Dr Matthew Colloff ‘Landscapes of our hearts’

The talk will be about the evolving relationship between people and landscapes; how non-Indigenous Australians are re-framing their perspectives on the nature of the Australian environment and how these perspectives contrast with; but also overlap, those of Indigenous Australians.

Biography

Dr Matthew Colloff is a Visiting Fellow, at the Fenner School, ANU and a Principal Research Scientist, Land & Water National Research Flagship, CSIRO.

Matt’s primary research areas include science to underpin natural resource management and policy; particularly in relation to water resources, ecosystem functions and services of wetlands and how they are affected by climate change.

Matt's adaptive landscapes in which most of his research is done are the floodplains and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin.  His latest book, Flooded Forest and Desert Creek (CSIRO Publishing) is on the ecology and history of the river red gum, Australia’s most widely-distributed eucalypt species.