Shaun Levick

Dr Shaun Levick is a landscape ecologist who integrates Earth Observation/Remote Sensing and GIS Simulation Modelling (ABM/Predictive/Economic modelling) with field experiments to better understand the structure and dynamics of savanna ecosystems.

Shaun obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) before moving on to a postdoctoral position with the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) at Stanford University, CA (USA). For the last five years he has led a small research group at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena (Germany), where he has expanded his research on savanna vegetation structure and dynamics to savannas regions across the globe. He recently joined the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL), at Charles Darwin University, as an Associate Professor of Earth Observation/Remote Sensing. He holds a joint appointment at CSIRO Land and Water, Darwin.

Shaun’s research merges cutting-edge advances in satellite, airborne, and terrestrial Earth Observation/Remote Sensing with emerging tools in computer vision and machine learning to address environmental challenges. Key focus areas include high precision carbon accounting, fire ecology and management, habitat mapping, 3D visualisation and qualification of 3D dynamics, and the Simulation Modelling (ABM/Predictive/Economic modelling) of future trajectories of ecosystem change.