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Professor Pierre Horwitz

Honorary Professor

Staff Member Details
Email: p.horwitz@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8689-7888

Pierre is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Science.

Background

  • 2011: Professor, Edith Cowan University
  • 2002-2011: Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University
  • 1995-2001: Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
  • 1992-1994: Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
  • 1987-1991: Lecturer, University of Tasmania

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the Australian Society for Limnology (1983-)
  • Member Ecological Society of Australia (1995-)
  • Member National Tertiary Education Union (1992-)
  • Member International Association for Ecology & Health (2003-)
  • Member Bush Heritage Australia (1998-)
  • Member, Royal Society of Western Australia (1987-)
  • Member of the International Association of Astacology (1987-)

Awards and Recognition

Other

  • Founding Co-Editor, EcoHealth journal (ISI-listed)
  • Has held senior positions in the Australian Society for Limnology (ASL; including as its President for a two year term 1999-2001); in Bush Heritage Australia Inc., a philanthropic organisation; in the International Association for Ecology and Health (elected as the founding Vice-President in 2006 and served for four years); and as a Founding Director of the Blackwood River Foundation.
  • Appointed as theme coordinator (Wetlands and Human Health) for the Ramsar International Convention on Wetlands’ Scientific and Technical Review Panel for the 2009-2012 triennium, and has been selected for participation in other international scientific missions.
  • Dr Horwitz has also been recognised for excellence in postgraduate supervision, and has examined 16 PhD theses in the last 12 years.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Aquatic Ecology and Management
  • Health and Ecology; Ecosystem Health
  • Water and wetlands management
  • The formation, degradation and management of organic rich soils; the effects of fire regimes on soil and water quality
  • Taxonomy, biogeography and conservation status of aquatic invertebrates.
  • The effects of forestry, fire, agriculture and urbanisation on aquatic faunas and aquatic processes
  • Developing general indicators for the relationships between human health, community vitality and biophysical conditions of the environment
  • Developing community participation and involvement in aquatic environmental issues, natural resource management issues
  • Using narratives for landscape restoration and community capacity building in rural and regional areas

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, 1986.
  • Bachelor of Science Honours, The University of Western Australia, 1980.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Adhikari, S., Anthony, S., Baleinamau, P., Coriakula, J., Daurewa, T., Devi, R., Gavidi, S., Horwitz, P., Hunter, EC., Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Lalamacuata, M., Mailautoka, K., Mangubhai, S., Naivalu, K., Naivalulevu, T., Naivalulevu, V., Nasim, N., Naucunivanua, S., Negin, J., Van Nimwegen, P., Ratu, A., Ravoka, M., Tukana, A., Van De Vossenberg, J., Wilson, D., Thomas, J. (2024). An assessment of latrine front-end characteristics and associated surface E. coli indicated faecal contamination in rural Fiji. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31(40), 52948-52962. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-024-34668-x.
  • Jupiter, SD., Jenkins, A., Negin, J., Anthony, S., Baleinamau, P., Devi, R., Gavidi, S., Latinne, A., Mailautoka, KK., Mangubhai, S., Naivalu, K., Naivalulevu, T., Naivalulevu, V., Nasim, N., Naucunivanua, S., Nelson, S., Qauqau, I., Ratu, A., Ravoka, M., Thomas, J., Tukana, A., Van Nimwegen, P., Wakwella, A., Wenger, A., Wilson, D., Horwitz, P. (2024). Transforming place-based management within watersheds in Fiji: The watershed interventions for systems health project. PLOS Water, 3(7), article number e0000102. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000102.
  • Kelly, A., Tschakert, P., Lawrence, C., Horwitz, P., Bourgault, C., Ellis, N. (2024). Place attachment and lived values in Western Australian communities. Applied Geography, 172(2024), article number 103424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103424.
  • Galalizadeh, S., Morrison-Saunders, A., Horwitz, P., Silberstein, R., Blake, D. (2024). The cooling impact of urban greening: A systematic review of methodologies and data sources. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 95(2024), article number 128157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128157.

2023

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Leviston, Z., Dandy, J., Horwitz, P., Drake, D. (2023). Anticipating Environmental Losses: Effects On Place Attachment And Intentions To Move. Journal Of Migration And Health, 7(2023), article number 100152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100152.
  • Miotlinski, K., Tshering, K., Boyce, M., Blake, D., Horwitz, P. (2023). Simulated Temperatures Of Forest Fires Affect Water Solubility In Soil And Litter. Ecological Indicators, 150(2023), article number 110236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110236.
  • Tschakert, P., Du Coudray, CB., Horwitz, P. (2023). Walking Journeys Into Everyday Climatic-Affective Atmospheres: The Emotional Labour Of Balancing Grief And Hope. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2023(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231173202.
  • Nasim, N., Anthony, S., Daurewa, T., Gavidi, S., Horwitz, P., Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Liu, S., Mailautoka, K., Mangubhai, S., Naivalu, K., Naivalulevu, T., Naivalulevu, V., Naucunivanua, S., Negin, J., Ravoka, M., Tukana, A., Wilson, D., Thomas, J. (2023). Understanding On-Site Sanitation In Rural Fiji: Where Definitions Of Sanitation Back-Ends Differ. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 9(7), 1913-1931. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ew00685e.
  • Tshering, K., Miotlinski, K., Blake, D., Boyce, M., Bath, A., Do Carmo Carvalho, A., Horwitz, P. (2023). Effect Of Fire On Characteristics Of Dissolved Organic Matter In Forested Catchments In The Mediterranean Biome: A Review. Water Research, 230(2023), article number 119490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.119490.
  • Voisin, R., Horwitz, P., Godrich, S., Sambell, R., Cullerton, K., Devine, A. (2023). What goes in and what comes out: a scoping review of regenerative agricultural practices. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2023(article in press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2023.2270441.

Reports

  • Lette, E., Horwitz, P. (2023). Annual Report for the Gnangara Mound Environmental Monitoring Programme - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Wetland Monitoring for Spring 2022. Final Report to the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. Joondalup WA. Edith Cowan University.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Nelson, S., Thomas, J., Jenkins, A., Naivalu, K., Naivalulevu, T., Naivalulevu, V., Mailautoka, K., Anthony, S., Ravoka, M., Jupiter, S., Mangubhai, S., Horwitz, P., Abimbola, S., Negin, J. (2022). Perceptions of drinking water access and quality in rural indigenous villages in Fiji. Water Practice and Technology, 17(3), 719-730. https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2022.022.
  • Horwitz, P. (2022). Wetlands as social ecological systems, and relationality in the policy domain. Marine and Freshwater Research, 2022(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF22018.
  • Nelson, S., Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Horwitz, P., Mangubhai, S., Abimbola, S., Ratu, A., Naivalulevu, T., Negin, J. (2022). Predicting climate-sensitive water-related disease trends based on health, seasonality and weather data in Fiji. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 6(May 2022), article number 100112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2022.100112.
  • Henrique, K., Tschakert, P., Bourgault Du Coudray, C., Horwitz, P., Krueger, K., Wheeler, A. (2022). Navigating loss and value trade-offs in a changing climate. Climate Risk Management, 35(2022), article number 100405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100405.
  • Poelina, A., Wooltorton, S., Blaise, M., Luz Aniere, C., Horwitz, P., White, PJ., Muecke, S. (2022). Regeneration time: Ancient wisdom for planetary wellbeing. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 38(3-4), 397-414. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2021.34.
  • Bracknell, C., Horwitz, P., Ryan, T., Marshall, JW. (2022). Performing kayepa dordok living waters in Noongar boodjar, South-Western Australia. River Research and Applications: an international journal devoted to river research and management, 38(3), 404-411. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3868.

