Mark Kennard
Griffith University

Professor Mark Kennard

Eastern node leader

Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University

Deputy Dean (Research), Griffith Sciences

See Professor Kennard’s full research profile here.

E: m.kennard@griffith.edu.au

Research outputs linked to policy change and decision-making

Current academic employment and positions

  • 2021–present: professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
  • 2019–present: Deputy Dean (Research) –Sciences Group, Griffith University
  • 2020–2021: project leader, Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery Program. ‘GA-2000150 – Threatened species assessment and recovery in burnt coastal wallum wetlands’
  • 2021–2024: research theme leader, Murray–Darling Basin Authority, Murray–Darling water & environment research program theme 3: environmental outcomes
  • 2020–2021: project leader, Australian Department of the Environment and Energy. ‘Beetaloo Geological and Bioregional Assessment region baseline survey program’
  • 2020–2021: project leader, Queensland Department of Environment and Science: Research, Development and Innovation Priorities for the Queensland Water Modelling Network. ‘Modelling surface water availability to inform water security for freshwater biodiversity and human society in a changing climate’
  • 2018–2020: project leader: NESP NAERH.

Highest qualification

  • 2005: PhD, Griffith University, Queensland.

Major prizes, medals and honours

  • Whitley Medal from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for the book ‘Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes’ (Eds) P. Humphries & K. Walker, CSIRO Publishing. The Whitley Medal is the most sought-after prize in zoological publishing in Australia
  • Griffith University Post-doctoral Fellowship (funding for 3 years)
  • Whitley Medal (with co-authors Brad Pusey and Angela Arthington) from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for the book ‘Freshwater Fishes of North-Eastern Australia’, CSIRO Publishing
  • PhD Thesis Academic Excellence award, Office of Graduate Studies, Griffith University.

Roles on government or regional organisation committees

  • 2020: expert panel member, Queensland Department of Environment and Science – analysis of 2019/2020 bushfire impacts on conservation values in Queensland
  • 2020: expert panel member, Queensland Department of Environment and Science risk specialist group informing review of environmental regulation of resource activities in Queensland
  • 2012–2013: technical advisory group member, Murray–Darling Basin aquatic ecosystem classification project, Commonwealth Environmental Water Office
  • 2012–2013: scientific panel member, Cape York Peninsula World Heritage nomination, Commonwealth Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
  • 2012: science review panel member, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Victorian Government Department of Sustainability and Environment
  • 2009: science review panel member, Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce
  • 2000–2006: technical advisory panel member, Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water ‘Water Resource Plans for the Mary, Logan and Burnett River Basins’
  • 1999–present: Mary River Cod recovery team member, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries.

Links with non-government groups or networks

  • Professor Kennard maintains strong collaborative links with many natural resource management groups, Indigenous groups, and professional societies.

My Projects

Current projectCompleted project
NESP RLH, 2021-2027NESP, 2015-2021NERP, 2012-2015TRaCK, 2005-present

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