Our Team

Team leader

Dr Carla Eisemberg

Carla gained her Master’s degree from the National Institute for Amazon Research in Brazil and her PhD from the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra. She has been conducting freshwater turtle research for 15 years in the Amazon, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. She is a Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University and the Red List Coordinator for the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. She has a very long Brazilian name (Carla Camilo Eisemberg de Alvarenga), which sometimes confuses people.

Master students

Lou Martini

Research: Linking life history to the conservation management of Amazon River turtles. Comparing the effectiveness of conventional and community-based management approaches to the conservation of Amazon river turtles at the Rio Trombetas Biological Reserve, Brazil.

Kahleana Stannard

Research: Prioritizing hydrographic regions for Brazilian freshwater turtle conservation to improve threat mitigation

Isabel Ely

Research: Threat assessment of the northern long-neck turtle (Chelodina oblonga) population in the Finniss River catchment, Northern Territory, Australia.

Helen Truscott

Research: Effect of socio-economic change and exposure to conservation programs on conservation attitudes and harvest behaviours: A Case study using the endangered pig-nosed turtle (Carettochelys insculpta) in the Kikori region, Papua New Guinea.

Tito Khatiwada

Research: Waste audits in remote Papua New Guinea (Kikodri, Golf Province) - Challenges and differences from urban areas. A comparison with the Parap Market, Darwin, Australia.