Reports

  • Lette, E., Horwitz, P. (2022). Annual Report for the Gnangara Mound Environmental Monitoring Programme - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Wetland Monitoring for Spring 2021. Final Report to the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. Joondalup WA. Edith Cowan University.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Lette, E., Burnham, Q., Lawler, N., Horwitz, P., Boyce, M., Broadhurst, D., Duffy, R., Koenders, A. (2021). Detecting sex-related changes to the metabolome of a critically endangered freshwater crayfish during the mating season. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 8(16 April 2021), Article number 650839. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.650839.
  • Blake, D., Boyce, M., Stock, W., Horwitz, P. (2021). Fire in Organic-Rich Wetland Sediments: Inorganic Responses in Porewater. Water, Air and Soil Pollution: an international journal of environmental pollution, 232(3), Article number 101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-021-05013-6.

Reports

  • Lette, E., Dawkins, K., Horwitz, P. (2021). Gingin Brook Groundwater Dependent Aquatic Fauna Studies Phase II Report. Australia. Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.
  • Kavazos, C., Buller, G., Horwitz, P., Froend, R. (2021). Review of 2030 Proposed Revised Water Thresholds - Gnangara Groundwater System. Australia. Department of Water and Environmental Protection.
  • Lette, E., Horwitz, P. (2021). Annual Report for the Gnangara Mound Environmental Monitoring Programme – Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Wetland Monitoring for Spring 2020. Final Report to the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. Joondalup WA. Edith Cowan University.
  • Blake, D., Horwitz, P., Zwickl, K. (2021). Wildfire In Yanchep National Park Wetlands: Postfire Effects, Water Chemistry and Macroinvertebrate Response. Australia. Department of Water and Environmental Protection.

2020

Book Chapters

  • McFarlane, R., Barry, J., Cissé, G., Gislason, M., Gruca, M., Higgs, K., Horwitz, P., Nguyen, G., O'Sullivan, J., Sahu, S., Butler, C. (2020). SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being - Framing Targets to Maximise Co-Benefits for Forests and People. Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts On Forests And People (72-107). Cambridge University Press. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/11982.
  • Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P. (2020). Layers of Meanings in Our Landscapes: Hiding in Full View. Critical Global Semiotics: Understanding Sustainable Transformational Citizenship (96-108). Routledge. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/7557.

Journal Articles

  • Blake, D., Nyman, P., Nice, H., D'souza, F., Kavazos, C., Horwitz, P. (2020). Assessment of post-wildfire erosion risk and effects on water quality in south-western Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 29(3), 240-257. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18123.
  • Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P., Poelina, A., Palmer, D. (2020). Sharing a place-based indigenous methodology and learnings. Environmental Education Research, 26(7), 917-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2020.1773407.

Reports

  • Lette, E., Dawkins, K., Horwitz, P. (2020). Gingin Brook Groundwater Dependent Aquatic Fauna Studies. Australia. Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.
  • Lette, E., Judd, S., Horwitz, P. (2020). Annual Report for the Gnangara Mound Environmental Monitoring Programme – Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Wetland Monitoring for Spring 2019. Final Report to the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation. Joondalup WA. Edith Cowan University.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Perina, G., Camacho, AI., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., Koenders, A. (2019). New Bathynellidae (Crustacea) taxa and their relationships in the Fortescue catchment aquifers of the Pilbara region, Western Australia. Systematics and Biodiversity, 17(2), 148-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2018.1559892.
  • Sambell, R., Andrew, L., Godrich, S., Wolfgang, J., Vandenbroeck, D., Stubley, K., Rose, N., Newman, L., Horwitz, P., Devine, A. (2019). Local Challenges and Successes Associated with Transitioning to Sustainable Food System Practices for a West Australian Context: Multi-Sector Stakeholder Perceptions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(11), Article number 2051. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16112051.
  • Serrano Gras, O., Lovelock, C., Atwood, TB., Macreadie, PI., Canto, R., Phinn, S., Arias-Ortiz, A., Bai, L., Baldock, J., Bedulli, C., Carnell, P., Connolly, RM., Donaldson, P., Esteban Pacheco, A., Ewers Lewis, CJ., Eyre, BD., Hayes, MA., Horwitz, P., Hutley, LB., Kavazos, C., Kelleway, J., Kendrick, GA., Kilminster, K., Lafratta, A., Shing, L., Lavery, P., Maher, DT., Marba, N., Masque Barri, P., Mateo, M., Mount, R., Ralph, PJ., Roelfsema, C., Rozaimi, M., Ruhon, R., Salinas Zapata, C., Samper-Villarreal, J., Sanderman, J., Sanders, CJ., Santos, I., Sharples, C., Steveb, AD., Cannard, T., Trevathan-Tackett, SM., Duarte, CM. (2019). Australian vegetated coastal ecosystems as global hotspots for climate change mitigation. Nature Communications, 10(1), article no.4313. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12176-8.
  • Larcombe, D., Van Etten, E., Logan, A., Prescott, S., Horwitz, P. (2019). High-Rise Apartments and Urban Mental Health—Historical and Contemporary Views. Challenges, 10(2), Article number 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe10020034.
  • Dandy, J., Horwitz, P., Campbell, R., Drake, D., Leviston, Z. (2019). Leaving home: Place attachment and decisions to move in the face of environmental change. Regional Environmental Change, 19(2), 615-620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01463-1.
  • Perina, G., Camacho, A., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., Koenders, A. (2019). The role of allopatric speciation and ancient origins of Bathynellidae (Crustacea) in the Pilbara (Western Australia): two new genera from the De Grey River catchment. Contributions to Zoology, 88(4), 452-497. https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-20191412.
  • Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Jenney, A., Rosa, V., Naucukidi, A., Prasad, N., Vosaki, G., Mulholland, K., Strugnell, R., Kama, M., Crump, J., Horwitz, P. (2019). Environmental foundations of typhoid fever in the Fijian residential setting. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(13), Article number 2407. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16132407.
  • Parkes, M., Allison, S., Harder, H., Hoogeveen, D., Kutzner, D., Aalhus, M., Adams, E., Beck, L., Brisbois, B., Buse, C., Chiasson, A., Cole, D., Dolan, S., Fauré, A., Fumerton, R., Gislason, MK., Hadley, L., Hallstrom, L., Horwitz, P., Marks, R., McKellar, K., Moewaka Barnes, H., Oke, B., Pillsworth, L., Reschny, J., Sanderson, D., Skinner, S., Steltia, K., Stephen, C., Surette, C., Takaro, T., Vaillancourt, C. (2019). Addressing the environmental, community and health impacts of resource development: Challenges across scales, sectors and sites. Challenges, 10(1), article no. 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe10010022.
  • Horwitz, P., Parkes, M. (2019). Intertwined strands for ecology in planetary health. Challenges, 10(1), article no. 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe10010020.
  • McFarlane, R., Horwitz, P., Arabena, K., Capon, A., Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Negin, J., Parkes, M., Saketa, S. (2019). Ecosystem services for human health in Oceania. Ecosystem Services: science, policy and pratice, 39(October 2019), Article Number 100976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100976.

