Our Team
Rose Andrew
Dr. Rose Andrew is a plant molecular ecologist at UNE. She has a diverse background in the ecology, genetics and evolution of wild and domesticated organisms. Her focus in this project is on the effects of fragmentation and hybridization on the distribution and performance of the four key tree species.
Michael Hewins
Michael is the lead project officer with the Trees on The Tablelands project. Previously he has worked closely with local landholders to support them in their regeneration and revegetation projects. He is also establishing seed orchards for the focal TEC species and working on further population demographic research. Michael is passionate about biodiversity conservation and developing effective rehabilitation programs.
John Hunter
Dr. John Hunter is an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNE with a background in biogeography and landscape ecology. He is one of the foremost field botanists working in Australia. His role in the project has been to identify remaining stands of the two threatened ecological communities, and to guide the data collection and management techniques necessary to restore them. John also owns three bush blocks and manages a number of other properties restoring vegetation and maintaining biodiversity.
C. E. Timothy Paine
Dr. C. E. Timothy Paine is a community ecologist who studies the structure and dynamics of plant communities. He is fascinated by the challenge of predicting and managing the future of ecological communities. In this project, he focuses on the demography of the threatened tree species, and the management techniques that can be used to help to restore them.
Ben Vincent
Ben is key to the project. Not only having extensive field experience, he also brings great passion to this project. Ben owns a bush block south of Armidale, and is actively restoring the threatened woodland communities found there. For him, this project is not only a good idea, but offers a vision of what the New England Tablelands once were, and what they could be again.
Martin Dillon
Martin Dillon splits his time between UNE, where he pursues a PhD in Zoology, and the Northern Tablelands branch of Local Land Services, where he is on the Environment team.
Jeremy Bruhl
Prof. Jeremy J. Bruhl is a botanist and systematist specializing in the sedges, Cyperaceae. He is involved in studies on a wide range of Australian plant groups including Acacia and Eucalyptus. His focus in this project is on the effects of fragmentation on the four key tree species, and on their species delimitations.
Damien Andrew
Damien Andrew is doing a fourth-year honours degree at UNE, focused on the boundaries which differentiate a set of Eucalyptus species, including three of the four examined in this study.