Carly Cook

	A/Professor Carly Cook Head, Conservation Management Research Group T: +61 3 990 55642 E: carly.cook@monash.edu Monash University Researcher Profile - including biography, publications and grants Research Group Website Google Scholar

Research Overview

Carly's research group are focused on improving the use of scientific information in environmental decisions through a range of applied research questions and by developing decision-support tools. Her current research interests include:

• understanding the types of evidence conservation managers use and why
• evaluating and improving tools for evidence-based conservation, such as systematic reviews, management effectiveness evaluations and structured decision-making
• developing cost-effective indicators for monitoring changes in ecosystem condition
• understanding the consequences for management decisions when managers do not use scientific information
• the use of expert opinion and local ecological knowledge
• the development of management thresholds to guide decisions about when to intervene in managed ecosystems
• identifying new and emerging threats to biodiversity

Research Group

Research Fellow

• Dr Roshan Sharma

Research Assistant

• Cassandra van der Velden

PhD Students

• Xenia Muenger
• Rae Read
• Ben Chipperfield
• Lobke Jurrius