People
Tatsuya Amano
As a conservation scientist, Tatsuya is working on understanding changes in global biodiversity and providing scientific evidence for its conservation. Through his work and his background as a conservation scientist originally from Japan, he has become increasingly interested in, and is committed to, unveiling the importance and consequences of language barriers in conservation and more broadly in science. Tatsuya is currently a UQ Amplify Senior Lecturer based at the School of the Environment and the Deputy Director in Research at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, the University of Queensland, Australia.
Violeta Berdejo-Espinola
Violeta is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in multilingual evidence synthesis, working on multilingual literature searches with global collaboration as well as the use of text classifiers based on machine learning approaches. She has a multicultural and multidisciplinary background ranging from environmental management, conservation, and urban planning. Through her work, she had become interested in the way humans benefit from and impact natural environments and biodiversity in different landscapes. Violeta was a senior research technician for the project during the past four years and is also finishing her PhD at the School of the Environment/Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, the University of Queensland, Australia.
Also see: https://cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/1116/violeta-berdejo-espinola
Marina Corella Tor
Marina is a PhD student at The University of Queensland, working under the supervision of Dr Tatsuya Amano and Prof Richard Fuller. After working as a Research Assistant in the Fuller Lab for the last two years, they are very excited to turn all that work into a PhD. Marina hopes to uncover the current state of international environmental agreements and legislation around migratory bird protection worldwide. They are also interested in the effect of language barriers on international migratory bird agreements across the world.
Kelsey Hannah
Kelsey is a PhD Student at The University of Queensland, working under the supervision of Dr Tatsuya Amano. She has an interest in understanding gaps and barriers in implementing conservation science in a way that can promote meaningful improvements. Her research will support the translatE project, focusing on understanding how language barriers can negatively impact the application of science in decision making as well as assessing the importance of non-english conservation science.
Haonan Wei
Haonan is an honours student majoring in environmental science at The University of Queensland. Her childhood experiences, which had been filled with nature documentaries, provided her with vicarious connections to nature and thus drove her to study her current major. She has a strong interest in the role of popular science as an important medium to gain public attention to environmental issues, and is working on the consequences of language barriers in nature documentaries.
UQ previous members
Henry Arenas-Castro
Henry was a Senior Research Technician assessing the commitment of journals in organismal biology to overcoming language barriers in academic publishing. He finished his PhD on the study of gametic interactions, where he explored the forces that drive the evolution of pollen-pistil interactions in plants and its consequences for speciation. He combines quantitative genetics and population genomics to understand how pollen competes for fertilising an ovule as well as the various mechanisms of cryptic female choice.
Also see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=js2_BV4AAAAJ&hl=en
Pablo Negret
Pablo was a Senior Research Technician for the project helping to understand the impact of language differences in conservation outcomes for vertebrate species. He recently finished his PhD in ecology and biodiversity conservation, particularly understanding how different biological and anthropic factors affect biodiversity patterns and conservation outcomes in the South American tropics. He has also worked in different ecology and conservation projects, including assisted nesting of Arrau and yellow-spotted river turtles, camera trapping and vegetation plots in the Yasuní national park in Ecuador and big cat conservation and ecology with Panthera in Colombia.
Also see: https://cbcs.centre.uq.edu.au/profile/118/pablo-negret
Collaborators (groups)
Conservation Evidence Project, University of Cambridge (UK)
https://www.conservationevidence.com/
Landscape & Macroecology Lab, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan)
http://web.tuat.ac.jp/~leco/
Collaborators (individuals)
It is the hard work and dedication of our collaborators listed below that has enabled us to achieve what we have so far, and will continue to help us push on. We thank you for sharing our passion and look forward to continuing working with you in the years to come.
