Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa

Dr Costa is a marine scientist that focus on marine quantitative ecology and coastal conservation, making significant contributions to the research fields of spatial modelling, decision science and coastal wetlands. Her research aims to understand how blue carbon varies at different spatial scales, and how different management actions can change the ecosystem services provided by coastal wetlands. She leads national and international projects that usually includes:

• Quantify and model blue carbon and other ecosystem services within existing coastal wetlands.
• Identify areas amenable to coastal restoration at different spatial scales.
• Determine the carbon and other benefits of restoring coastal wetlands through different management actions.
• Model the distribution of blue carbon and other benefits generated by natural and restored coastal wetlands.
• Idenfity barriers and drivers to foster the conservation and restoration of coastal wetlands.

As a senior research fellow at RMIT, most of her projects merge multi-stakeholder groups, including academia, government, industry and community.