Below is a selection of current major grants funding CBCS research. If you have any questions about a particular project, please click on the link to email the lead collaborator.
National Environmental Science Program's Threatened Species Recovery Hub
Funder: Commonwealth Department of the Environment
Value: $30,000,000
Collaborators: Prof Hugh Possingham, Assoc Prof Martine Maron, Assoc Prof Jonathan Rhodes, Assoc Prof Salit Kark, Prof Clive McAlpine
What could World Heritage listing deliver for Indigenous people? The Australian experience in a global context
Funder: ARC Discovery DP140100360
Value: $344,000
Collaborators: Prof Marc Hockings, Prof Ian Lilley, Dr Celmara Pocock, Assoc Prof Jon Willis
Integrating measures of Indigenous land management effectiveness
Funders: ARC Linkage, NAILSMA, TNC, Commonwealth of Australia
Value: $498,000
Collaborators: Prof Marc Hockings, Prof Stephen Garnett, Dr Dermot Smyth, Dr Cathy Robinson, Dr James Fitzsimons, Dr Rod Kennett, Glenn James
Global PA management effectiveness review
Funders: UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, The Nature Conservancy, WWF International
Value: $333,250
Collaborators: Prof Marc Hockings & Dr Fiona Leverington
Building capacity For adaptive management In Protected Areas through improved systems For monitoring and evaluation
Funders: ARC Linkage, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Parks Victoria, Parks Australia
Value: $595,000
Collaborator: Prof Marc Hockings
Achieving biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service delivery: The role of landscape structure
Funders: Australian Research Council
Value: $487,000
Collaborator: Assoc Prof Jonathan Rhodes, Logan City Council, Gold Coast City Council, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Redland City Council, Queensland Government
Recovering Australia's migratory shorebirds
Funders: Australian Research Council Linkage Project
Value: $425,000
Collaborator: Assoc Prof Richard Fuller, Professor Hugh Possingham
Mud, glorious mud! Mapping the world's intertidal ecosystems
Funders: Google Inc
Value: $123,000
Collaborator: Assoc Prof Richard Fuller, Professor Stuart Phinn (UQ), Chris Roelfsema (UQ), Dr Nick Murray, Dr Hawthorne Beyer (UQ), Jeffrey Hanson (UQ)
Migratory shorebird monitoring: Understanding ecological impact
Funders: Gladstone Ports Corporation
Value: $737,000
Collaborator: Assoc Prof Richard Fuller, Professor Marcel Klaassen, Dr Danny Rogers, Dr Jon Coleman, Professor Greg Skilleter
Conserving Antarctica's biodiversity under multiple stressors
Funders: Australian Antarctic Division
Value: $153,000
Collaborator: Assoc Prof Richard Fuller Jasmine Lee (UQ), Dr Aleks Terauds (AAD), Dr Justine Shaw (UQ & AAD)
Optimising the ecological performance of cities
Funders: Australian Research Council Future Fellowship
Value: $670,000
Collaborator: Assoc Prof Richard Fuller, Kevin Gaston, Paul Armsworth
Assessing the ecosystem-wide risks of threatened species translocation
Funders: Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Value:
Collaborator: Dr Eve McDonald-Madden, Parks Australia, The Nature Conservancy, Department of Parks and Wildlife
Habitat modelling and reintroduction modelling for the island scrub jay
Funders: The Nature Conservancy
Value: $55,000
Collaborator: Dr Eve McDonald-Madden, The Nature Conservancy
Using food web theory to conserve ecosystems
Funders: Australian Research Council DECRA
Value: $365,000
Collaborator: Dr Eve McDonald-Madden, INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research)
Informing UN-assisted National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plans with Earth observations: Application to forest integrity and connectivity
Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Value: $1,100,000
Collaborators: James Watson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Global assessment of the values of intact forests
Funders: Wildlife Conservation Society (US)
Value: $210,000
Collaborators: Associate Professor James Watson, Wildlife Conservation Society (US)
Offsets and protected area planning
Funder: The Nature Conservancy
Value: $230,000
Collaborators: Assoc Prof Martine Maron, Assoc Prof James Watson, The Nature Conservancy
Spatial planning across Eastern Africa
Funders: Wildlife Conservation Society (US)
Value: $121,742
Collaborators: Assoc Prof James Watson, Wildlife Conservation Society (US)
The Luc-Hoffman Institute Fellow: Pathways for drivers of positive change
Funders: WWF International
Value: $189,935
Collaborators: Assoc Prof James Watson, Prof Hugh Possingham
The capacity of forests to protect regional climate under global warming
Funders: ARC Discovery Project
Value: $478,000
Collaborators: Prof Clive McAlpine, Assoc Prof Jonathan Rhodes
Conserving and recovering the koala populations on the New South Wales far north coast
Funders: ARC Linkage Project
Value: $302,000
Collaborators: Prof Clive McAlpine, Assoc Prof Jonathan Rhodes
Australian Acoustic Observatory: A network to monitor biodiversity
Funders: ARC LIEF
Value: $900,000
Collaborators: Assoc Prof Richard Fuller, Assoc Prof Martine Maron
Searching for black swans in the shrinking ice
Funders: UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards
Value: $99,796
Collaborators: Dr Eve McDonald-Madden
Reconciling the triple bottom line of social inequity, economic return and environmental benefits in conservation decision-making
Funders: ARC Discovery Project
Value: $110,000
Collaborators: Assoc Prof James Watson, Prof Hugh Possingham
Decision analysis for the detection of foxes in Tasmania
Funder: Invasive Animals CRCInvasive Animals CRC
Value: $670,000
Collaborators: Dr Eve McDonald-Madden, Prof Hugh Possingham