Dr Simon Benger - Senior Lecturer and Director of Honours Programmes

Research: Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing of Environment, Water Resources, Rivers and Wetlands; GeoHealth

Dr John Bennett - Senior Lecturer  

Research: Air/sea interface interactions; aeolian sand transport; water energy balance; shallow water circulation

Associate Professor Richard Bentham - Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Director of Studies, Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health Practices

Research: Legionella ecology in control in soils and water systems; Bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soils; Rhizoremediation of hydrocarbon and pesticide contaminated soils; Anaerobic digestion of solid wastes; Human health risk assessment

Associate Professor Erick Bestland - Senior Lecturer

Research: Ancient Terrestrial Ecosystems & Fossil Soils; Environmental Hydrology and Biogeochemical Cycles; Geomorphology and Pedology

Dr Beverley Clarke - Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies, Master of Environmental Management 

Research: Integrated Coastal Management; Australian Coastal Policy Development; Community participation in environmental management; Development of performance indicators for participation; Environmental Impact Assessment; Natural Resource Management Policy; Natural Resource Management Program evaluation

Professor Peter Cook - Professor of Hydrology, Deputy Director of National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) 

Research: Hydrology, ecohydrology, isotope hydrology and unsaturated zone flow. Key research focus in the use of environmental tracers to quantify groundwater flow rates and the integration of tracer and hydraulic methods. Aquifers recharge, quantification of groundwater discharge to streams and wetlands, and assessment of groundwater dependent ecosystems; chlorofluorocarbons as a groundwater dating tool; likely impacts of groundwater extraction on ecosystems.

Professor Nancy Cromar - Professor of Environmental Health and Deputy Dean, School of the Environment

Research: Health-related water microbiology; health risk assessment and management of environmental health issues; recreational water qualtiy; implementing and assessing drinking water programs;

Cecile Cutler - Lecturer

Research: Migration and settlement patterns particularly in Australia but also overseas; the changing political and economic situation in Asia, especially Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Indonesia; improving and developing innovative University teaching strategies particularly the successful application of flexible delivery techniques; regional development policies in Australia, UK and USA

Dr Caecilia Ewenz -  Lecturer and Director of Studies, Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science)

Research: Micro Meteorology, Urban Heat Islands, The physics of the fog at Edinburgh Airport, South Australia

Associate Professor Gour Dasvarma - Associate Professor of Demography and Director of Graduate Program in Applied Population Studies

Research: Women's health (including reproductive health); child mortality; fertility and family planning; HIV/AIDS research; human resource development and population policies

Samantha De Ritter - Lecturer

Associate Professor John Edwards - Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Associate Dean Teaching and Learning

Research: Illegal drug laboratories and associated chemical and societal risk assessment; assessment and remediation of properties contaminated with chemicals. Chemical incidents and chemical weapons - evidence-based approaches to reducing toxic effects. Pesticide exposures in farming communities and potential adverse effects.Toxicity of anemone venoms and their role in clownfish colonisation.

Professor Howard Fallowfield - Professor of Environmental Health

Research: Health aspects of water quality across a range of aquatic environments. Design and operation of high rate lagoons for abattoir waste treatment; application of algae and bacteria to wastewater treatment with focus on Waste Stabilisation Ponds; effects of biofilms in drinking water treatment and distribution systems; contaminant loads entering the metropolitan Adelaide coastal environment; algal biotechnology aimed at exploiting commercially algal biomass.

Stephen Fildes - Lecturer and Director of Studies, Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma of Geographical Information Systems

Research: GIS: remote sensing and digital image analysis; Sparse vegetation community mapping using imaging spectrometry; Environmental condition assessment of semi-arid rangelands using remote sensing; Estimating evapotranspiration and groundwater recharge using remote sensing; Knowledge-based expert systems and the integration of remotely sensed and GIS data; Land-cover classification and change detection analysis; Biodiversity and conservation

Professor Dean Forbes - Professor of Urban Geography and Depty Vice-Chancellor (International and Communities)

Research: Cities, universities and knowledge-based development; Strengthening urban slum upgrading and urban governance in Southeast Asian cities

Associate Professor Clive Forster - Associate Professor of Urban Geography and Director of Studies, Bachelor of Arts (Major in Geography)

Research: Employment, labour force participation and the journey to work in Australian cities; Polarisation and disadvantage in Australian cities; Urban policy; The geography of sport

Dr Huade Guan - Senior Lecturer

Research: Hydrometeorology (precipitation, evapotranspiration, urban heat island) and Hydrology (groundwater recharge, environmental tracers, water quality)

Associate Professor Jorg Hacker - Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Chief Scientist and Director of Airborne Research Australia

Research: Planetary boundary layer; Aircraft instrumentation; Airborne laser scanning; Airborne hyper-spectral scanning; Evapo(transpira)tion from vegetated surfaces measured by airborne and ground based techniques; Structure of the convection in the PBL; Sea breeze circulations; Inhomogeneous planetary boundary layer; Airborne air quality monitoring; Flight testing

Professor Iain Hay - Professor of Human Geography and ALTC Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Research: Economic, cultural and social geography; Geographies of domination and oppression; Geographies of the super-rich; Qualitative methods and research ethics; Geographical education

Dr John Hutson - Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies, Bachelor of Arts (Major in Earth Sciences)

Research: Soil physics and chemistry, water and solute movement in soils, salinity and the fate of agricultural chemicals. Spatial groundwater recharge patterns, the impact of soil and land management on nutrient and pesticide leaching to groundwater; salinity control in irrigation; and water and chemical dynamics in acid sulfate soils.

