Dr Nicholas Murray is a Senior Lecturer in Global Ecology and Conservation at James Cook University. Nick is based in the Marine Biology and Aquaculture group.
Nick's research focuses on delivering the science necessary to inform local-to-global scale environmental management and conservation. He works the interface of ecology, geospatial science and geography, and has ongoing research projects focused around quantifying change in ecosystems and wildlife populations. He has published extensively in the scientific literature on ecosystem dynamics, earth observation, global change, migration ecology and conservation science. Nick travels far and wide to study Earth's changing environments and has a number of projects working on several of the world's most remote ecosystems.
Nick's work has been recognised with awards including the Eureka Prize (as part of a global conservation team), the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, and the Australian Academy of Science ASPIRE Prize for innovation. He is an active member of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems global team and serves as an Associate Editor for Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation and Remote Sensing.
Nick's lab website (http://www.globalecologylab.org) reports recent news, publications, and open-source datasets and software developed in our group. You can also read profiles on Nick's research in Nature (Ecology's remote-sensing revolution) and Science (Mud on the move).
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Oct 11 2025 (08:30 - 10:30)