintroduction biology, population dynamics, spatial ecology, intra-guild competition, diet, ecosystem services, conservation effectiveness and status assessments. Matt also has experience in conservation management (reintroduction, pest animal control, conservation fencing, fire management) and he has sat on several Australian threatened species recovery teams and is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (Marsupials and Monotremes; Translocation specialist groups). |  |
| Dr. Alex Callen | |
| Dr Alex Callen is a conservation biologist in the School of Environmental and Life Science at the University of Newcastle. Her research focuses on the response of threatened amphibian populations to multiple environmental stresses including stream pollution, disease and invasive predators, including within the Australian conservation system. Central to this research is her interest in how community science and improved science communication within the community can drive positive change to minimise environmental stress on plants, animals and ecosystems, leading to improved biodiversity protection. |  |
| Eric Johns | |
| Eric is the lead engineer in the BIOMON project. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Electrical in 2016 before completing a Masters of Professional Engineering, Electrical and Electronics. He currently works at SAPHI Engineering as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). |  |
| Ysobel Sims | |
| Ysobel is a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Newcastle where she works in the area of zero-shot learning for environmental audio contexts, with applications in wildlife conservation. She is a senior team member of the NUbots Robotics Research Group and Competition Team, a multidisciplinary group focused on developing autonomous humanoid soccer-playing robots that compete annually in the international RoboCup competition. |  |
| Oliver Kelly | |
| Oliver is a graduate from the University of Technology, Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology (Honours). He is a PhD candidate with the University of Newcastle, researching the drivers of decline for threatened frog species within the NSW National Park Reserve system. Oliver is greatly interested in the role community science will play in future conservation efforts. |  |
