Dr Josie Carwardine
Pronouns: she,her,hers
Senior Research Scientist
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BRISBANE QLD 4001 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Josie is a team leader and interdisciplinary scientist within CSIRO’s Environment Business Unit, specialising in decision science for biodiversity and the sustainable management of our natural world. Her research seeks to solve pressing local to global environmental challenges, using multi-disciplinary tools to understand stakeholders’ values, and connect these with the best available quantitative and qualitative information to guide outcomes for biodiversity, ecosystems, and people.
Josie leads in the co-development of planning, prioritisation and learning approaches that are fit-for-purpose to solve sustainability challenges faced by our partners, clients, collaborators, and stakeholders. Her research aims to enable decision makers to make more confident, effective and supported decisions that create better outcomes for nature and society. More recently, Josie is also pursuing integrated approaches to mainstreaming biodiversity and nature as part of cross-sectoral, sustainability decision making, seeking transformative benefits for biodiversity, people and organisations.
Josie leads the Adapting for Nature Team (ANT), in the Sustainability Pathways Program, based in Brisbane and Canberra, who work on integrated research to improve human wellbeing and address the biodiversity crisis.
Josie's recent research highlights include:
Leader of project team developing the Queensland Threatened Species Prioritisation Framework, to be delivered in December 2024. https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/conservation/threatened-species/our-work-and-partners/program
Collaborator on Australia's first Monitoring Evaluation and Research Network to improve evidence for decision making - with a focus on fire and weed management.
https://research.csiro.au/mer/Led the development of the development of the Priority Threat Management approach from 2012-2022, which is a participatory science tool for assessing alternative scenarios for managing threats to nature across land and seascapes. It has been used to highlight cost-effective management strategies across one fifth of the Australian continent and is informing large scale conservation investment in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions. It is now being applied in Canada, Indonesia and Antarctica. For more details see - https://www.csiro.au/en/research/natural-environment/biodiversity/Conservation-decisions
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.13268Co-led projects in the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Threatened Species Recovery Hub (2018-2022), focusing on quantifying the costs of threat management actions, and the co-development of cross-cultural approaches for planning and engaging in threatened species management on Indigenous lands.
https://www.nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au/people/josie-carwardine
Previous background:
Josie has a bachelor of Applied Environmental Science with First Class Honours from The University of Queensland, and a PhD in Conservation Planning supervised by Stefan Hajkowicz at CSIRO and Dr Hugh Possingham and Kerrie Wilson at The University of Queensland, which was completed in 2010. She has worked on ecological assessment and decision science in research institutions in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Professional Areas
Fields of Research
Current Roles
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Team Leader
Josie currently leads the external project team developing the Queensland Threatened Species Prioritisation Framework, to be delivered in December 2024. https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/conservation/threatened-species/our-work-and-partners/program -
Team Member
Josie collaborates on a project that is piloting Australia's first Monitoring Evaluation and Research Network to improve evidence for decision making - with a focus on fire and weed management. https://research.csiro.au/mer/ -
Team member
Integrated Spatial Prioritisation tool for NSW saving out species program
Academic Qualifications
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2002
Bachelor Applied Science, Environmental Science with honours class 1
University of Queensland -
2010
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Queensland
Professional Experiences
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2020-2024
Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO -
2012-2020
Research Scientist
CSIRO -
2009-2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
CSIRO
Achievements and Awards
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2016-2019
Julius Career Award
CSIRO -
2018-2018
CSIRO Medal for Indigenous Engagmenet
CSIRO -
2012-2012
AAAI Computational Sustainability Best Paper Award
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence -
2011-2012
Payne Scott Award
CSIRO -
2010-2010
Endeavour Award
Australian Government Dept Education and Training
Other highlights
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2008-2008
Visiting Scholar - Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology
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2017-2017
Priority Threat Management for Antarctic Biodiversity Workshop - Belgium (fully supported)
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2016-2018
Priority Threat Management for ecological and cultural outcomes in West Bali National Park
Publications
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