The table below lists only funding that was directed solely to my own research programs. I have been a named investigator on other successful grant applications, including:
- Extension of funding for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies (nominated chief investigator and program leader), from January 2014 to December 2020 ($28,000,000)
- Natural Resource Management Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency): Knowledge to manage land and sea – a framework for the future, 2013-2016 ($919,015)
- Extension of funding to the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (nominated chief investigator and program leader), from July 2010 to December 2013 ($9,800,000)
- Australian Research Council Super Science Fellowships, Rounds 1 and 2, 2010-11: Resilience of coral reef ecosystems to climate change ($1,392,000)
- Caring for our Country Business Plan 2009-2010 (Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts): A strategic regional plan in Australia’s global biodiversity hotspot – phase two: on-ground implementation, 2010-11 ($1,500,000)
- Government of Canada-International Research Linkages: Developing approaches to include social considerations in environmental conservation – ecosystem services and conservation planning, 2010 ($11,000)
- Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility: Integrating and synthesising biodiversity and climate change vulnerability data collected in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforests, 2010 ($100,000)
- Caring for our Country Open Grants (Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts): A strategic regional conservation plan for Australia’s global biodiversity hotspot, 2008-09 ($367,130)
National Environmental Science Program, Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub: Multi-objective planning in northern Australia – co-benefits and trade-offs between environmental, economic, and cultural outcomes | 2016-19 | $1,167,750 |
National Environmental Science Program, Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub: Scoping project on threatened species in northern Australia | 2015-16 | $62,500 |
ARC Discovery Grant (Australian Research Council): Using larval connectivity to inform marine reserve network designs in the Coral Triangle (co-investigator) | 2014-16 | $365,000 |
Natural Resource Management Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation (Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency): Conservation planning for climate change adaptation | 2013-16 | $330,000 |
Australia-India Senior Visiting Fellowship (Australian Academy of Science): Reconciling biodiversity conservation and livelihoods in India (travel to the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment and the Indian Institute of Science Centre for Ecology Sciences) | 2013 | $8,100 |
Gorgon Barrow Island Net Conservation Benefits Fund: Decision support system for prioritising and implementing biosecurity on Western Australia’s islands | 2012-17 | $2,080,391 |
Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis: Integrated catchment-to-coast planning: data, decision support, and governance | 2012-13 | $50,000 |
Griffith University/James Cook University Collaborative Grants Scheme: Examining trade-offs and synergies between terrestrial and freshwater conservation priorities in the Daly catchment | 2012 | $8,000 |
National Environmental Research Program, Tropical Ecosystems Hub: Conservation planning for a changing coastal zone | 2011-14 | $531,440 |
National Environmental Research Program, Tropical Ecosystems Hub: Prioritising management actions for Great Barrier Reef islands | 2011-14 | $200,000 |
National Environmental Research Program, Northern Australia Hub: Catchment to coast conservation planning | 2011-14 | $648,250 |
Save our Seas Foundation: Systematic priorities for the management of marine mega-fauna in the face of climate change | 2011 | $18,260 |
Griffith University/James Cook University Collaborative Grants Scheme: Drivers of freshwater fish biodiversity loss | 2011 | $8,800 |
James Cook University, Collaboration Across Boundaries: Integrating conservation outcomes with landholder priorities for effective restoration in a Great Barrier Reef catchment | 2011 | $9,900 |
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): Applying a systematic conservation planning framework to develop a provincial marine protected area network management plan for Siquijor, Philippines | 2010-11 | $86,600 |
ARC Super Science Fellowships (Australian Research Council): Postdoctoral fellowship to develop systematic priorities for management of marine mega-fauna to increase their resilience to climate change | 2010-13 | $278,400 |
The Nature Conservancy: Solomon Islands, supporting country actions on the Convention on Biodiversity Program of Work on Protected Areas | 2010 | $40,000 |
Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Washington DC: Discussion paper on adaptive marine spatial planning | 2010 | $10,000 |