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Research: Coastal & estuarine oceanography; Transport time-scale analysis (e.g. flushing time) and marine connectivity; Coastal upwelling & upwelling in shelf-break canyons; Mixed-layer dynamics & oceanic convection; Suspended sediment dynamics (e.g. turbidity currents); Deep-ocean processes & mixing; Pollutant dispersal (e.g. desalination brine)

Dr Mark Lethbridge - Lecturer and Director of Studies, Bachelor of Geographical Information Systems

Research: Application of spatial and population modelling

Professor Andrew Millington - Professor of Land Change Science and Dean, School of the Environment 

Research: Vegetation remote sensing, land change science, biogeography.

Dr Meryl Pearce (Churchill) - Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies, Bachelor of Arts (Major in Environmental Studies)

Research: Water supply and conservation in Aboriginal communities in South Australia; attitudes towards water restrictions.

Dr Vincent Post - Lecturer

Research: : Interactions between fresh and saline groundwater, coastal hydrogeology and seawater intrusion; Groundwater/surface water interaction, including submarine groundwater discharge; Palaeohydrology; Reactive transport modelling and code development.

Dr Udoy Saikia - Senior Lecturer in Applied Population Studies

Research: Gender; Population and Development; Development in Transitional Societies; Sustainable Development; Globalisation; Capacity Development; Women's Empowerment; HIV/AIDS research and training; population policies; demographic and fertility analysis

Professor Craig Simmons - Professor of Hydrogeology and Director of National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT)

Research: Includes variable density groundwater flow phenomena; salinity, salt interception, disposal basins, floodplain hydrology; groundwater/surface water interaction; groundwater dependent ecosystems; groundwater discharge in coastal aquifers / seawater intrusion / coastal hydrogeology; aquifer storage and recovery; fractured rock hydrogeology / regolith hydrology; contaminant, stochastic subsurface hydrology; porous media flow phenomena; groundwater flow and solute transport modelling.

Dr Jonathan Sobels -  Lecturer

Research: Social impacts of drought, low flows on the Lower Murray; research into immigration-population nexus, out to 2050.

Gertrude Szili - Lecturer

Research: Critical Human Geography, including: urban governance and entrepreneurialism; environmental ethics and politics; corporate environmentalism; sustainable development; place making and city marketing; urban and regional planning; qualitative research methods; Geography education; media analysis; Ecolinguistics.

Dr Michael Teubner - Lecturer 

Research: Salinity intrusion in coastal aquifers; computational fluid dynamics.

Associate Professor Adrian Werner - Associate Professor in Hydrogeology and Director of Studies, Graduate Diploma in Water Resource Management and Master of Water Resource Management

Research: Seawater intrusion and saline water up-coning; Coastal aquifer hydrology and tidal impacts;
Surface water-groundwater interaction; Vadose zone processes; Riparian zone hydrology; Groundwater Resource Management

Dr MD Younus  - Lecturer

Research: Research Methods and Project Design, Conduct and Management, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change, Environmental Impact Assessment, Uban Environment and
 Health Inequality. 

Volmer Berens

Graham Green

Dr Hugo Gutierrez-Jurado

Research: Ecohydrology, field instrumentation, and remote sensing based terrain analyses.

Dr Pauline Gueutin

Mark Keppel

Dr Andrew Love

Dr Andrew McGrath

Stacey Priestley

Dr Neville Robinson

Dr Harpinder Sandhu

Research: Theory and practice of ecosystem services; Land use/cover change and impacts on ecosystem services; Socio-economic valuation of ecosystem services and climate adaptation in agro-ecosystems; Poverty and biodiversity interactions;
Payments of ecosystem services

Dr Vinodkumar

Research: Land-atmosphere interactions; Urban Heat Island project focusing on the study of factors influencing the urban climate using field observation data, remote sensing data and numerical meteorological modeling.

Daniel Wohling

Associate Professor Judy Carman

Lawrence Burk

Robert Keane

Jodie Walker

Rob Hunter - Manager, School Administration

Kaye Hampton - Administrative Officer (Marketing and Outreach)

Kristy Johns - PA to Dean, Deputy Dean and School Manager 

Cheree Metcalfe - Finance Officer 

Suzanne Myers - Administrative Officer (Earth Sciences) 

Julie Nixon - Administrative Officer (Projects)