2018

Book Chapters

  • Froend, R., Horwitz, P., Sommer, B. (2018). Groundwater Dependent Wetlands of the Gnangara Groundwater System (Western Australia). The Wetland Book II: Distribution, Description, and Conservation (1959-1966). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4001-3_110.
  • Froend, R., Horwitz, P. (2018). Groundwater Dependent Wetlands. The Wetland Book I: Structure and Function, Management, and Methods (1149-1154). Springer. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/5086.
  • Froend, R., Horwitz, P., Sommer, B. (2018). Groundwater Dependent Wetlands Ecosystems. The Wetland Book II: Distribution, Description, and Conservation (335-355). Springer. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/6420.

Journal Articles

  • Perina, G., Camacho, AI., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., Koenders, A. (2018). Understanding subterranean variability: the first genus of Bathynellidae (Bathynellacea, Crustacea) from Western Australia described through a morphological and multigene approach. Invertebrate Systematics, 32(2), 423-447. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS17004.
  • Jenkins, A., Horwitz, P., Arabena, K. (2018). My island home: Place-based integration of conservation and public health in Oceania. Environmental Conservation: an international journal of environmental science, 45(2), 125-136. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892918000061.
  • Kavazos, C., Huggett, M., Mueller, U., Horwitz, P. (2018). Bacterial and ciliate biofilm community structure at different spatial levels of a salt lake meta-community. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(10), article no. fiy148. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy148.
  • Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P. (2018). Living water: groundwater and wetlands in Gnangara, Noongar boodjar. Philosophy Activism Nature, 14(1), 5-23. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/6781.
  • Prasad, N., Jenkins, A., Naucukidi, L., Rosa, V., Sahu-Khan, A., Kama, M., Jenkins, K., Jenney, A., Jack, S., Saha, D., Horwitz, P., Jupiter, S., Strugnell, R., Mulholland, K., Crump, J. (2018). Epidemiology and risk factors for typhoid fever in Central Division, Fiji, 2014 – 2017: A case-control study. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 12(6), article no.e0006571. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006571.
  • Gan , H., Tan, MH., Lee, YP., Schultz, M., Horwitz, P., Burnham, Q., Austin, C. (2018). More evolution underground: Accelerated mitochondrial substitution rate in Australian burrowing freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 118(January 2018), 88-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.022.

2017

Book Chapters

  • Gudka, S., Horwitz, P., Reid, A., Armstrong, B., Marinova, D., Lawrence, C. (2017). Health and Wellbeing. Never Again: reflections on Environmental responsibility after Roe 8 (233-252). UWA Publishing. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/5022.

Journal Articles

  • Chapman, K., Boschetti, F., Fulton, E., Horwitz, P., Jones, T., Scherrer, P., Syme, G. (2017). Knowledge that Acts: Evaluating the Outcomes of a Knowledge Brokering Intervention in Western Australia’s Ningaloo Region. Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors, 60(5), 896-907. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-017-0917-1.
  • Prescott, S., Larcombe, D., Logan, A., West, C., Burks, W., Caraballo, L., Levin, M., Van Etten, E., Horwitz, P., Kozyrskyj, A., Campbell, DE. (2017). The skin microbiome: impact of modern environments on skin ecology, barrier integrity, and systemic immune programming. The World Allergy Organization Journal, 10(1), article number 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40413-017-0160-5.
  • Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P. (2017). The land still speaks: Ni katitj. Philosophy Activism Nature, 13(13), 57-67.
  • Huggett, M., Kavazos, C., Bernasconi, R., Czarnik, R., Horwitz, P. (2017). Bacterioplankton assemblages in coastal ponds reflect the influence of hydrology and geomorphological setting. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(6), article no. fix067. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fix067.
  • Kavazos, C., Huggett, M., Mueller, U., Horwitz, P. (2017). Biogenic processes or terrigenous inputs? Permanent water bodies of the Northern Ponds in the Lake MacLeod basin of Western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 68(7), 1366-1376. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF16233.

Reports

  • Judd, S., Brown, H., Horwitz, P. (2017). Habitat, water quality and macroinvertebrate assessment of Lake Chittering, Western Australia. Australia. Chittering Valley Land Conservation District Committee.

2016

Book Chapters

  • Horwitz, P., Parkes, M. (2016). Scoping Health Impact Assessment: ecosystem services as a framing device. Handbook on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessment (62-85). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478996.

Journal Articles

  • Jenkins, A., Jupiter, S., Mueller, U., Jenney, A., Vosaki, G., Rosa, V., Naucukidi, A., Mulholland, K., Strugnell, R., Kama, M., Horwitz, P. (2016). Health at the sub-catchment scale: Typhoid & its environmental determinants in Central Division, Fiji. Ecohealth, 13(4), 633-651. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-016-1152-6.

Conference Publications

  • Ko, SZ., Zhang, Z., Horwitz, P., Djajadikerta, H. (2016). Charting directions for economic development in Myanmar: A computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach on high quality education in labour-growth strategy. 2016 Conference Papers 19th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (1-24). Global Trade Analysis Project.

