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Penny van Oosterzee

Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University

Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University Penny is Director of Biome5, a University Fellow at Charles Darwin University and Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University, and a partner in an ARC research project on cost-effective restoration for biodiversity and carbon outcomes. Her research focuses on ecosystems and climate change abatement. She is currently researching policy associated with the biodiversity and ecosystem services, restoration ecology, one health approaches and climate change. Penny is also a science writer, with several national awards including two Eureka Science Prizes. One of these books "Where World Collide: The Wallace Line" is now available as an ebook. Her book, with Mike Morwood, titled "The Discovery of the Hobbit: The Scientific Breakthrough that Changed the Face of Human History" won the inaugural John Mulvaney Award for Archaeology in 2007. Her latest book "The Natural History and Field Guide to the Top End" was recently published in August 2014.