Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Dr Knauer is an environmental modeler interested in vegetation responses to ongoing environmental and climate change. He did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. In 2019 he moved to Canberra where he worked at the CSIRO Climate Science Centre. Since 2021 he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University. He is interested in how plant physiological processes affect the climate system and how plants respond to a changing climate themselves.
Associate Professor of French History, University of Southampton I am a historian of modern France, specialising in the entwined cultural, gender and political histories of the twentieth century. Although I began my career focusing on the cultural and gender politics of the far right, my current research draws on perspectives from the history of health and medicine to explore natural health cures and the emergence of self-help across the early to mid-twentieth century period. I first explored the interrelation of gender and politics in my doctoral research on fascist writers during the Occupation of France, 1940-1944. I was struck by how systematically parts of the collaborationist press filtered and refined their political and historical views through notions of masculinity and femininity. I expanded this engagement with masculinity by exploring the imagined connection between national decline and male physical failure in a monograph about the world of French physical culture, 1918-1945. My doctoral studies also nurtured a scholarly interest in the instrumentalization of memory, and this resulted in the publication of an edited collection for Routledge in 2013.
Professor of French language, French and Francophone Literature, University of Windsor Dr Judith Sinanga-Ohlmann is a graduate of the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Queen’s University. After her MA degree in semiotics and literary sciences at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, she continued her studies at Queen’s University, where she obtained her PhD degree in Francophone literatures. She is a professor at the University of Windsor, where she teaches Francophone literatures, feminist literature and cultures from sub-Saharan Africa. Her research interests include diaspora, exile, social justice and feminist literature.
Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University Physical processes in the coastal ocean are highly variable in space and time and play a critical role in coupled biological and chemical processes. From events lasting several hours to days on through inter-annual and decadal scales, the variability in the fluid itself structures marine ecological systems. My approach is to apply ocean observing technologies that now sample across these important time and space scales to better understand the physical ocean that structures marine ecosystems. I am involved in many research and education programs that range in scope from storm intensity, offshore wind, and local water quality monitoring off the NJ coast; regional fisheries along the US east coast; and environmental studies of polar ecosystems in the coastal waters surrounding Antarctica. Consequently, this new knowledge has relevancy to broader stakeholder communities with interests in the coastal ocean. Working through partnerships across these stakeholder groups, my research is collaborative and supports both science and application. Through these partnerships I am able to frame relevant scientific hypotheses and efficiently translate the output to better management and monitoring. Growing up in New Jersey, my interest in the physics of the ocean began along the shores of Barnegat Bay. After receiving my Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, I returned to New Jersey and began my research career at Rutgers. Now I look forward to addressing new science and, working through partnerships, translating that science into applications that benefit the many stakeholders with interests in the coastal ocean.
Senior Research Fellow, University of Canterbury My research explores how primary industries can transition to sustainability. I work particularly closely with Māori corporations and land trusts that are leading Aotearoa's transition.
Doctorant en paléoécologie, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) Professeur-chercheur en écologie forestière, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