2015

Book Chapters

  • Finlayson, M., Horwitz, P., Weinstein, P. (2015). A synthesis: wetlands as settings for human health. Wetlands and Human Health (251-263). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9609-5_12.
  • Horwitz, P., Roiko, A. (2015). Ecosystem approaches to human exposures to pollutants and toxicants in wetlands: examples, dilemmas and alternatives. Wetlands and Human Health (75-94). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9609-5_5.
  • Finlayson, M., Horwitz, P. (2015). Human health and the wise use of wetlands – guidance in an international policy setting. Wetlands and Human Health (227-250). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9609-5_11.
  • Horwitz, P., Kretch, C., Jenkins, A., Hamid, AR., Burls, A., Campbell, K., Carter, M., Henwood, W., Lovell, R., Malone-Lee, LC., McCreanor, T., Moewaka-Barnes, H., Montenegro, R., Parkes, M., Patz, J., Roe, J., Romanelli, C., Sitthisuntikul, K., Stephens, c., Townsend, M., Wright, p. (2015). Contribution of biodiversity and green spaces to mental and physical fitness, and cultural dimensions of health. Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health: A State of Knowledge Review (200-220). World Health Organization.
  • Horwitz, P., Finlayson, M., Kumar, R. (2015). Interventions Required to Enhance Wetlands as Settings for Human Well-Being. Wetlands and Human Health (193-226). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9609-5_10.
  • Finlayson, M., Horwitz, P. (2015). Wetlands as settings for human health – the benefits and the paradox. Wetlands and Human Health (1-14). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9609-5_1.

Journal Articles

  • Richman, N., Bohm, M., Adams, S., Alvarez, F., Bergey, EA., Bunn, J., Burnham, Q., Cordiero, J., Coughran, J., Crandall, K., Dawkins, K., Distephano, R., Doran, N., Edsman, L., Eversole, A., Fureder, L., Furse, J., Gherardi, F., Hamr, P., Holdich, D., Horwitz, P., Johnston, K., Jones, C., Jones, J., Jones, R., Jones, T., Kawai, T., Lawler, S., Lopez-Mejia, M., Miller, R., Pedraza- Lara, C., Reynolds, J., Richardson, A., Schultz, M., Schuster, G., Sibley, P., Souty-Grosset, C., Taylor, C., Thoma, R., Walls, J., Walsh, T., Collen, B. (2015). Multiple drivers of decline in the global status of freshwater crayfish (Decapoda: Astacidea). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 370(1662), Article No. 20140060. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0060.
  • Wooltorton, S., Wilkinson, A., Horwitz, P., Bahn, S., Redmond, J., Dooley, J. (2015). Sustainability and action research in universities: Towards knowledge for organisational transformation. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 16(4), 424-439. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-09-2013-0111.
  • Sitthisuntikul, K., Horwitz, P. (2015). Collective Rituals as Meaningful Expressions of the Relationships between People, Water and Forest: A Case Study from Northern Thailand. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 36(1), 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2014.990365.
  • Kingsely, J., Patrick, R., Horwitz, P., Parkes, M., Jenkins, A., Massy, C., Henderson-Wilson, C., Arabena, K. (2015). Exploring Ecosystems and Health by Shifting to a Regional Focus: Perspectives from the Oceania EcoHealth Chapter. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(10), 12706-12722. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121012706.
  • Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P. (2015). Stories want to be told: Elaap Karlaboodjar. Philosophy Activism Nature, 11(2015), 3-11.

2014

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Carter, M., Horwitz, P. (2014). Beyond Proximity: The Importance of Green Space Useability to Self-Reported Health. Ecohealth, 11(3), 322-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-014-0952-9.
  • Patrick, MJ., Syme, G., Horwitz, P. (2014). How reframing a water management issue across scales and levels impacts on perceptions of justice and injustice. Journal of Hydrology, 519(PC), 2475-2482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.09.002.

2013

Books

  • Sommer, B., McGuinness, S., Froend, R., Horwitz, P. (2013). Assessing risks to groundwater dependent wetland ecosystems in a drying climate: an approach to facilitate adaptation to climate change. Adapting to climate change: a risk assessment and decision framework for managing groundwater dependent ecosystems with declining water levels, 84. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
  • Chambers, J., Nugent, G., Sommer, B., Speldewinde, P., Neville, S., Beatty, S., Chilcott, S., Eberhard, S., Mitchell, N., D'souza, F., Barron, O., McFarlane, D., Braimbridge, M., Robson, B., Close, P., Morgan, D., Pinder, A., Froend, R., Horwitz, P., Cook, B., Davies, P. (2013). Guidelines for use: Adapting to climate change: a risk assessment and decision making framework for managing groundwater dependent ecosystems with declining water levels.. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
  • Chambers, J., Nugent, G., Sommer, B., Speldewinde, P., Neville, S., Beatty, S., Chilcott, S., Eberhard, S., Mitchell, N., D'souza, F., Barron, O., McFarlane, D., Braimbridge, M., Robson, B., Close, P., Morgan, D., Pinder, A., Froend, R., Horwitz, P., Cook, B., Davies, P. (2013). Development and Case Studies: Adapting to climate change: a risk assessment and decision making framework for managing groundwater dependent ecosystems with declining water levels. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.

2012

Book Chapters

  • Wilcox, B., Aguirre, A., Horwitz, P. (2012). Ecohealth: Connecting Ecology, Health and Sustainability. New Directions in Conservation Medicine: Applied Cases of Ecological Health (17-32). Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

  • Blake, D., Lu, K., Horwitz, P., Boyce, M. (2012). Fire suppression and burnt sediments: effects on the water chemistry of fire-affected wetlands. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 21(5), 557-561. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF10125.
  • Burnham, Q., Koenders, A., Horwitz, P. (2012). The status of the critically endangered freshwater crayfi sh Engaewa pseudoreducta (Crustacea: Parastacidae) in south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 27(1), 45-54.
  • Bertzeletos, D., Davis, R., Horwitz, P. (2012). Importance of Lake MacLeod, northwestern Australia, to shorebirds: a review and update. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 95(1), 115-124.
  • Horwitz, P., Finlayson, C. (2012). Water and Health: on the notion of a healthy wetland. Human Evolution, 27(1-3), 65-69.

Reports

  • Horwitz, P., Finlayson, CM., Weinstein, P. (2012). Healthy wetlands, healthy people. A review of wetlands and human health interactions. Switzerland. Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands & the World Health Organisation.

2011

Book Chapters

  • Horwitz, P., Carter, M. (2011). Access to Inland Waters for Tourism: Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs. Water Policy, Tourism and Recreation: Lessons from Australia (52-66). Resources for the Future Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203128442.

Journal Articles

  • Horwitz, P., Finlayson, CM. (2011). Wetlands as settings for human health: Incorporating ecosystem services and health impact assessment into water resource management. BioScience, 61(9), 678-688. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.9.6.
  • Horwitz, P., Spini, L., Campbell, K., Thomas, RJ., Mulongoy, J. (2011). The relationship between water, health and global environmental change, as interpreted through five key Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 3(6), 520-526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2011.10.001.
  • Kumar, R., Horwitz, P., Milton, GR., Sellamuttu, S., Buckton, S., Davidson, N., Pattnaik, A., Zavagli, M., Baker, C. (2011). Assessing wetland ecosystem services and poverty interlinkages: a general framework and case study.. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 56(8), 1602–1621. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2011.631496.
  • Cromie, R., Davidson, N., Galbraith, C., Hagemeijer, W., Horwitz, P., Lee, R., Mundkur, T., Stroud, D. (2011). Responding to Emerging Challenges: Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1. Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, 14(3-4), 206–242. https://doi.org/10.1080/13880292.2011.626711.
  • Boschetti, F., Yves-Hardy, P., Grigg, N., Horwitz, P. (2011). Can we learn how systems work?. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 13(4), 47-62.

