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Mrs Natasha Dunham

Senior School Officer (School Research Centre Support)

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2412
Mobile: 0439 940 787
Email: n.dunham@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO19.381  

Tash is the Senior School Officer responsible for supporting the School of Science Research Centres. This includes tasks relating to finance, events, media and marketing, communication and direct support to the Heads of the Strategic Research Centres.

Background

Tash completed her Masters by Research at ECU in 2014 and has worked at ECU since 2010 on various research projects many relating to the investigation of climate change and human impacts on coastal ecosystems. She has an extensive knowledge of marine based research, and she has been involved in many projects in collaboration with WAMSI, Department of Transport, Geocatch and Department of Biodiversity, Conversation and Attractions and the Water Corporation.

More recently Tash has moved into an Operations role supporting the School of Science staff and students with research related duties.

The Strategic centres she supports are:

  • Centre for Marine Ecosystem Research (CMER)
  • Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML)
  • Conservation and Biodiversity Research Centre (CBRC)
  • Centre for Securing Digital Futures (CSDF)

Professional Memberships

  • 2010 – Golden Key International Honour Society

Research Areas and Interests

  • Human impacts in coastal ecosystems, inclusive of seagrasses and mangrove.
  • Climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems.
  • Plastic pollution within the marine environment.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Strydom, S., McCallum, R., Lafratta, A., Webster, C., O'Dea, C., Said, N., Dunham, T., Inostroza, K., Salinas Zapata, C., Billinghurst, S., Phelps, C., Campbell, C., Gorham, C., Bernasconi, R., Frouws, A., Werner, A., Vitelli, F., Puigcorbe Lacueva, V., D'cruz, A., McMahon, K., Robinson, J., Huggett, M., McNamara, S., Hyndes, G., Serrano Gras, O. (2023). Global dataset on seagrass meadow structure, biomass and production. Earth System Science Data, 15(1), 511-519. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-511-2023.
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