Victorian Coastal Council's Science Panel

The Science Panel was the Victorian Coastal Council's scientific advisory group for coast and marine environments. The Panel comprised more than 30 senior scientists representing a broad range of disciplines to provide a "whole-of-coast" perspective.

The Victorian Coastal Council is a statutory body advising the Minister for Environment and Climate Change on coastal issues in Victoria. The Panel assisted the Council with this task by providing scientific input about Victoria’s coast. This recognised the critical role that independent and credible scientific advice has in informing evidence-based policy.

Membership of the Science Panel consisted of the Victorian Coastal Council Science and Environment Committee and external scientists. Panel members were involved as individual scientists, rather than institutional representatives, and several criteria were used in composing the Panel:

The scientific credibility and reputation of the individual;
The need to provide coverage of a broad range of disciplines related to coastal and marine science, such as marine and estuarine ecology, climate change processes, environmental chemistry, coastal and marine engineering, oceanography and geomorphology;
Recognition of system-wide linkages and the need for broad perspective, including catchment to coast;
Awareness of long-term and large scale environmental change.
A practical limitation that most scientists be based in Victoria.

Members of the Panel came from academic institutions, government agencies and the private sector.

PANEL MEMBER	EXPERTISE	ORGANISATION
Prof. Sam Adeloju	Chemistry	School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, Monash University
Mr Chris Arnott	Catchments and fluvial geomorphology	Aither Pty Ltd
Assoc. Prof John Arnould	Marine mammals	School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Prof. Jon Barnett	Climate change and adaptation	University of Melbourne
Prof. John Beardall	Climate, marine botany	Faculty of Science, Monash University
Prof.Ian Bishop	Remote sensing	Centre for Geographic Information Systems and Modelling, University of Melbourne
Prof. Paul Boon	Saltmarsh ecosystems	Victoria University
Prof. Rebekah Brown	Urban water management and environmental sociology	Monash Sustainability Institute
Mr Gerry Byrne	Coastal engineering	Vantree Pty Ltd
Dr Perran Cook	Geochemistry	Monash University
Dr Peter Dann	Birds	Phillip Island Nature Parks
Assoc. Prof Rob Day	Fisheries, particularly abalone	Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne
Dr Tim Dempster	Aquaculture-environment interactions	Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne
Prof. Peter Gell	Palaeoecology of coastal areas	School of Science, IT and Engineering, University of Ballarat
Prof. Graeme Hayes	Biological oceanography	Deakin University
Dr Jeremy Hindell	Estuarine biology	Arthur Rylah Institute, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Dr Daniel Ierodiaconou	Marine habitat mapping	Deakin University
Dr Darren James	Coastal engineering	Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Prof. Greg Jenkins	Marine ecology, fish	Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne
Dr David Kennedy	Coastal geomorphology	Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne
Prof. Michael Keough	Marine ecology	University of Melbourne
Prof. Spas Kolev	Chemistry	School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
Dr Randall Lee	Oceanography	Centre for Environmental Sciences, Environment Protection Authority Victoria
Dr Brett Light	Chemistry, microscopic algae, nutrient management	Environment Protection Authority Victoria
Mr Andrew Longmore	Chemist, nutrient management	MAFRI, Department of Primary Industries
Dr Peter Macreadie	Blue carbon and marine ecology	Deakin University
Prof Dustin Marshall	Marine ecology and evolution	Monash University
Dr Andrew McCowan	Oceanography	Water Technology Pty Ltd
Dr Kathleen McInnes	Climate Impacts	Marine & Atmospheric Research, CSIRO
Dr Mark Norman	Biodiversity	Sciences, Museum Victoria
Prof. Dayanthi Nugedoda	Effects of pollutants	School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University
Assoc. Prof. Vin Pettigrove	Catchment management and aquatic ecotoxicology	University of Melbourne
Dr David Provis	Coastal Oceanography	Cardno Pty Ltd
Prof. Ian Rae	Environmental chemistry	Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne
Mr Neville Rosengren	Coastal geomorphology	Dept of Civil Engineering & Physical Sciences, Latrobe University
Assoc. Prof. Ian Rutherford	Catchment management and policy	University of Melbourne
Dr John Sherwood	Chemistry, marine	School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
Assoc. Prof Stephen Swearer	Marine ecology and oceanography	Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne
EW Prof. Diana Walker	Marine botany; seagrass	Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Western Australia
Dr Mike Weston	Birds, shore birds	School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University

Significant Science Panel Publications

Page last updated: 12/06/19