Macquarie University
Nick is studying his PhD at Macquarie University looking at the temporal ecological and geomorphic changes of coastal floodplains in Northern Australia. He is working on Yolngu country in Arnhem Land and is working in partnership with the Yirralka Rangers of the Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area.
Prior to starting his PhD with Macquarie, Nick worked with the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention) Secretariat in Switzerland. Here he was tasked with helping the contracting parties of Asia and Oceania meet their obligations of the Convention.
Nick also studied a Master of Environmental Management at the University of Tasmania conducting research on the vulnerability of mangroves to climate change in the Pacific.
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