| Collaborator | Affiliation, Country | Language |
| Munemtsu Akasaka | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan | Japanese |
| Milton Andrade | University of Queensland, Australia | Portuguese |
| András Báldi | Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungary | Hungarian |
| Zeenatul Basher | Michigan State University, USA | |
| Anna Berthinussen | University of Leeds, UK | |
| Sandro Bertolino | University of Turin, Italy | Italian |
| Andrew Bladon | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| Ndayizeye Blaise | Gitega’s Polytechnique University, Burundi | French |
| Israel Borokini | University of Nevada, USA | English |
| Nayara Braga Emidio | University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Julia Checco | University of Queensland, Australia | Italian |
| Min Chen | East China Normal University, China | Simplified Chinese |
| Chang-Yong Choi | Seoul National University, Republic of Korea | Korean |
| Shawan Chowdhury | University of Queensland, Australia | Bangla |
| Alec Christie | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| F. Gözde Çilingir | University of Zurich, Switzerland | Turkish |
| Geoffroy Citegetse | BirdLife International, Sénégal | French |
| Marina Corella Tor | University of Queensland, Australia | Catalan/Spanish |
| Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat | Université Saint-Joseph, Lebanon | Arabic |
| Luis Gustavo de Oliveira | Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK | Portuguese |
| Szymon Drobniak | University of New South Wales, Australia | Polish |
| Emma Dunne | ||
| Perla Farhat | Université Saint-Joseph, Lebanon | Arabic |
| Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares | University of Helsinki, Finland | |
| Graham Fulton | University of Queensland, Australia | English |
| Sylvaine Giakoumi | University of Queensland, Australia | Greek |
| Marina Golivets | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany | Ukrainian |
| Juan David González‐Trujillo | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain | Spanish |
| Tuyeni Heita Mwampamba | National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico | |
| Francisco Henao Diaz | The University of British Columbia, Canada | |
| Nataly Hidalgo Aranzamendia | CONSULTYS Life Sciences Consultant Group, Belgium | Spanish |
| Mihaela Ion | Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, Romania | Romanian |
| Aubrey James | University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Kerstin Jantke | Universität Hamburg, Germany | German |
| Javiera Jara | Spanish | |
| Pedro Jaureguiberry | Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina | |
| Joanna Kajzer-Bonk | Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, Poland | Polish |
| Avneet Kaur | University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Cisel Kemahli | Koc University, Turkey | Turkish |
| Rassim Khelifa | The University of British Columbia, Canada | Arabic/French |
| Igor Khorozyan | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany | Russian |
| Cathernine Kim | University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Kensuke Kito | University of Tokyo, Japan | Japanese |
| Ko Konno | Bangor University, UK | Japanese |
| Malgorzata Lagisz | University of New South Wales, Australia | |
| Felicia Lasmana | HCV Resource Network, Indonesia | Indonesian |
| Michelle Lim | Macquarie University, Australia | |
| Da-Li Lin | University of Queensland, Australia | Traditional Chinese |
| Hsien-Yung Lin | Carleton University, Canada | Traditional Chinese |
| Nick Littlewood | Scotland’s Rural College, UK | English |
| Yifan Liu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | Simplified Chinese |
| Eric Lopez | Centro de Estudios Ambientales y Biodiversidad CEAB-UVG, Guatemala | Spanish |
| Matthias Loreto | Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany | German |
| Abigail J. Lynch | U.S. Geological Survey, USA | English |
| Valentina Marconi | Institute of Zoology, UK | Italian |
| Philip Martin | Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain | English |
| Chantelle May Derez | University of Queensland, Australia | English |
| Iliana Medina Guzman | University of Melbourne, Australia | Spanish |
| Peter Mikula | Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia | Slovak/Czech |
| Flavia Montaño-Centellas | Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia | Spanish |
| Lucia Morales | University of Queensland, Australia | Spanish |
| William Morgan | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| Anne-Christine Mupepele | University of Freiburg, Germany | German |
| Shinichi Nakagawa | University of New South Wales, Australia | Japanese |
| Vikram Narayan | University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Juan Pablo Narvaez-Gomez | Insitute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo, Brazil | Spanish-Portuguese |
| Viktor Natykanets | Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Bioresources, Belarus | Russian |
