Dr Farzin Shabani

My current academic priority is the application of global dynamic vegetation models and several bioclimatic envelopes (correlative-based models) to examine the impact of future and palaeoclimate changes on surviving and extinct species (also see link).

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Since commencing employment at Flinders University in February 2018, I have traced the role of environmental fluctuations on the evolution of Australia’s natural history (plant communities) over spatial time scales (e.g. 200,000 years back). Why I focus on this activity? Through acquiring an understanding of how Australia’s endemic biota responded and adapted to periods of prolonged climatic stress, we can learn lessons that will support environment and society of the future.

• In 2021, I was invited to be a guest lecturer at Flinders University, offering the course ‘Introduction to Geographical Information Systems’.
• In 2021, I was called on by the Department of Regional NSW - Primary Industries (Weed Research Unit - Invasive Species Biosecurity) to provide a consultancy on the impacts of climate change on the Invasive Plants and Animals group of NSW DPI.
• I have also completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Macquarie University (two years). Prior to that, I served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New England (UNE) for two years.
• At UNE, I have been involved in teaching GIS, Remote Sensing and Image Analysis courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• At UNE, I was selected as one of the GIS specialists in the Commonwealth Department of Environment Pacific Climate Change Project for the Australian government during 2013 and 2014.

Co-supervision: I have co-supervised four PhD students, all of whom were awarded the degree.

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