The Team
Poh-Ling Tan
Poh-Ling Tan is a lawyer with an understanding of relationships between policy, law and the management of water resources. As an experienced educator she is able to communicate effectively in cross-cultural settings.
Kath Bowmer
Professor Kath Bowmer has qualifications in agricultural sciences and soil chemistry from the University of Nottingham (BSc (Hons) Ph D). She is a Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (MRACI); Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD); and in 1995 received the prestigious Pol Eureka Prize for Environmental Science.
Sue Jackson
Sue Jackson is a social scientist and a senior research scientist with SCIRO Sustainable Ecosystems. She is an Executive Member of TRaCK, and has acted as a consultant in social impact assessment and Indigenous NRM to Indigenous organisations such as Northern Land Council, Kimberley Land Council and NAILSMA (North Australian Land and Sea Management Alliance).
Wendy Proctor
Wendy Proctor is Leader, Water Sharing Stream, CSIRO Water for a Healthy country Flagship. She also directs the Policy and Economic Research Unit (PERU).
John Mackenzie
John Mackenzie is a research fellow in the Socio-Legal Research Centre at Griffith University with expertise in political sociology and the use of social science research methods for policy design, analysis and assessment.
Kristal Burry
Kristal has recently joined the Water Planning Tools team, Griffith Law School as a Research Fellow. She has completed a Master of Integrated Water Resource Management with the International Water Centre, where she was involved in multi-disciplinary research on water management, using tools from public health, policy, planning, aquatic ecology, community development and project management.
Carla Mooney
Carla Mooney started her professional life as a researcher in the NSW public service. She has continued to utilise these social research skills in the areas of environmental planning and natural resources management.
Claudia Baldwin
Claudia Baldwin has recently completed a review of 11 case studies for the NWC project 'Water Planning in Australia'. She has a comprehensive understanding of the diversity of water planning issues across the country.
Sharna Nolan (associate member)
Sharna Nolan joined CSIRO in July 2008. Sharna has an environmental and livelihoods background and has spent five years working with donors, government, farmers and traditional groups to develop strategies to improve rural livelihoods.
James Whelan (associate member)
James is an environmental sociologist with a particular interest in social movements, community action and community-based natural resource management.