2010

Journal Articles

  • McCullough, C., Horwitz, P. (2010). Vulnerability of organic acid tolerant wetland biota to the effects of inorganic acidification. Science of the Total Environment, 408(8), 1868-1877.

Conference Publications

  • Horwitz, P. (2010). The conservation status of freshwater crayfish: the basis for concern, listing and recovery processes, and community involvement. Freshwater Crayfish 17: Papers from the Seventeenth International Symposium on Freshwater Crayfish (1-12). International Association of Astacology.

Reports

  • Reid-Piko, C., Crase, L., Horwitz, P., Butcher, R. (2010). Ecosystem Services and Productive Base for the Basin Plan. Wodonga, VIC. Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre.

2009

Book Chapters

  • Horwitz, P., Wardell-Johnson, G. (2009). Cultural Conservation Biology. Environmental Biology (559-577). Cambridge University Press.
  • Wardell-Johnson, G., Horwitz, P. (2009). The Science of Conservation Biology. Environmental Biology (539-558). Cambridge University Press.

Journal Articles

  • Sommer, B., Horwitz, P. (2009). Macroinvertebrate Cycles of Decline and Recovery in Swan Coastal Plain (Western Australia) Wetlands Affected by Drought Induced Acidification. Hydrobiologia: the international journal on limnology and marine sciences, 624(1), 191-203.
  • Parkes, M., Horwitz, P. (2009). Water, ecology and health: Ecosystems as settings for promoting health and sustainability. Health Promotion International, 24(1), 94-102.
  • Schultz, M., Smith, S., Horwitz, P., Richardson, A., Crandall, K., Austin, C. (2009). Evolution underground: A molecular phylogenetic investigation of Australian burrowing freshwater crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) with particular focus on Engaeus Erichson. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 50(3), 580-598.
  • Horwitz, P., Rogan, R., Halse, S., Davis, J., Sommer, B. (2009). Wetland Invertebrate Richness and Endemism on the Swan Coastal Plain,Western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 60(10), 1006-1020.
  • Blake, D., Hinwood, A., Horwitz, P. (2009). Peat fires and air quality: volatile organic compounds and particulates.. Chemosphere, 76(3), 419-423.

Conference Publications

  • Chapman, K., Horwitz, P., Scherrer, P., Northcote, J. (2009). Tourism research to tourism practice: The need for adaptive institutions in Western Australia's Ningaloo region. Proceedings of the 18th Annual CAUTHE conference. See change: tourism and hospitality in a dynamic world (8p.). Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education.

2008

Journal Articles

  • Schultz, M., Ierdiaconou, D., Smith, S., Horwitz, P., Richardson, A., Crandall, K., Austin, C. (2008). Sea-Level Changes and Palaeo-Ranges: Reconstruction of ancient Shorelines and River Drainages and the Phylogeography of the Australian Land Crayfish Engaeus Sericatus Clark (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Molecular Ecology, 17(24), 5291-5314. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03996.x.
  • Hinwood, A., Horwitz, P., Rogan, R. (2008). Human exposure to metals in groundwater affected by acid sulfate soil disturbance. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 55(3), 538-545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-007-9076-3.
  • Horwitz, P., Bradshaw, D., Hopper, S., Davies, P., Froend, R., Bradshaw, F. (2008). Hydrological change escalates risk of ecosystem stress in Australia's threatened biodiversity hotspot. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 91(1), 1-11.

Conference Publications

  • Bunn, J., Koenders, A., Austin, C., Horwitz, P. (2008). Identification Of Hairy, Smooth And Hybrid Marron (Decapoda: Parastacidae) In The Margaret River: Morphology And Allozymes.. Proceedings of the 16th Symposium of the International Association of Astacology (113-121). International Association of Astacology.

Reports

  • McKay, K., Loomes, R., Horwitz, P., Froend, R., Wilson, J. (2008). Environmental Water Requirements of Priority Water Resources in the South Coast Region. Perth, W.A.. Edith Cowan University.
  • Horwitz, P., Blake, D., Cargill, J., Froend, R., Hinwood, A., Loomes, R., McQueen, H., Rogan, R., Van Etten, E. (2008). Fire management implications for wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain, Western Australia. Perth, W.A.. Edith Cowan University.

2007

Journal Articles

  • Schultz, M., Smith, S., Richardson, A., Horwitz, P., Crandall, K., Austin, C. (2007). Cryptic diversity in Engaeus Erichson, Geocharax Clark and Gramastacus Riek (Decapoda:Parastacidae) revealed by mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences. Invertebrate Systematics, 21(6), 569-587.

2006

Journal Articles

  • Hewitt, N., Horwitz, P. (2006). Learning and capacity building for irrigators in Western Australia's East Wanneroo Area: A theoretical framework for educational provision and a sketch of the socioecological context. Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 5(1), 41-49.
  • Hinwood, A., Horwitz, P., Appleyard, SJ., Barton, C., Wajrak, M. (2006). Acid Sulphate Soil Disturbance and metals in groundwater: Implications for human exposure through home grown produce. Environmental Pollution, 143(1), 100-105.
  • Kabii, T., Horwitz, P. (2006). A review of landholder motivations and determinants for participation in conservation covenanting programmes. Environmental Conservation, 33(1), 11-20.
  • Brueckner, M., Duff, J., McKenna, R., Horwitz, P. (2006). What are they taking us for? The Participatory Nature of Western Australia's Regional Forest Agreement Process. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 13(1), 6-16.
  • Davis, J., Horwitz, P., Norris, R., Chessman, B., McGuire, M., Sommer, B. (2006). Are river bioassessment methods using macroinvertebrates applicable to wetlands?. Hydrobiologia, 572(1), 115-128.

Conference Publications

  • Horwitz, P. (2006). Connections in Nyungar Boodja: An Essay, and a Story. Sharing Wisdom for our Future Environmental Education in Action (23-31). Australian Association for Environmental Education.

