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Let us introduce ourselves
We live in the tropics, we work in the tropics. We invite you to partner with us in addressing the significant challenges and opportunities in research and education that exist across the tropical world.
TESS membership is drawn from academic staff, associates and post graduate students from JCU's four Colleges.
Centre Executive
Professor Susan Laurance
Centre Director
Rainforest Ecologist, College of Science and Engineering
Susan studies the impacts of human land use and climate change on biodiversity. Her research pertains directly to the restoration of degraded ecosystems and the conservation of endangered species.
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Professor Lucas Cernusak
Deputy Centre Director
Plant Physiologist, College of Science and Engineering
My research seeks to understand the environmental and biological controls on carbon dioxide and water vapour exchange between plants and the atmosphere.
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Distinguished Professor Lin Schwarzkopf
Centre Executive
Distinguished Professor, Vertebrate Ecologist
Lin researches invasive species biology and control, and effects of anthropological activities such as grazing and introduced vegetation on vertebrate ecology, habitat use and predator-prey dynamics.
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Professor Conrad Hoskin
Centre Executive
Professor, Zoology and Ecology, College of Science & Engineering
My research and teaching interests focus on biodiversity: what's out there, how we discover and describe it, how it arises and adapts through time, and how we can conserve it.
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Dr Han She Lim
Centre Executive
Lecturer in Hydrology, College of Science and Engineering
My research interests are in the hydrological response behaviour of tropical catchments, especially catchments which experience distinct rainfall seasonality.
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Dr Alex Cheesman
Centre Executive
Senior Research Fellow, College of Science and Engineering (JCU) and the University of Exeter (UK)
I am a plant eco-physiologist, soil scientist and National Geographic Explorer interested in the dynamic interaction of tropical systems in a changing world.
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