Chris Daniels, Director BioCity@UniSA
Chris Daniels is Professor of Urban Ecology in the School of Natural and Built Environments at the University of South Australia (UniSA). Chris was educated at the University of Adelaide and the University of New England. He has held academic positions at the University of California and Flinders University before moving to the University of Adelaide and now UniSA. He is married with 2 children and lives in Belair.
Chris has been a prolific scientist and author, having edited 4 books and contributed to more than 150 scientific publications. He has been published on issues regarding the natural and built environments, and has an abiding interest in reptiles, particularly lizards. Chris is also an award-winning science communicator. He has regular sessions on 891 ABC Radio, and writes for the Advertiser newspaper on a range of science and environmental topics.
In 2002, Chris united a group of South Australian scientists to form BioCity. This group included Tim Flannery and representatives from the Museum, Botanical Gardens, Royal Zoological Society, South Australian Research and Development Institute, and the Department for Environment and Heritage. This organisation has since grown to be a partnership of over 140 members from over 40 institutions.
In 2007 the research centre BioCity@UniSA was established to further research and teaching links in the School of Natural and Built Environments at UniSA. This centre will focus on education, communication, and research of the urban environment.
Contact Details
Chris Daniels, Professor of Urban Ecology
School of Natural and Built Environments
University of South Australia
Office: BJ3-17, City East Campus
Phone: +61 8 8302 2317
Email: chris.daniels@unisa.edu.au
UniSA Homepage: Chris Daniels
Graciela Metternicht, Deputy Director BioCity@UniSA
Graciela Metternicht has recently joined the School of Natural and Built Environments of the University of South Australia, as Head of Discipline and Professor of Geospatial Information Systems and Environmental Management. Prior to her present appointment, Graciela was Professor of Geospatial Sciences and Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies at the Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, in Western Australia.
During her stay at Curtin University, Graciela engaged in research on applications of geospatial technologies, with emphasis on remote sensing, to the mapping, modelling, and monitoring of agricultural landscapes, and environmental processes of land degradation including soil salinisation. In 2006, Graciela was invited by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs and the European Space Agency to participate at the Regional Workshop on the Applications of Global Navigation Satellite System Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition to funding received from the Australian Research Council, she has been recipient of awards and research grants by the Australian Academy of Science (1999), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1999), the Science and Technology Agency of Japan (2001), the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (1997), the Netherlands Fellowship Program (1991-96), the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (1993), the European Community (1995) and the American State Organisation (1989).
Graciela’s scholarship has resulted in 131 singly or co-authored publications, with 32 works appearing in major international journals of remote sensing and geosciences. She has developed international standing and professional leadership resulting in invitations as Guest Professor and visiting scientist of European, Japanese, Chinese and African Universities and Research Institutes; membership of editorial boards of international journals in GeoSpatial Sciences; and the appointment as acting chair of the commission Mapping from Satellite Imagery of the International Cartographic Association.
Graciela’s current research interests are: applications of optical, IR and microwave remote sensing and GIS for mapping and monitoring agricultural landscapes, rangelands, urban-scapes and land degradation. She is focussed on spatial analysis and modelling with emphasis on fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets, and soft image classifiers.
Contact Details
Graciela Metternicht, Head of Discipline and Professor
Geospatial Systems and Environmental Management
School of Natural and Built Environments
University of South Australia
Office: P2-42, Mawson Lakes Campus
Phone: +61 8 8302 5108
Email: graciela.metternicht@unisa.edu.au
UniSA Homepage: Graciela Metternicht
Julie Mills, Deputy Director BioCity@UniSA
Julie Mills is an Associate Professor Lecturer and Program Director in Civil Engineering at the University of South Australia. Prior to commencing at the University in 1996, she worked for fifteen years as a structural engineer in private industry on industrial, commercial and residential projects. She has a BE (Hons) from Adelaide University, a M. Tech. (Civil Engineering) from Deakin University and a PhD from Curtin University in the area of structural engineering education.
Julie’s primary research interests are in cold-formed steel structures, engineering education and women in engineering. She is Immediate Past Chair of the National Committee for Women in Engineering in Australia. Julie has received several university teaching awards and in 2006 was awarded a Carrick Australian Award for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Contact Details
Julie Mills, Associate Professor and Program Director in Civil Engineering
School of Natural and Built Environments
University of South Australia
Office: P2-14, Mawson Lakes Campus
Phone: +61 8 8302 3073
Email: julie.mills@unisa.edu.au
UniSA Homepage: Julie Mills
Greg Johnston, BioCity@UniSA Management Committee
Dr Greg Johnston is Head of Science at the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia. He took degrees in zoology and anatomy at Adelaide University and a PhD in biology at Flinders University. His research interests are in the areas of behavioural and evolutionary ecology and conservation biology.
Greg has worked at the Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and has been a visiting Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He has done extensive biological field research in Australia and in Papua New Guinea. He is an adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Natural and Built Environments at UniSA.
Greg has published over 40 scientific publications. He is a past president (and currently vice-president) of the Australasian Society of the Study of Animal Behaviour, and a member of the International Pelican Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission.
Contact Details
Dr Greg Johnston BSc(Hons) PhD,
Royal Zoological Society of South Australia
Phone: +61 8 8230 1227
Email: gjohnston@adelaidezoo.com.au
Keith Smith
Manager: Ecology Projects
Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board
(08) 8285 2033
Email: keith.smith@adelaide.nrm.sa.gov.au
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