Dan Harrison

In 2019 Daniel Joined Southern Cross University as a Senior Lecturer and was appointed Sub-Program lead of the Cooling and Shading sub program within the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.

Daniel's research seeks to evaluate how engineering intervention in marine systems can be used to improve ecological, environmental, or societal outcomes. His work spans topics from estuarine and ocean biogeochemistry, fisheries management and habitat modelling, hydrodynamic and biogeochemical modelling, through to ecoengineering and geoengineering.

In his research he strives to undertake empirical field measurements and experimentation in order to understand natural system functioning, then extend this knowledge through computational modelling. By co-designing data collection around modelling needs, and the modelling approaches around insights from linked empirical study a robust platform is created on which to evaluate multiple scenarios and seek answers to the pressing 'what if' questions around our human interactions with the natural world.