2005

Journal Articles

  • Brueckner, M., Horwitz, P. (2005). The use of science in environmental policy:A case study of the Regional Forest Agreement process in Western Australia. Sustainabilty: Science, Practice & Policy, 1(2), 14-24.
  • Rogan, R., O'Connor, M., Horwitz, P. (2005). Nowhere to hide: Awareness and perceptions of environmental change, and their influence on relationships with place. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 25(2), 147-158.
  • Rogan, R., O'Connor, M., Horwitz, P. (2005). Nowhere to hide: Awareness and perceptions of environmental change and their influence on relationships with place. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 25(2), 147-158.
  • Smith, RD., Horwitz, P. (2005). Preventing wetland soils and sediments from burning on the Swan Coastal Plain: Workshop outcomes and conclusions. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 88(3), 143-145.
  • Horwitz, P., Wilcox, B. (2005). Parasites, ecosystems and sustainability: An ecological and complex systems perspective. International Journal of Parasitology, 35(7), 725-732.
  • Strehlow, K., Davis, J., Sim, L., Chambers, J., Halse, S., Hamilton, D., Horwitz, P., McComb, A., Froend, R. (2005). Temporal changes between ecological regimes in a range of primary and secondary salinised wetlands. Hydrobiologia: the international journal on limnology and marine sciences, 552(1), 17-31.
  • Horwitz, P., Sommer, B. (2005). Water quality responses to fire, with particular reference to organic-rich wetlands and the Swan Coastal Plain: A review. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 88(3), 121-128.
  • Horwitz, P., Smith, RD. (2005). Fire and wetland soils and sediments on the Swan Coastal Plain: An introduction. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 88(3), 77-79.
  • Vinetz, J., Wilcox, B., Aguirre, A., Gollin, L., Katz, A., Fujioka, R., Maly, K., Horwitz, P., Chang, H. (2005). Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Leptospirosis as a model of incorporating transdisciplinary approaches to understand infectious disease emergence. EcoHealth, 2(4), 291-306.

Conference Publications

  • Calver, MC., Bigler-Cole, H., Bolton, G., Dargavel, J., Gaynor, A., Horwitz, P., Mills, J., Wardell-Johnson, G. (2005). Why 'A forest conscienceness'?. 6th National Conference Proceedings (17-23). Millpress.
  • Gilles, M., Horwitz, P. (2005). Human health and forested ecosystems. A Forest Consciousness. Proceedings 6th National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society Inc. 12-17 September, 2004, Augusta, Western Australia (193-199). Millpress.

2004

Journal Articles

  • Gilles, M., Galloway, D., Horwitz, P., Larson, A. (2004). Reintegrating coastal development and public health in Western Australia. EcoHealth, 1(n/a), 340-350.

Conference Publications

  • Franke, B., Horwitz, P., Strawbridge, M. (2004). Reconciling differences - the sub-regional challenge posed by salinity recovery in the Warren Catchment, south-western Australia. Salinity Solutions: Working with Science and Society (0). CRC for Plant-bases Management of Dryland Salinity.

2003

Book Chapters

  • Judd, S., Horwitz, P. (2003). Diversity and biogeography of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from south-western Australia: organic matter and microhabitat utilisation in seasonally dry landscapes.. The Biology of Terrestrial Isopods. Crustaceana Monographs (191-215.). Brill.
  • Horwitz, P., Judd, S., Sommer, B. (2003). Fire and organic substrates: soil structure, water quality and biodiversity in far southwest Western Australia. Fire in ecosystems of south-west Western Australia: Impacts and management. (381-393). Backhuys Publishers.

Journal Articles

  • Davis, J., McGuire, M., Halse, S., Hamilton, D., Horwitz, P., McComb, A., Froend, R., Lyons, M., Sim, L. (2003). What happens when you add salt: predicting impacts of secondary salinisation on shallow aquatic ecosystems using an alternative states model. Australian Journal of Botony, 51(6), 715-724.
  • Davis, J., McGuire, M., Halse, S., Hamilton, D., Horwitz, P., Barstow, C., Froend, R., Lyons, M., Sim, L. (2003). What happens when you add salt: predicting impacts of secondary salinisation on shallow aquatic ecosystems using an alternative states model. Australian Journal of Botany, 51(6), 715-724.

Conference Publications

  • Horwitz, P., Rogan, R., Bradby, K., Robertson, M. (2003). Socio-ecological relationships and their consequences for coping with environmental changes in south-western Australia.. Proceedings of the Airs, Waters, Places Transdisciplanary Conference on Ecosystem Health in Australia (9 pages). School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle.

2002

Journal Articles

  • Horwitz, P., Nichols, P. (2002). Located Toxicology: The Need for Alternative Methodologies to Address Toxicological Significance. Australian Journal of Ecotoxicology, 8, 45-50.

2001

Journal Articles

  • Sommer, B., Horwitz, P. (2001). Water quality and macroinvertebrate response to acidification following intensified summer droughts in a Western Australian wetland. Marine and Freshwater Research, 52(7), 1015-21.
  • Boyce, M., Lavery, P., Weatherill, P., Horwitz, P. (2001). Spatial variation of the d13 C signature of Ruppia megacarpa (Mason) in coastal lagoons of south-western Australia and its implication for isotopic studies. Aquatic Botany, 71, 83 -92.

