Prospective students

I am available to supervise Honours, Masters and PhD students. I am happy to any discuss potential projects with prospective students, particularly when students bring their own ideas – please get in touch: greetj@unimelb.edu.au. Here are a few potential project themes relating to my current work:

Making rivers great again! Assessing the potential of environmental flows to restore native riparian plant communities

In partnership with the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, we are seeking student/s to investigate the potential for environmental flows to restore native riparian vegetation. Increasingly, water is being returned to rivers as “environmental flows” to improve their health, including the restoration of native riparian vegetation. Better knowledge of the relationships between river flows and riparian vegetation dynamics is required to best target environmental flows. We are seeking student/s for research investigating vegetation flow-ecology relationships via a combination of nursery and field-based experiments, and/or interrogation of a large existing dataset. These projects would be jointly supported by the Arthur Rylah Institute and The University of Melbourne.

Managing feral deer impacts.

Populations of feral deer in Australia are increasing and so are their impacts to ecosystems. We have several opportunities for students to research the impacts caused by introduced deer and how best to manage them. Projects may include field-based surveys, analyses of existing datasets and working with land managers such as Melbourne Water, Parks Victoria and community groups. Research will be co-supervised by Drs Ami Bennett and Joe Greet and be based within the Waterway Ecosystem Research Group, a supportive and collegiate research group.

Caring for Birrarung’s billabongs. Determining appropriate wetland management in partnership with Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung’s Narrap (‘Country’) Team.

This project involves working with Wurundjeri’s Narrap team to determine appropriate environmental watering regimes to improve billabong health and restore Country..

For other opportunities for research within the Waterway Ecosystem Research Group, check here.