A few of our research interests:

Tropical Urban and Regional Planning

• Urban design, urban energy use, hazard planning, residential and community development, Third WQorld self help housing schemes, Indigenous communities

Environmental change and landscape processes:

• land classification and vegetation mapping at Jenolan Caves
• hillslope stability in tower karst at Ipoh, Perak State, Malaysia

Natural resource management, environmental management:

• managing and monitoring impacts of rainforest access
• rainforest conservation principles and management
• cave process studies at Jenolan and Wombeyan Caves
• Molecular tracing of spectacled flying-fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) movements in rainforests and orchards of wet tropical Queensland

Conservation of marine wildlife and their habitats:

• distribution and habitat use of dugongs (information on dugongs from GBRMPA)
  
• status of dugong populations (The Dugong (Dugong dugon) Status Reports and Action Plans for Countries and Territories in Its Range)
  

Effects of fishing on the environment:

• fisheries modelling
• reef line fishing
• estuary and inshore fishing
• social impact assessment of changing commercial access to Queensland fishing.