ARC Linkage Grant (Australian Research Council): Postdoctoral fellowship for innovative systematic conservation planning for indigenous land and sea country: Torres Strait as a case study | 2010-13 | $250,000 |
Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management and National Parks Association of Queensland: Statistical modelling to explain and predict current and enhanced reserve management costs in Queensland | 2009-12 | $330,000 |
Australian Institute of Marine Science: co-funding of postdoctoral researcher | 2009-11 | $150,000 |
Pew Foundation: Analysis of park management costs, Coral Sea | 2009 | $23,000 |
Avon Catchment Council: A Strategic Conservation Plan for Species and Ecological Community Conservation in the Avon NRM Region | 2008-10 | $292,430 |
ARC Linkage Grant (Australian Research Council): Forecasting and managing biodiversity change: birds in an urbanizing landscape (co-applicant) | 2007-09 | $178,186 |
ARC Discovery Grant (Australian Research Council): Integrating multiple conservation values for protection and restoration of native vegetation | 2006-08 | $410,000 |
ARC Linkage Grant (Australian Research Council): Postdoctoral fellowship for research on conservation planning in the context of dynamics and uncertainties (co-applicant) | 2004-06 | $164,000 |
ProVarzea (Brazil): Assistance with data compilation and software analysis for conservation planning on the Amazon floodplain | 2003-05 | $15,600 |
Conservation International: Co-ordination of international working group on software planning software and leading a workshop and short course at the 2003 World Parks Congress | 2002-03 | $15,600 |
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis: Costs of convening an international working group on conservation planning software | 2002-03 | $26,000 |
Resource and Conservation Assessment Council: Further development of C-Plan conservation planning software for application to coastal conservation assessments | 2002-03 | $90,000 |
University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Assistance in developing a conservation plan for the Thicket Biome | 2000-01 | $22,600 |
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International: Development of a manual for systematic conservation planning to be used throughout the WWF network | 2000-01 | $58,500 |
Resource and Conservation Assessment Council: Further development of C-Plan conservation planning software and application to negotiations over public forests in south-eastern New South Wales | 1999-00 | $290,000 |
Resource and Conservation Assessment Council: Further development of C-Plan conservation planning software and application to negotiations over public forests in north-eastern New South Wales | 1998-99 | $319,000 |
Environment Australia Biodiversity Group: Validation and refinement of estimates of irreplaceability in conservation planning | 1997-98 | $58,650 |
Resource and Conservation Assessment Council: Further development of C-Plan conservation planning software and application to negotiations over public forests in the Eden Management Area | 1997-98 | $291,000 |
Resource and Conservation Assessment Council: Further development of C-Plan conservation planning software | 1996-97 | $270,000 |
Resource and Conservation Assessment Council: Development of C-Plan conservation planning software and application to negotiations over public forests in eastern New South Wales | 1995-96 | $152,000 |
National Reserve System Co-operative Program (Australian Nature Conservation Agency): GIS and data base on reserves in New South Wales to assess representativeness and requirements | 1993-95 | $73,600 |
National Reserve System Co-operative Program (Australian Nature Conservation Agency): Reserve selection project in the North-East Forests of New South Wales | 1992-94 | $50,000 |
Murray-Darling Basin Commission Natural Resource Management Strategy: Support for research on systematic reserve selection in western New South Wales with implications for the Murray-Darling Basin | 1991-94 | $122,000 |
States Co-operative Assistance Program (Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service): Compilation and review of wetland surveys in New South Wales | 1990-91 | $40,000 |
Western Lands Commission: Completion of digitised data base of land systems in the Western Division | 1990-91 | $8,000 |
States Co-operative Assistance Program (Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service): Testing new techniques for vegetation survey and reserve selection in south-eastern New South Wales (co-applicant) | 1989-91 | $30,500 |
National Estate Grant (Australian Heritage Commission): Assessment of conservation status and requirements of mammals and herpetofauna in the Western Division | 1988-90 | $24,000 |
National Estate Grant (Australian Heritage Commission): Updating property management plans for pastoral properties in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Region | 1987-88 | $30,000 |
States Co-operative Assistance Program (Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service): Development of data bases and reserve selection procedures for western New South Wales | 1986-88 | $38,500 |