Laura Canevari Luzardo

Research Assistant, February 2011 – current

Honours, University of Queensland, February 2010-October 2010 (Jointly supervised with Prof. Norm Duke)

Email: l.canevari@uqconnect.edu.au

Phone: +61 7 3365 2494

I am a recently graduated coastal manager with a variety of interests including climate adaptation, resilience building and coastal dynamics.

My Honours project consisted of looking at the impacts of land use change in mangrove communities of Moreton Bay (SEQ) using systems analysis, GIS, soil analysis and spatial statistics.

I am currently working on the publication of my thesis, as well as in a new project that is part of the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Research (SEQCARI) project. On this project I will estimate changes in nutrient runoff determined by precipitation and urbanization. I will then use these estimates to determine changes in primary productivity and fisheries production in the estuarine food webs of Moreton Bay. For this purpose I will use a range of predictive modelling software and spatial analysis tools including ArcGIS and EcoPath.