Independent Science Committee.
The Independent Science Committee (ISC) is a technical body that meets regularly to review and provide advice on the suitability of Methods for use under the Accounting for Nature® Framework for accreditation. To ensure Methods are of the highest scientific standard, the members of the Committee have been selected from a wide range of disciplines and are some of the most highly respected experts in their fields. Environmental Accounts submitted to be certified by Accounting for Nature® must be based on a Method approved by the Committee.
Mike Grundy - Chair
is former Research Director - Soil and Landscapes in the Agriculture and Food Business unit of CSIRO, which aims to increase productivity and maintain environmental health while meeting food demand over the coming decades. His research program observes and predicts trends across agricultural and forestry landscapes and seeks to understand the interconnection of economy and environment.
Dr Suzanne Prober
is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Land and Water in Perth, Western Australia. Her research is centred on managing and restoring the natural diversity, ecosystem function, and resilience of vegetation communities, with a long-standing interest in balancing production, cultural and economic values with nature conservation, particularly in temperate eucalypt woodlands.
A/Prof Bradley Moggridge
is a proud Kamilaroi man (North-West NSW) living in Canberra on Ngunnawal land. He is an environmental hydrogeologist and currently an Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science at the University of Canberra. He has 25 years’ experience in water and environmental science, cultural science, regulation, Indigenous engagement, water policy and hydrogeology, and is the President of the Australian Freshwater Science Society (AFSS) a board member with the NSW EPA and the Biodiversity Council, a member of the Wentworth Group, a WWF Australia Governor and a Fellow of the Peter Cullen Trust.
Dr Rebecca Bartley
is a Research Scientist with CSIRO Land and Water. Her primary research interest has been the development of field experiments and monitoring projects that underpin and support large scale catchment models that are used to predict sediment and nutrient loads in Australia’s coastal catchments.
Prof Fran Sheldon
is Head of School, School of Environment and Science, in the Griffith Sciences Group at Griffith University and a Research Member in the Australian Rivers Institute. Her research explores the relationships between hydrology, physical geomorphology and ecology in river systems, particularly large dryland rivers such as those of the Murray-Darling Basin and the Lake Eyre Basin.
Prof Owen T Nevin
is the CEO of the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI) and is an experienced conservation biologist and research leader with more than 25 years’ experience in the conservation and management of large carnivores globally and extensive experience in senior leadership in higher education and research. He has held significant positions including as Head of the National School of Forestry (UK) and Associate Vice-Chancellor at CQUniversity Australia. In 2008 he was elected as a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and 2017 was appointed as Anniversary Visiting Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cumbria. He holds an Adjunct Professorship at CQUniversity and a Ministerial appointment to the Western Australian Biosecurity Council.
Prof Sarah Legge
is a Professor at the Australian National University and a Principal Research Fellow with the University of Queensland. She is a wildlife ecologist with 30 years of research and conservation management experience with a strong interest in monitoring and adaptive management to improve understanding of the impacts of threats (especially fire and feral animals) on threatened and declining species.
Prof Max Finlayson
is a wetland ecologist who has worked extensively on the inventory, assessment and monitoring of wetland biodiversity and ecosystem services, in particular in tropical and sub-tropical climatic regimes, and covering pollution, invasive species and climate change. He has participated in global assessments such as those conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Global Environment Outlook, Water Management in Agriculture, and the Global Wetland Outlook, and since the early 1990s has been a technical adviser to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.