| Pablo Negret | University of Queensland, Australia | Spanish |
| Hieu Nguyen Thi | University of Queensland, Australia | Vietnamese |
| Sa Nogueira Lisboa | Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique | Portuguese |
| Elham Nourani | Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany | Persian |
| Martin Nuñez | University of Houston, USA | Spanish |
| Christopher O’Bryan | University of Queensland, Australia | English |
| Jose Manuel Ochoa Quintero | Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia | Spanish |
| Nancy Ockendon | Endangered Landscapes Programme, The Cambridge Conservation Initiative, UK | English |
| Rachel Oh | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany | Simplified Chinese |
| Ekaterina Ovsyanikova | University of Queensland, Australia | Russian |
| Ignacio Palomo | CNRS-Université Grenoble Alpes-Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, France | |
| Kumar Paudel | Greenhood Nepal, Nepal | Nepalese |
| Diego Pavòn-Jordàn | Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway | Spanish |
| Katharina-Victoria Perez-Hammerle | University of Queensland, Australia | English |
| Silviu Petrovan | University of Cambridge, UK | Romanian |
| Ana Cláudia Piovezan Borges | Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil | Portuguese |
| Ingrid Pollet | Acadia University, Canada | French |
| Patrice Pottier | University of New South Wales, Australia | French |
| Graham Prescott | University of Bern, Switzerland | French |
| Nussaibah Raja | Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany | |
| Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda | University of California, Berkeley, USA | Spanish |
| Danielle Ramos | Plantem – Plant Technology and Environmental Monitoring, Brazil | Portuguese |
| Ana Reboredo Segovia | Boston University, USA | French |
| Nayelli Rivera | CIIDIR Unidad Durango, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico | Spanish |
| Ricardo Rocha | University of Porto/University of Lisbon, Portugal | Portuguese |
| Argelia Rodriguez | University of Queensland, Australia | Spanish |
| Astrid Rodriguez Acevedo | University of Queensland, Australia | Spanish |
| Marie-Morgane Rouyer | CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, France | French |
| Andes Rozak | Research Center for Plant Conservation and Botanic Gardens, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia | Indonesian |
| Katie Sainsbury | University of Alberta, Canada | English |
| Farah Abel Samad | Saint-Joseph University, Lebanon | Arabic |
| Aibek Samakov | Aigine Cultural Research Center, Kyrgyzstan | |
| Richard Schuter | Carleton University, Canada | German |
| Dominik Schwab | University of Göttingen, Germany | German |
| Marko Šćiban | University of Novi Sad, Serbia | Serbian |
| Cagan Sekercioglu | University of Utah, USA | Turkish |
| Odirilwe Selomane | Stellenbosch University, South Africa | |
| Pedro Sena | Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil | Portuguese |
| Hae-Min Seo | Seoul National University, Republic of Korea | Korean |
| Gorm Shackelford | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| Yushin Shinoda | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan | Japanese |
| Rebecca Smith | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| Nicola Sockhill | University of Queensland, Australia | English |
| William Sutherland | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| Shan-dar Tao | University of Ryukyus, Japan | Traditional Chinese |
| Anazelia Tedesco | University of Queensland, Australia | Portuguese |
| Francisco Tiapa | University of Queensland, Australia | Spanish |
| Ming-shan Tsai | University of Oxford, UK | Traditional Chinese |
| Jo-szu (Ross) Tsai | National Chiayi University, Taiwan | Traditional Chinese |
| Elizabeth Tyler | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| Flóra Vajna | University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Hungary | Hungarian |
| Jose Valdebenito Chavez | University of Bath, UK | Spanish |
| Diogo Veríssimo | University of Oxford, UK | Portuguese |
| Jaramar Villarreal Rosas | University of Queensland, Australia | Spanish |
| Svetlana Vozykova | ITMO University, Russia | Russian |
| Pawel Waryszak | Deakin University, Australia | Polish |
| Alison Wee | University of Nottingham Malaysia, Malaysia | Malay |
| Rachel White | University of Brighton, UK | English |
| Kate Willott | University of Cambridge, UK | English |
| Hui Xiao | Deakin University, Australia | Simplified Chinese |
| Masato Yamamichi | University of Queensland, Australia | Japanese |
| Liu Yang | Sun Yat-sen University, China | Simplified Chinese |
| Veronica Zamora | CONACYT-CIIDIR Unidad Durango, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico | Spanish |
| Rafael D. Zenni | Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil | Portuguese |
| Wenjun Zhou | Sun Yat-sen University, China | Simplified Chinese |