Research Projects

  • PEAT | Protecting peatland ecosystems and addressing threats in Southwestern Australia, Ian Potter Foundation, Grant, 2023 ‑ 2028, $879,816.
  • Intergenerational cultural transfer of Indigenous knowledges, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Projects), 2022 ‑ 2026, $137,294.
  • Responding to Natural Disaster Risk: Evaluating Vulnerability, Awareness and Liveability (REVAL) , Department of Fire and Emergency Services, National Disaster Risk Reduction Grant, 2024 ‑ 2025, $127,000.
  • Transformative Aboriginal agriculture methods: Maaman Marra Boodja, Grower Group Alliance, South-West WA Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub grant, 2024 ‑ 2025, $199,000.
  • Securing health in Fiji through strengthened health systems and integrated water management to tackle the Three Plagues: typhoid, dengue and leptospirosis., National Health and Medical Research Council, DFAT - Stronger Systems For Health Security Call, 2018 ‑ 2024, $546,640.
  • Research into the Development of acidification thresholds and early warning systems for wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2023 ‑ 2024, $42,885.
  • Locating loss from climate change in everyday places, Australian Research Council, Grant - Discovery Projects, 2018 ‑ 2023, $20,000.
  • The Predicting and Managing the Impacts of Wildfire and Prescription Burns on Water Quality and Water-Related Assets Project, Water Corporation, Grant, 2019 ‑ 2023, $825,000.
  • Environmental Monitoring and Investigations for the Gnangara Mound - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2022 ‑ 2023, $29,009.
  • Restoring on-Country performance: song, language and south coast landscapes, Australian Research Council, Grant - Discovery Indigenous, 2020 ‑ 2023, $1,106,370.
  • Environmental Monitoring and Investigations for the Gnangara Mound - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2021 ‑ 2022, $28,163.
  • Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Health: a comparative study from South-Western Australia, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Grant, 2021 ‑ 2022, $3,500.
  • Wildfire in Yanchep National Park wetlands: post-fire effects, water quality and macroinvertebrate response , Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2020 ‑ 2021, $39,330.
  • Environmental Monitoring and Investigations for the Gnangara Mound - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2020 ‑ 2021, $27,054.
  • Gingin Brook groundwater dependent aquatic fauna studies - Phase 2, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2020 ‑ 2021, $39,400.
  • Geospatial Mapping of Empodisma Peatlands in southwest Western Australia, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Environmental Mapping Study Grant, 2021, $50,000.
  • Assessing the implications of revising threshold levels on wetland and bushland values for sites in Statement 819 – Gnangara Groundwater Resources, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2019 ‑ 2020, $44,261.
  • Genetic diversity of Western Australian Cherax species, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2019 ‑ 2020, $26,700.
  • Gingin Brook groundwater dependent aquatic fauna studies, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2019 ‑ 2020, $43,640.
  • Environmental monitoring and investigations for the Gnangara Mound – Gnangara wetland macroinvertebrate and water quality monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2019 ‑ 2020, $27,723.
  • Development of non-lethal methods to assess stress and reproductive status of the hairy marron, Cherax tenuimanus: a critically endangered freshwater crayfish., Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Grant, 2017 ‑ 2019, $12,250.
  • Environmental monitoring and investigations for the Gnangara and Jandakot Mounds – Gnangara wetland macroinvertebrate and water quality monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2018 ‑ 2019, $23,748.
  • Environmental Monitoring and Investigations for the Gnangara Mound - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2017 ‑ 2018, $22,441.
  • Enhancing research collaborations at the nexus of ecology and human health, Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2017 Round 1, 2017 ‑ 2018, $6,270.
  • A collaborative national and international interdisciplinary research agenda to investigate the development, application and governance of pesticides., Edith Cowan University, ECU Collaboration Enhancement Scheme - 2017 Round 1, 2017 ‑ 2018, $10,000.
  • Environmental Monitoring and Investigations for the Gnangara Mound - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2016 ‑ 2017, $20,875.
  • Designing water quality monitoring protocols in catchments after severe wildfires: the 2016 Harvey River Basin case study., Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration Scheme - 2016 Open Round, 2016 ‑ 2017, $30,000.
  • Macroinvertebrates of the Chittering Lake, Chittering Valley Land Conservation District Committee, Grant, 2016, $9,780.
  • The impact of nutrient load on Ostracoda (Crustacea) diversity in Perth lakes and wetlands (WA)., Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration Grant - 2015 (Round 1), 2015 ‑ 2016, $53,000.
  • Quantification of the Biodiversity of the Lake MacLeod Northern Ponds, Dampier Salt Limited Perth Division, Grant-Dampsalt, 2010 ‑ 2016, $433,711.
  • Environmental Monitoring and Investigations for the Gnangara and Jandakot Mounds - Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Tender, 2013 ‑ 2016, $104,881.
  • Foundational aspects for a research consortium on health, water and landscapes: a database and a learning network, Edith Cowan University, ECU Development Grant, 2013 ‑ 2015, $37,252.
  • Dampier Salts sites and ponds and their importance for migratory and other shorebirds, Dampier Salt Limited Perth Division, Grant-Dampsalt, 2010 ‑ 2015, $394,997.
  • Rottnest Island Salt Lakes – Feasibility of a Ramsar Site Nomination, Rottnest Island Authority, Grant, 2013 ‑ 2014, $5,000.
  • Management of Brine Disposal into Inland Ecosystems, National Centre of Excellence in Desalination, NCED - Funding Rounds, 2011 ‑ 2014, $243,807.
  • Adapting to climate change: a risk assessment and decision framework for managing groundwater dependent ecosystems with declining water levels, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF), 2012 ‑ 2013, $85,180.
  • The Social Ecology of Ningaloo Tourism, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Ningaloo Cluster Project Scholarship, 2008 ‑ 2013, $75,000.
  • Project 4.1 - Wetland Macroinvertebrates and Water Quality (Gnangara Mound), Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2008 ‑ 2013, $184,031.
  • A Cultural Geography of the Leschenault Estuary: A social values study, Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration Grant - 2012 (Round 1), 2012 ‑ 2013, $53,760.
  • Characterisation of Fish Usage of Yarragadee Discharge Based on Water Chemistry, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2007 ‑ 2011, $18,883.
  • Useability Index for the Swan Canning Riverpark, Swan River Trust, Grant, 2010 ‑ 2011, $60,000.
  • STCRC - Sustainable Resources Research Fellow, CRC Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Fellowship, 2008 ‑ 2010, $185,096.
  • Data Audit and Research Framework for the Northern Ponds of Lake MacLeod, Dampier Salt Limited Perth Division, Grant-Dampsalt, 2009 ‑ 2010, $25,000.
  • Ecosystem Services and Productive Base in the Murray Darling Basin, Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Grant, 2009 ‑ 2010, $10,000.
  • Surface and Interstitial Invertebrate Communities in Tributraties of the Blackwood River Receiving Discharge From the Leederville Aquifer, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2008 ‑ 2009, $21,212.
  • Evaluation of Training Techniques in Systems Thinking, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), CSIRO - Grant, 2009, $3,000.
  • Drafting Chapter for Gnangara Sustainability Strategy, Department of Environment and Conservation WA, Grant, 2008 ‑ 2009, $8,900.
  • Wetland Macroinvertebrates and Water Quality (Northeast Gnangara Mound), Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2008 ‑ 2009, $14,375.
  • Surface and Interstitial Invertebrate Communities in in and Near Spearwood Creek, a Tributary of the Lower Blackwood River, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2008 ‑ 2009, $18,534.
  • An investigation of aquatic macro invertebrate occurrence and water quality at Lake Chandala (2009), Department of Environment and Conservation WA, Grant, 2009, $6,494.
  • Surface and Interstitial Invertebrate Communities in Ephemeral Tributaries of the Blackwood River in the Region of the Yarragadee Aquifer Discharge Zone , Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2008 ‑ 2009, $15,858.
  • Australian Tourism in a Water Constrained Economy: Scoping Study - Research Agenda, La Trobe University, CRC - Grant, 2008 ‑ 2009, $15,000.
  • Study of migration patterns, habitat and water requirements of fish and invertebrates in the Blackwood River, Murdoch University, Grant, 2007 ‑ 2008, $85,552.
  • Field studies into the reproduction biology and conservation requirements of Hairy Marron in the South West DEC region, Department of Environment and Conservation WA, Grant, 2007 ‑ 2008, $13,100.
  • Environmental Monitoring and Investigations for Gnangara Mound - Wetland Macroinvertebrate Monitoring, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2007 ‑ 2008, $42,847.
  • Impact of Disturbed Acid Sulphate Soils on Freshwater Ecosystems, Western Australia, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2007 ‑ 2008, $167,019.
  • Field studies into the biology and conservation requirements of Engaewa species in the South West and Warren DEC regions, Department of Environment and Conservation WA, Grant, 2006 ‑ 2008, $37,500.
  • Environmental water requirements of priority water resources in the South Coastal Region, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2006 ‑ 2008, $72,321.
  • Fire management implications for the wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain, Fire and Emergency Services Authority of WA, Grant, 2006 ‑ 2008, $58,850.
  • Fire, organic soils and acidification, Fire and Emergency Services Authority of WA, Grant, 2006 ‑ 2008, $75,000.
  • Fish migration patterns in the Blackwood River, Murdoch University, Grant, 2005 ‑ 2008, $59,992.
  • Stygofauna research monitoring, Natural Resource Services Pty Ltd, Grant, 2004 ‑ 2008, $16,800.
  • Assessment of Wetland Invertebrate & Fish Biodiversity for the Gnangara Sustainability Study, Department of Environment and Conservation WA, Grant, 2008, $23,715.
  • Fish and crayfish migrations of the Blackwood River: Influence of surface and groundwater, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (WA), Grant, 2007, $34,716.
  • A Participatory Approach to Understanding and Monitoring Soil Health, Agriculture WA, Grant, 2006 ‑ 2007, $2,500.
  • Assisting recovery actions for Margaret River Marron, South West Catchment Council, Grant, 2006 ‑ 2007, $23,400.
  • Gnangara Mound Monitoring - macroinvertebrates, Water and Rivers Commission WA, Grant, 2000 ‑ 2007, $225,757.
  • Biological assessment of the Milyeannup Heritage Site, Bush Heritage Australia, Grant, 2007, $4,500.
  • Vulnerability of organic soils to fire, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Grant, 2004 ‑ 2006, $3,182.
  • Neerabup fire suppression research and monitoring, Fire and Emergency Services Authority of WA, Grant, 2006, $22,920.
  • Indicators of ecosystem health in Western Australian recovery catchments, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Projects), 2002 ‑ 2005, $97,855.
  • Investigation into the use of methoxyphenol and levoglucosan as biomarkers for woodsmoke exposure. , Department of Environment Regulation WA, Grant, 2003 ‑ 2004, $23,100.
  • Establishing best practice protocols in the management of occupational and environmental health in a high risk mining and ore processing environment., Edith Cowan University, ECU Industry Collaboration - Grant, 2003 ‑ 2004, $27,000.
  • Inventory of the Aquatic Flora and Fauna of the Australian Bush Heritage Funds Kojonup Bush Block Wetlands, World Wide Fund for Nature Australia, Grant, 2002, $17,357.

