Advisory Committee
The JRSRP Advisory Committee provide strategic advice to the JRSRP Steering Committee on the programs research plans, research priorities, technologies and forward planning strategies. Membership to the Advisory Committee is by invitation from the Steering Committee.
Professor Stuart Phinn - advisory committee chair
Director of Earth Observation Research Centre & Joint Remote Sensing Research Program
Professor at the School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
Stuart is a scientist, educator, and leader who builds and applies methods to measure and understand how our environments are changing at multiple scales (www.eorc.org.au). He works across collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams and organisations to deliver quality science that draws upon field-work, satellite-image data, and modelling, through: founding directorships of Australia national Earth observation coordination body (www.eoa.org.au) and collaborative research infrastructure (www.tern.org.au) and a world-leading research to operational program that supports government environmental monitoring (www.jrsrp.org.au); and program leadership of industry-driven research (www.smartsatcrc.com). Stuart’s work provides solutions to support sustainable development and resource use for all levels of government, various industries, and communities.
Norman Mueller
Director of Digital Earth Antarctica, Digital Earth Branch, Geoscience Australia
Norman Mueller is the Director of Digital Earth Antarctica within Digital Earth Branch in Geoscience Australia. Norman has worked in Earth observation analysis for the environment since 2002, and is one of the team involved in the creation of the Open Data Cube implementation at Geoscience Australia. Currently he leads a team of Earth Observation scientists and science communicators in utilising satellite information to create products that provide information of how Antarctica changes over time. His previous major work includes Water Observations from Space, which maps the surface water anywhere in Australia since 1987 and the DEA Land Cover product which depicts annual land cover from 1988 to 2020.
Professor Richard Lucas
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences
Aberystwyth University
Professor Richard Lucas is an internationally renowned researcher with expertise in quantifying and understanding the response of terrestrial ecosystems and environments to change, including that associated with climatic variation, through integration of remote sensing data from various sources. He is the Aberystwyth University Sêr Cymru research chair in Earth observation.
Graciela Metternicht
Western Sydney University
Professor Graciela Metternicht is an internationally recognised sustainability and environmental expert. Professor Metternicht brings extensive experience, strategic leadership and interdisciplinary knowledge to the role of Dean of Science at Western Sydney University.
Graciela's impressive career includes roles in academia, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as well as advisory roles with the Global Environment Facility, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment and the Australian Academy of Science. This professional transition between academia and government has given her unique expertise in translational research and science-policy interface related to environmental management and sustainability.
Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black is the retired Director of Remote Sensing and Landscape Science at the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
He graduated from the University of New England in 1984 with a Bachelor of Natural Resource Management under Professor John Burton.
Over a career of 38 years in the public service, Jeremy has worked across a broad range of thematic areas of natural resource management . He has specialised in the application remote sensing and spatial analysis to resource management policy and regulation. He was responsible for developing and delivering the NSW version of State and Land and Tree cover program (SLATS) for over 10 years and the implementation of the Native Vegetation Regulatory map used for regulating rural land clearing and reporting under the NSW Local Land Services Act 2016. He has led and supported his teams to develop innovative ways to apply remote sensing technologies such as multi-temporal pattern recognition, aerial and terrestrial LiDAR, digital aerial imagery and drone based thermal imagery and machine learning imager processing and detection.
Dr Jasmine Muir
Spatial Architect at Landgate, Western Australia Government
Jasmine Muir is an experienced manager and consultant at the interface of technology and environmental applications using Earth observation. Working across research, government and the private sectors, I have successfully led teams to deliver complex projects in agriculture, mining, forestry and conservation. PhD from the University of Queensland, in terrestrial laser scanning, for vegetation structure and biodiversity. Technical background with High Performance Computing and programming in Python, R and SQL.