Our Team

Principal Investigator

Prof Andrew Marshall

Tropical Forests and People Research Centre,
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Phone: +61 7 5456 5281, Email: amarsha1@usc.edu.au 

Co-Investigators

Dr Marion Pfeifer

School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, 
Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Phone: +44 191 20 85626, Email: Marion.Pfeifer@newcastle.ac.uk

Dr Deo Shirima

National Carbon Monitoring Centre,
Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania.

Email: dshirima@sua.ac.tz

Dr Natalia Norden

Humboldt Institute, Colombia.

Email: nnorden@humboldt.org.co

Dr Thuy Nguyen

Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Vietnam

Email: thuy.t.nguyen.um@gmail.com

Dr Dong Lam Tran

Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Vietnam

Email: tranlamdong@gmail.com

Research Fellow

Dr Catherine Waite

Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, 
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Email: cwaite@usc.edu.au

Current research students

Alain Senghor K. Ngute

School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Email: alain.ngute@research.usc.edu.au 

Title of PhD: ‘Investigating the relationship between liana abundance and tropical forest recovery’.

Emma MacKintosh

School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Email: emma.mackintosh@research.usc.edu.au 

Title of PhD: ‘Investigating the relationship between liana abundance and Australian rainforest recovery’.

Charlotte Raven

School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Email: charlotte.raven@research.usc.edu.au 

Title of PhD: ‘The influence of disturbance and liana proliferation on invertebrate indicators of rainforest function’.

Sarah Letters

School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Email: sal036@student.usc.edu.au

Title of Honours: ‘The influence of elevation and disturbance on invertebrate pollinator communities in tropical rainforests’.

Abigail Wills (Completed)

Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, UK. Email: arw559@york.ac.uk 

Title of MRes: ‘Estimating tropical forest landscape restoration potential using vegetation plots and remote-sensing’.

Partners

Project lead partners: the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia); University of York (UK); Newcastle University (UK); Reforest Africa (Tanzania); Sokoine University of Agriculture (Tanzania); Humboldt Institute (Colombia) and Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences (Vietnam)

Additional partners: University of Leeds (UK); Missouri Botanical Garden (USA);  Natural History Museum of Denmark [Prof Henrik Enghoff] (University of Copenhagen); African Wildlife Foundation; IUCN Sustain

Collaborators

  • Dr Alvaro Cortés-Molino (University of Málaga, Spain)
  • Dr Antje Ahrends (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK)
  • C4 Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation (Australia)
  • Cassowary Coast Regional Council (Australia)
  • Prof David Schoeman (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)
  • Dr Deo Shirima (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania)
  • Dr Grahame Applegate (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)
  • Hamidu Seki Mkwawa (University College of Education, Tanzania)
  • Herman Lyatuu (Tanzania Forests Conservation Group, Tanzania)
  • Dr Jingjing Liang (Purdue University, USA)
  • Prof John Herbohn (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)
  • Prof Oliver Philips (University of Leeds, UK)
  • Peter Davies (University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)
  • Dr Phil Platts (University of York, UK)
  • Queensland Parks and Wildlife (Australia)
  • Rainforest Trust
  • Reforest Africa
  • Prof Rob Marchant (University of York, UK)
  • Prof Robin Chazdon (University of Connecticut, USA; University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)
  • Dr Robin Loveridge (University of York, UK)
  • Roy Gereau (Missouri Botanical Garden, USA)
  • Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology
  • Tanzania Forest Service Agency
  • Tanzania National Parks Authority
  • Tanzania Tree Seed Agency
  • Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute
  • Wet Tropics Management Authority (Australia)
  • Prof Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford, UK)

Funders

Main funders: Australian Research Council (ARC), University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia)

Additional funders: UK Research Councils, Flamingo Land Ltd., African Wildlife Foundation, IUCN Sustain, United Bank of Carbon