Cassandra Rowe

Cassandra is a palaeoecologist and palynologist with experience working across northern Australia, Britain, Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia. Her research focusses on long-term environmental dynamics and human-environmental relationships within monsoonal regions, understanding vegetation composition, distribution and change with emphasis on tropical-savanna landscapes, dry-rainforest associations, mangroves, and island flora. The application of environmental history to ecosystem conservation-management is an additional commitment. Cassandra’s interests have been pursued in collaboration with archaeological science, geochemistry, and Earth-system modelling, complemented by work in research support-tool database developments.

Cassandra joined JCU in 2015 having previously worked at a number of academic institutions, and with a background collaborating with museums, conservation NGOs and Indigenous organisations. Additional experience includes contract research in industry within Australia and overseas. Cassandra is based within the College of Science and Engineering, participating in projects based within the Northern Territory, and forms part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage and ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures research teams. For further examples of project work refer to the Earth systems science BRIDGE program, the Archaeological Values of Marra Cultural Heritage, modern pollen-plant studies via VegeMap and the pollen morphology database APSA.  

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