Associate ProfessorGeoffrey Wescott

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Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences

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    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Knowledge Areas
Environmental policy, planning and management with an emphasis on nature
conservation and marine/ coastal environments.

Projects
How universities can aid and abet conservation is the major current project
which will be supported by a brief academic study leave vist to Harvard
Forests and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in April to June 2015.

Geoff is also co-editing a CSIRO publication on Marine Protected Areas in
Australia.

Continuing work with marine and coastal policy development in Victoria and
Australia continues.

GRANTS

  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Current state of estuary protection, restoration and management in southern Australia
    31 Jul 2014 - 31 Dec 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Wescott G,
    • Koss R
    The Nature Conservancy Limited as Trustee for The Nature Conservancy Australia Trust - $15,000.00
  • GRANT
    Addressing institutional and social barriers to science impact in Coastal Zone Management (CSIRO Flagship Cluster)
    15 Dec 2009 - 30 Jun 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    CSIRONRF Grant - Wealth from Oceans - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - $307,856.99
  • GRANT
    Sea search: Community-based monitoring of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Victoria
    1 Jul 2005 - 31 Dec 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Geoffrey Wescott
    Parks Victoria Grant - Research - $4,000.00