Consulting Services
The IAE offers a range of services to help better inform your management and policy decisions. We have specialist expertise in a range of areas, and can help find solutions to your environmental problems.
- Monitoring and assessment of freshwater systems at local, regional and national scales
- Environmental flow management – design, monitor and evaluate
- Apply Eco Evidence, a rapid evidence-synthesis framework management and policy development.
- Mesocosms studies to determine the effect of chemical and other stressors on freshwater communities and ecosystem functions.
- Freshwater System rehabilitation design, monitoring and evaluation, including system conceptualisation, identification of options and their prioritisation
- Communication and engagement around freshwater science and its application to management
- Project management
Contact
Dr Fiona Dyer
Fiona.Dyer@canberra.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 62012452
- Detection of invasive and native fish species within water-bodies using either single species or multi-species assays
- Development of specific eDNA assays for macro invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles and fish
- Biodiversity inventories from water sources , including terrestrial species
Contact
Associate Professor Dianne Gleeson
Dianne.Gleeson@canberra.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 62012237
- Measurement of trace elements in water, plant, animal and soil samples.
- Speciation of As, Hg, Se, and Sb in environmental, food, clinical, mining or health supplements.
- Biogeochemical cycling in aquatic environments (freshwater, marine and estuaries).
- Ecotoxicology specialising in relating exposure, dose, response with an emphasis on sub-lethal and energetic health measurements.
- Mesocosms studies to determine the effect of chemical and other stressors on freshwater communities and ecosystem functions.
Contact
Professor Bill Maher
Bill.Maher@canberra.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 6201 2531
- Use of genetic tools to detect natives and invaders
- Species identification from trace environmental (eDNA) samples, e.g. scats, saliva, hair fragments, other tissues, and freshwater samples
- Modelling to determine species boundaries, detect dispersal, and identify individuals.
Contact
Professor Stephen Sarre
Stephen.Sarre@canberra.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 62015657
- Genetics and identification of fish species
- Fish biodiversity surveys
Contact
Peter Unmack
Peter.Unmack@canberra.edu.au
Ph: +61 2 62015528