Head of School
Message from the Head of School
We are passionate about our planet. We are fascinated by the interconnected web of systems – water, air, earth and people – that sculpt our complex Earth and human societies. Our school aims to benefit society through outstanding education, research, and engagement in geography, geoscience, atmospheric science, and allied multidisciplinary areas.
We encourage all our alumni to maintain ongoing connections to our school and the alumni community.
Research highlights
Geography: Tiffany Morisson ARC Laureate
Tiffany Morrison has years of experience conducting innovative interdisciplinary research spanning human geography, political science, climate science, and ecology. Her expertise is in the governance of environmental change, policy responses to warming ecosystems, and governance of new interventions in warming ecosystems.
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Climate and Weather: Dr Linden Ashcroft
Dr Linden Ashcroft was part of a small team awarded a 2025 University of Melbourne Excellence Awards recipient for Global, Place and Community Excellence (Award for Excellence in Community-based Initiatives) for creating their program Climate Kids. Congratulations to Linden and the climate kids team.
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Geoscience: Dr Ashleigh Hood and A/Prof Malcolm Wallace
Congratulations to Dr Ashleigh Hood and Associate Professor Malcolm Wallace for their Australian Research Council-funded Discovery Project ‘Making a habitable planet: tracking Earth’s thermostat with marine sediment’.
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Congratulations to Melanie Finch, Joao Ferreira da Silva and Alanis Olesch-Byrne
Melanie Finch (Lecturer and DECRA Fellow) secured a $450,000 research contract with Ora Banda Dr Mining to investigate the structural controls on gold mineralisation and the geological evolution of the shear zones hosting the gold deposits. It will support a postdoctoral fellowship for Alanis Olesch-Byrne and the PhD project of Joao Ferreira da Silva.
Eleanor Rowan wins best student poster award at the AESC
Masters student Nellie (Eleanor Rowan) won the best student poster award at the Australian Earth Sciences Convention.
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