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Dr Melissa Wartman

Project Coordinator BRP Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration

Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University, Burwood campus
221 Burwood Hwy, VIC 3125

m.wartman@deakin.edu.au

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Melissa's research

Melissa completed her Bachelor of Science (Honours/Co-op) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada in Marine Biology and Oceanography. Her studies covered a range of topics in marine biology, limnology and oceanography, while her cooperative job placements gave her hands-on work experience in these fields. For her honours thesis, she investigated the state of ocean acidification in a pristine fjord on the west coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

Once finished her BSc, she moved to Melbourne Australia, where she recently completed her PhD under John Beardall in the Algal Physiology Lab, at Monash University. Her thesis investigated how key environmental drivers associated with climate change affect phytoplankton growth, and physiology in the Gippsland Lakes, a eutrophic estuarine lake system. She was also a primary investigator on an interdisciplinary project with the Algal Physiology Lab, Monash Water Studies Centre and Monash Centre for Biospectroscopy, investigating the feasibility of utilizing FPA-FTIR as a tool for ecosystem and water quality monitoring. Through her academic and professional experience, she has developed a broad set of skills including experimental design, data analysis and field experience.

Melissa has taken on the role of project coordinator for the BRP Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Project. In this role Melissa will work alongside the various stakeholders and traditional owner groups, to ensure successful completion of ~600 ha of wetland restoration through on-ground works and the development of a wetland and conservation strategy.

Keywords

Victorian Coastal Wetland Restoration #VicWetlandRehab, saltmarsh, restoration, Victoria, BRP

 

Career Highlights

  • 2020 Victorian finalist for the IKON Services Environmental Sustainability Award (2020)
  • Blue Grants, Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust(SeyCCAT), Seychelles (2020)
  • PRESS2020: Peer-Reviewed ECR Support Scheme – Blue Carbon Citizen Science Workshops (2020)
  • PRESS2020: Peer-Reviewed ECR Support Scheme – Monitoring soil carbon cycling during saltmarsh degradation and restoration: a microcosm approach (2020)
  • Australian Ethical Foundation Grant– Cost Benefit Analysis for Coastal Wetland Restoration (2019)
  • Science and Society Network Establishment Grant: Shifting the Flow, a journey through an Australian wetland (2019)
  • Community Climate Change Adaptation grant from DELWP Victoria, Australia (2019)
  • Monash Postgraduate Publication Award (2018)
  • Joanna Jones Student Travel Grant (2018)
  • Monash Graduate Research Travel Grant (2017-2018)
  • Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (2015, 2016, 2017)
  • Denis and Maisie Carr Travel Grant (2016)
  • VEAC Bill Borthwick Research Grant (2015)
  • MGS and Faculty of Science Dean’s IPRS PhD Stipend & Tuition (2014-2018)

Selected media

Blue Carbon: what is it and why do we care? Connected to Port Phillip blog (2019)

StoryMaps tutorial. Recorded talk. Centre for Integrative Ecology seminar (2020)

E18: Blue Carbon – how wetlands and coastal fringes could save the planet GippslandScapes podcast. West Gippsland CMA (2020)

Farmers place fresh value on Gippsland saltmarshes to earn blue carbon credits. ABC Gippsland (2022)

Farmers ready for new carbon credit opportunities. ABC News (2022)

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  • About
    • What we are about
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      • Professor Peter Macreadie
      • Dr Paul Carnell
      • Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett
      • Dr Maria del Mar Palacios
      • Dr Pawel Waryszak
      • Dr Melissa Wartman
      • Dr Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa
      • Dr Noyan Yilmaz
      • Dr Martino Malerba
      • Dr Lukas Schuster
      • Dr Tiffany Sih
      • Dr Christina Asanopoulos
      • Dr Tanveer Adyel
      • Dr Valentina Hurtado-McCormick
      • Dr Elodie Camprasse
      • Dr Sabiha Marine
      • Interns and Volunteers
      • Alumni
  • Research
    • Wetland Carbon
      • Blue Carbon
        • Seychelles Blue Carbon
        • Queensland Blue
        • Victoria’s Blue Carbon
        • Blue Carbon Management
      • Teal Carbon
        • Farm Dams
        • Teal Wetlands for Carbon Offsetting
        • Victoria’s Teal Carbon
      • TeaComposition H2O
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Ecosystem Restoration
      • Wetland Restoration
      • Kelp & Seagrass restoration
      • Maximising Teal Carbon capture
    • Citizen science
      • HSBC citizen science
      • GeelongPort citizen science
    • Microplastics
    • Marine Biosecurity
    • Decommissioning Infrastructure
  • Services
    • Wetland Carbon Assessments
    • Environmental Assessments
    • Environmental Restoration
    • Citizen Science
    • System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA)
    • Feasibility Assessments
    • Remote Sensing
    • Microbial Analysis
    • Marine Biosecurity
  • Publications
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