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Studies of fire regimes and interaction with soil erosion parameters in the Jarrah Forest ecosystem in South-western Australia using geospatial techniques

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The Role of Green Areas in Cooling Surrounding Urban Areas

External University

  • Doctor of Philosophy, UNDERSTANDING FIRE TRANSFORMED DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER FOR WATER QUALITY IN FORESTED CATCHMENTS

Completed Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Complexity & creative capacity: Reformulating the problem of knowledge transfer in environmental management.
  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), Participatory approaches for interpretation planning in a world heritage area.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Factors controlling wetland sediment response to alternate wetting and drying and how this affects water quality.
  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), Investigation of the replacement of the margaret river hairy marron Cherax tenuimanus (smith 1912) by the smooth marron c.Cainii (austin 2002).
  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), Boundaries of governance: Social responsibility in mining in Western Australia.
  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), An ecological characterisation of a shallow seasonal claypan wetland, southwestern Australia.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, A nested environmental approach to typhoid epidemiology in central division, fiji
  • Doctor of Philosophy: Origin and fate of organic matter in South-West Australian wetlands
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The relationship between the meaning of water and sense of place: A grounded theory study from northern Thailand.
  • Master by Research: Aspects of the taxonomy and ecology of the ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblage of the Swan Coastal Plain (with particular reference to habitat fragmentation and the Quindalup dune system)
  • Master by Research: A framework for river restoration planning. Considering conceptual and structural perspectives from case studies of the Liao River in China and Kalgan River in Australia
  • Master by Research: Influence of adjacent seagrass on the fish assemblages off sandy beaches
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Terrestrial isopods (crustacea: Oniscidea) and biogeographical patterns in South-Western Australia.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, SEEING THROUGH OTHERS EYES: EXPLORING WESTERN SCIENTIFIC AND INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Seeing through others' eyes: Towards a hybrid ecology of marine turtle and dugong in Australia
  • Master of Science (Biological Sciences), The effect of diet on growth and reproduction of Western swamp tortoises (Pseudemydura umbrina) at Perth Zoo
  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), Understanding and disrupting institutional settings: Using networks of conversations to re-imagine future farming lives.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Health, lifestyle and nature disconnect in high-rise apartment dwellers
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The nature of urban communities: An exploration of relationships between urban green space, environmental connection and health.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Factors influencing the capacity of communities to respond to coastal erosion in the uper gulf of Thailand.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Inorganic hydrogeochemical responses to fires in wetland sediments on the Swan coastal plain, Western Australia.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Small-scale biogeographic patterns of benthic bacterial and ciliate communities in the saline ponds of lake macleod, North-Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Forest-based poverty alleviation in North-eastern Vietnam
  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), The role of farm dams as refugia for aquatic invertebrates in a salinized landscape.

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Spatial variation of allanblackia parviflora seed products in Ghana: Chemical and ethnobotanical exploration
  • Master of Science (Biological Sciences), Modernising Conservation Through Technology: A metabolic investigation of a critically endangered freshwater crayfish.
  • Master of Science (Biological Sciences), Phylogeography and population structure of the putative relict Reedia spathacea F. Muell. (Cyperaceae)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Systematics and biogeography of the Australian burrowing freshwater crayfish genus Engaewa riek (decapoda: Parastacidae)
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Identification of social water requirements for water resource planning.

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Science (Environmental Management), Defining appropriate options for post-closure land use of tamala park landfill: A community participation process, Western Australia
  • Master of Science (Biological Sciences), A preliminary investigation of the potential effects of the invasive mozambique tilapia oreochromis mossambicus on the native fish assemblages of lake macleod, Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Ancient origins of a diverse stygofaunal group: The Australian bathynellidae (crustacea)
  • Master of Arts (Performing Arts), Keniny Kaadadijiny: Restoring and Developing Dance for Noongar Boondjar
  • Master by Research: Evaluation of revegetation techniques used on degraded agricultural land in the central Avon catchment: Western Australia
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Narrowing income disparities as policy priority for inclusive economic growth: An applied computable general equilibrium (cge) approach on urban and non-urban industries in myanmar
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Justice and scale in water allocation
  • Master of Science by Research, Accuracy Assessment of Spectral Indices & Determining Factors Influencing Burn Severity of the 2021 Wooroloo Fire
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Applying the principles of spatial modelling to the management of biodiversity in the fragmented landscapes of South-Western Australia.
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