Contributors

Pius Gregory

Yawuru Traditional Owner; Kimberley Biocultural Conservation Specialist at WWF-Australia's Broome office, Indigenous Knowledge

Yawuru Traditional Owner; Kimberley Biocultural Conservation Specialist at WWF-Australia's Broome office, Indigenous Knowledge Pius is a Yawuru Traditional Owner, with many years of experience as country manager, looking after desert and sea country. He currently works for WWF as the Biocultural Conservation Specialist based in Broome.

Peng Bi

Professor, School of Public Health, University of Adelaide

Professor, School of Public Health, University of Adelaide Dr Peng Bi is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Adelaide. Dr. Bi’s main research interest is the environmental health, climate change, infectious diseases, emergency public health event response and population health. Professor Peng Bi has contributed to the fields of environmental epidemiology, ecosystem health and infectious disease epidemiology. He has wide research experience in identifying and managing environmental health problems, including the impact of climate change on population health. Additionally, his ecology and health approach has been applied to spatio-temporal disease patterns in various ecosystem health situations. His most significant contributions to the field are his research work on climate change and its impact on population health including communicable and non-communicable diseases and work-related injuries and illnesses in occupational settings, both in Australia and overseas. He has established a solid track record and publications in the field of communicable diseases, particularly those which are climate sensitive such as food borne, mosquito borne and rodent borne diseases. His recent research activities focus on climate change adaptation in vulnerable communities including older people, outdoor workers and CALD communities. He also undertakes research projects in One Health area. He is a Fellow of The Academy of The Social Sciences in Australia.

Peter Kirkpatrick

Honorary Associate Professor, University of Sydney

Honorary Associate Professor, University of Sydney Peter Kirkpatrick is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Discipline of English and Writing at the University of Sydney. He has published widely in Australian literary studies and cultural history, and is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently The Hard Word (2021). His other books include The Sea Coast of Bohemia: Literary Life in Sydney’s Roaring Twenties (2nd ed. 2007), and The Wild Reciter: Poetry and Popular Culture in Australia 1890 to the Present (forthcoming 2024).

Pascale Lubbe

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, University of Otago

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, University of Otago I am a molecular ecologist interested in exploring the ways environmental change facilitate and engender evolutionary change in animals. A geneticist by training, I interpret both ancient and modern DNA in light of geological and palaeontological evidence to draw conclusions about palaeoenvironments and the organisms in them. My early work investigated the relationships between squirrels and the seasonality of their primary food source. Most of my work to date investigates the impacts of the Pleistocene Ice Age on New Zealand's endemic bird species; it was on this that my PhD was focused. Presently, I am studying the evolutionary and phenotypic histories of New Zealand and New Caledonian geckos as a postdoctoral fellow. All of my investigations are ultimately concerned with the lessons we can learn from the past that shed light on the future of organisms in a rapidly changing, human-dominated future.

Paul Wignall

Professor of Palaeoenvironments, University of Leeds

Professor of Palaeoenvironments, University of Leeds Professor Paul Wignall lectures in palaeontology and sedimentology. He obtained his first degree at the University of Oxford and his PhD at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Professor Tony Hallam and has been a lecturer at Leeds since 1989. He has collaborated with numerous colleagues both nationally and internationally, especially at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), during his wide ranging field expeditions. Wignall has published over 240 research articles and 4 books,including: The Worst of Times" How Life on Earth Survived 80 Million Years of Extinctions, published by Princeton University Press and enjoys investigating a very broad spectrum of topics that range from flood basalt eruptions to palaeoecology. He has supervised nearly 40 PhD students and received several awards including the Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Model of the EGU and the Wolfson Merit Award from the Royal Society. He has served on the REF panel, been editor of several geological journals, been president of several geological societies and appeared in over a dozen science documentaries.

Patrick R. Lowenthal

Professor of Educational Technology, Boise State University

Professor of Educational Technology, Boise State University Patrick R. Lowenthal is a Professor of Educational Technology at Boise State University. He specializes in designing and developing online learning environments. His research focuses on how people communicate using emerging technologies—with a specific focus on issues of presence, identity, and community--in online learning environments.