Outreach

Selected as Australia’s nominee for the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE Prize; 2019)

Shortlisted (top six) Robert May Prize, best paper by an early career researcher in 2018 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution for REMAP: A cloud-based remote sensing application for generalized ecosystem classifications.

Winner of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Young Professional Award (2016)

Winner of the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, awarded to the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Team (2015)

Future Leader, University of Queensland Future Leader program (2015)

Future Leader, World Forum on Ecosystem Governance (2015)

Finalist of the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, awarded to the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Team (2014)

Certificate of Merit in Environmental Planning & Conservation by Planning Institute of Australia (2010)

Associate Editor - Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2020 - )

Associate Editor - Remote Sensing (2021 - )

IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Committee for Scientific Standards (2015 - )

Red List of Ecosystems Thematic Group, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM, 2014 - )

Coastal Ecosystems Thematic Group of the IUCN CEM (2014 - )

Chief Investigator ARC Linkage A global standard for the status of Wetlands of International Importance (2019 - 2023)

Chief Investigator ARC DECRA Assessing risks to coastal ecosystems with new earth observation models (2019 - 2022)

Chief Investigator ARC Linkage Ecosystem risk assessment: informing responses to the global biodiversity crisis (2018 - 2022)

Commonwealth Essential Environmental Measures Saltmarsh & Mangroves working group (2017 - 2018)

Commonwealth Essential Environmental Measures Migratory Shorebird working group (2017 - 2018)

GEOBON Future Earth Ecosystem Function working group (2016 - 2018)

GEOBON Freshwater Wetlands working group (2016 - 2019)

Australian Ecosystem Science Council Ecosystem Surveillance working group (2016 - 2018)

American Geophysical Union (AGU, 2012 -)

Society for Conservation Biology (SCB, 2010 - )

Shorebird Working Group, Partnership for the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (2010 - 2015)

Ecological Society of Australia (ESA, 2009 - )

UNEP-WCMC Global Saltmarsh Network (2013 - 2014)

Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme (A-Class Bird Banding License)

CEARAC Strategy for Marine Biodiversity Conservation Workshop, Tokayama, Japan (2020)

Google Global Mapping and Applications Partnership, Google Mountain View, USA (2019)

Centre of Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Australia (2018)

Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia (2018)

Australian Tropical Science and Innovation Precinct, James Cook University, Australia (2018)

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia (2018)

Ecosystem risk assessment symposium, EcoTas, Australia (2017)

Tsinghua University Beijing, Centre for Earth System Science, China (2016)

Beijing Normal University Beijing, School of Life Sciences, China (2016)

Ecosystem risk assessment symposium, Conservation Biology Oceania, Australia (2016)

Coasts under sea level rise symposium, Conservation Biology Oceania, Australia (2016)

Ramsar STRP symposium, Intecol International Wetlands Conference, China (2016)

Impacts on mega deltas by reclamation symposium, Intecol Wetlands Conference, China (2016)

University of Sydney, School of Life and Environmental Sciences. Sydney, Australia (2015)

UNSW, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science. Sydney, Australia (2015)

Birds Queensland. Brisbane, Australia (2015)

Beijing Forestry University, Department of Nature Conservation. Beijing, China (2014)

China Intertidal Conservation Meeting. Beijing, China (2014)

University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology. Cambridge, UK (2014)

Birdlife International. Cambridge, UK (2014)

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The Lodge, UK (2014)

East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Meeting of Partners. Alaska, USA (2013)

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Washington D.C., USA (2013)

East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Meeting of Partners. Palembang, Indonesia (2012)

Birds Queensland. Brisbane, Australia (2011)

East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership Meeting of Partners. Siem Reap, Cambodia (2010)

Birds Queensland. Brisbane, Australia (2009)

2019, Melbourne, Australia, Alpine Red List of Ecosystems workshop

2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 29th International Congress on Conservation Biology

2019, Google Mountain View, USA, First Meeting of the Global Land Cover Mapping Partnership

2018, Hobart, Australia, Macroalgae Working Group: Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)

2018, Adelaide, Australia, Australian Marine Science Association Annual Conference

2018, Cambridge, UK, Mangrove Restoration Potential, The Nature Conservancy

2018, Sydney, Australia, Australian Saltmarsh and Mangrove Research Network

2018, Cambridge, UK, Valuing saltmarsh workshop, The Nature Conservancy

2017, Hunter, Australia, EcoTas, Australian Ecological Society joint conference

2017, Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Myanmar National Ecosystem Assessment: Initial workshop, WCS

2017, Cambridge, UK, Mangrove Restoration Potential, The Nature Conservancy

2017, San Francisco, USA, Google Earth Engine User Summit, Google

2017, Brisbane, Australia, Global Tidal Flat Mapping Workshop, University of Queensland

2017, London, UK, Global Ecosystem Typology Workshop, Kings College London

2016, San Francisco, USA, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2016, San Francisco, USA, Google Earth Engine Workshop, Google

2016, Hawaii, USA, IUCN World Conservation Congress

2016, Hawaii, USA, IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Committee for Scientific Standards

2016, Changshu, China, INTECOL International Wetlands Congress

2016, Melbourne, Australia, IUCN Red List of Ecosystems workshop, University of Melbourne

2015, Melbourne, Australia, IUCN Red List of Ecosystems planning workshop, Deakin University

2015, Beijing, China, World Forum on Ecosystem Governance

2015, Montpellier, France, 27th International Congress on Conservation Biology

2015, Dublin, Ireland, Red List of Ecosystems Collaboration Workshop, Trinity College

2015, Helsinki, Finland, Red List of Ecosystems Committee for Scientific Standards Meeting

2014, Sydney, Australia, IUCN World Parks Congress

2014, Sydney, Australia, Google Earth Engine Workshop, Google Sydney

2014, Beijing, China , Intertidal Conservation Meeting (government workshop)

2014, Alaska, USA, East Asian-Australasian Flyway Meeting of Partners 7

2014, Cambridge, UK, Joint Species and Ecosystems Commission Meeting, IUCN

2013, San Francisco, USA, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

2013, Auckland, NZ, EcoTas, Australian Ecological Society joint conference

2013, Brisbane, Australia, Species Distribution Modelling by Prof Jane Elith (5 days)

2013, Brisbane, Australia, Marxan train-the-trainer course

2012, Sumatra, Indonesia, East Asian-Australasian Flyway Meeting of Partners 6

2012, Bangalore, India , Society for Conservation Biology (Asia) Conference

2012, Bangalore, India , Student Conference for Conservation Science

2011, Auckland, NZ, 25th International Congress for Conservation Biology

2011, Auckland, NZ, Getting the best out of experts by Prof Mark Burgman

2011, Brisbane, Australia, Graph Theory Workshop by Dr Eric Treml

2011, Cairns, Australia, Australian Ornithological Congress

2010, Cambodia, East Asian-Australasian Flyway Meeting of Partners 5

2010, Melbourne, Australia, Bayesian Statistics with Prof Mick McCarthy

2009, Brisbane, Australia, INTECOL International Congress of Ecology

2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Introduction to Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Short Course, International Congress for Conservation Biology

2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Risks to Asian Ecosystems Symposium, International Congress for Conservation Biology

2016, Hawaii, USA, IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Conservation Campus, IUCN World Conservation Congress

2015, Beijing, China, IUCN Red List of Ecosystems 3-day Short Course, Chinese Academy of Sciences