Dr Scott Nichol

Scott Nichol is Theme Leader for the National Ecosystems Knowledge Theme and Section Leader at Geoscience Australia for Marine Biodiversity and Antarctic Geoscience. In these roles, he provides science leadership and administers research within the Shelf and Canyon Ecosystems project of Theme 3 and has an active role in the marine survey components of Theme 1 - National Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting and Theme 4 - Regional Biodiversity Discovery.

Scott is a coastal geomorphologist and sedimentologist with 25 years experience in marine geoscience research. Research themes include stratigraphic reconstruction of modern coastal and shallow marine depositional systems, interaction of physical and biological processes, and the impacts of extreme events and human activity on sedimentation processes. He has maintained a strong emphasis on field-based empirical and interdisciplinary research, with published studies from projects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Ireland, Maldives and Antarctica.