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AKBARZADEH, Aliakbar - Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Aliakbar specialises in energy conservation technologies; renewable energy (wind and solar); heat pipes for cooling of electronics; production of power from low-grade heat and solar water desalination.

ARROWSMITH, Colin - Associate Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Colin specialises in the use of GIS mapping techniques for behaviour modelling of the climate change impacts on various issues. He is working with the Committee for Melbourne investigating the impacts of climate change on Melbourne. He has also looked at the impact of climate change on tourism for different areas. He has p/grad students doing risk modelling from sea level change. His group aims to apply their expertise in smart and sophisticated ways to conserve the environment, support the sustainable use of key natural resources, build capacity and resilience in society, and identify credible policy options for future development.

BALLAGH, Allan - Mr. — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Allan is Director of RMIT TAFE. He is leading a project to integrate climate change issues into RMIT TAFE courses.

BAYLISS, Caroline - Ms. — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Caroline is the Director of Global Sustainability at RMIT. She specialises in creating working models of global sustainability through collaboration with government, corporate, academic and community leaders in the application of global sustainability principles.

BEKESSY, Sarah - Dr. — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Sarah specialises in biodiversity planning, population and landscape modelling in the urban environment and sustainable forestry management. She is also involved in education for sustainability and incorporating this into universities.

BERGMANN, Iris - Dr. — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Iris is involved in an ARC funded project titled "Carbon Neutral Communities /Social Learning and Behaviour Change".

BERRY, Mike - Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Mike’s research has focused on urban development processes, urban social theory, environmental economics and policy, housing markets and policy. Mike has been carrying out research of national significance and international reach into alternative financing approaches for affordable housing.

BHATTACHARYA, Sati - Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Sati is the Director of RMIT’s Rheology and Materials Processing Centre. The Centre’s staff work with industry on development of innovative solutions to waste. Projects have included recycling building materials and plastics into usable products and the development and assessment of novel construction and packaging materials, some of which utilise waste.

BRUMLEY, John - Associate Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

John specialises in groundwater resource management. He predicts land subsidence and effects on infrastructure and environment due to groundwater extraction. He also has a focus on sustainability in engineering practice and has been teaching in this area for over 15 years.

BUCKERIDGE, John - Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

John specialises in natural resources engineering and ecotoxicology. He assesses the feasibility of proposed projects in light of the environment, ethics, economics and engineering issues relating to them. He has a special emphasis on the marine environment, looking at the impacts of invasive marine taxa and various pollutants such as antifouling and stormwater. He advises on stormwater treatment and disposal; geotechnical slope stability studies with sensitive soils and water; plus changes to the distribution of marine taxa with temperature changes.

COLOE, Peter - Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Peter is a microbiologist with key research interests in understanding the mechanisms of pathogenesis of enteric pathogens and the development of effective vaccines to control zoonotic diseases.

DALTON, Tony - Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Tony’s primary research interest is in the area of housing and social policy with a focus on the changing nature of housing markets and distributional outcomes in a period of social and economic restructuring. Tony also studies the areas of housing industry, building regulation and housing renovation with a view to informing policy development that aims to improve the environmental performance of residential housing.

DE SILVA, Saman - Dr. — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Saman specialises in structural dynamics, Performance based Earthquake Engineering and Fire engineering (concrete and steel structures). Numerical methods in prediction modelling advanced structural modelling and analysis, computational mechanics. Decision support in sustainable civil infrastructure development and management. Saman is also involved in the Eco Home Project about sustainable housing.

DEEGAN, Craig - Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Craig specialises in the area of corporate social and environmental reporting and associated accountability and has an extensive list of top tier international publications in the area. He is currently supervising 9 PhD students who are studying various issues associated with social and environmental performance and accountability, and is working with industry and NGOs on various sustainability issues.

DEIGHTON, Margaret - Associate Professor — by Jodi-Anne M Smith — last modified 07-May-2008 19:56

Margaret is looking at the impacts of climate change on disease types, their spread and vectors with biotechnology, medical and veterinary microbiology. Example projects include: 1. We are looking at better and more efficient ways to control an environmental pathogen that causes mastitis is dairy cattle (Streptococcus uberis). Any improvement in the control of the disease would reduce the drain on agricultural resources and in that way would indirectly have a small impact on climate change. 2. We are also looking at pathogen die-off in biosolids. If we can show that stockpiled biosolids are microbiologically safe in less than 3 years, they would retain more of their nutrient value; this would be a more efficient use of human waste and again would be expected to have a positive impact on climate change.