I am thrilled to have won an ARC Laureate Fellowship!
The goal of my fellowship research is to build a dynamic vegetation model (DVM) focusing on Australian vegetation. My plan is to build a community model to bring a wide range of different types of data together that will allow us to identify the factors that determine Australian vegetation distribution, and make predictions for the kinds of vegetation shifts that we might expect in the near future as climate change gets underway. We’ve needed this model for a long time – this fellowship will provide the resources to make it a reality.