Having locals identify environmental research needs for their own community is a key step to ensuring that research is relevant, appropriate and desirable for communities.
Professor Steve Williams is a Professor at James Cook University’s Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change (CTBCC). He received his doctorate in 1998 from JCU and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from 1997-1999 in the Rainforest CRC. His research was the first to identify global climate change as a severe threatening process in the tropics and to predict the possibility of species extinctions in mountain systems around the world.
Professor Jones is a Professor in the School of Marine and Tropical Biology at JCU and maintains a large graduate group studying interactions between reef fish ecology, behaviour and life histories.