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Biography
Steven L. Chown is Professor of Biological Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and Director of Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative.
His research mainly concerns biodiversity variation through space and time, and the conservation implications of environmental change, including the means to mitigate it. He co-developed the field of macrophysiology – the investigation of large-scale patterns in and processes underlying physiological variation and their ecological implications. He has worked in Australia, Africa, the Pacific, the UK, and in the broader Antarctic region, where he has over 30 years of field experience.
Owing to his interest in the science-policy interface, for many years he represented the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), of which he was also President (2016-2021), at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, providing scientific advice on a broad range of environmental and science policy matters.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For his science and policy work in the Antarctic, he has received the South African Antarctic Gold Medal, the inaugural Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica, the SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research, and the French Republic’s Medal of the 30th Anniversary of the Madrid Protocol.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Antarctica
- Biogeography
- Biological invasions
- Climate change
- Ecology
- Entomology
- Insect physiology
- Macrophysiology
- Science-policy
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SAEF: Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future – An Evidence-Based, Informatics Approach
Chown, S., Robinson, S., Wilson, K. A., Mackintosh, A., McGeoch, M., Bode, M., Helmstedt, K., McGregor, H. V., Arblaster, J., Duffy, G., Greening, C., Henley, B., Siems, S., Cressie, N., Kaye, S., Perez, P., Barthelemy, J., Mangion, A. Z., Corke, P., Dunbabin, M., Gonzalez, L., Mengersen, K. L., Strugnell, J. M., Cassey, P., Johnston, E., Clark, G., Terauds, A., Stark, J. S., Saunders, K., Hua, Q., Meredith, K., Stevens, M. I., Wilson, N., Smith, J., McLennan, S., Lim, E., DeConto, R., Brooks, C., Cowan, D., Charman, D., Maclean, I., Bollar, B., Barbour, M., Fraser, C., Flexas, J., Zuniga, G., Olalla-Tarraga, M., Balco, G., Goehring, B., Norton, K. P., Njastad, B., Vaughan, D. G., Kessick, M., Lynnes, A., Adams, M., McCormack, F., Wheeler, M. C., Weller, J. & Selwyn Jones, R.
19/05/20 → 18/05/27
Project: Research
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Assessing exposure pathways for pathogens causing gastrointestinal infection and antimicrobial resistance acquisition among children living in informal coastal settlements
Leder, K., Clasen, T., Luby, S., McCarthy, D., Chown, S., Barker, F., Henry, R. & Kwong, L.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia)
1/01/20 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Terrestrial microbial biodiversity in the Vestfold Hills: structure, drivers, and protection
Greening, C., Chown, S., McGeoch, M. & Ferrari, B.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Assessing risks to Antarctic terrestrial and nearshore ecosystem
Keith, D. A., Chown, S., Murray, N., Shaw, J. D., Stark, J. S. & Terauds, A.
10/10/19 → 9/10/22
Project: Research
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Health and economic benefits of environmentally sensitive watercycle management in informal urban settlements
Brown, R., Chown, S., Clasen, T., Deletic, A., El Sioufi, M., Forbes, A., Johnston, D., Leder, K., Luby, S., McCarthy, D., Ramirez, D., Santoso, A., Weber, E., Wong, T. & Greening, C.
11/07/17 → 11/07/22
Project: Research
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An unusually diverse genus of Collembola in the Cape Floristic Region characterised by substantial desiccation tolerance
Liu, W. P. A., Phillips, L. M., Terblanche, J. S., Janion-Scheepers, C. & Chown, S. L., 1 Apr 2021, In: Oecologia. 195, 4, p. 873-885 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
A planetary health model for reducing exposure to faecal contamination in urban informal settlements: Baseline findings from Makassar, Indonesia
French, M. A., Fiona Barker, S., Taruc, R. R., Ansariadi, A., Duffy, G. A., Saifuddaolah, M., Zulkifli Agussalim, A., Awaluddin, F., Zainal, Z., Wardani, J., Faber, P. A., Fleming, G., Ramsay, E. E., Henry, R., Lin, A., O'Toole, J., Openshaw, J., Sweeney, R., Sinharoy, S. S., Kolotelo, P. & 21 others, , Oct 2021, In: Environment International. 155, 12 p., 106679.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
Chemosynthetic and photosynthetic bacteria contribute differentially to primary production across a steep desert aridity gradient
Bay, S. K., Waite, D. W., Dong, X., Gillor, O., Chown, S. L., Hugenholtz, P. & Greening, C., Nov 2021, In: The ISME Journal. 15, 11, p. 3339-3356 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access9 Citations (Scopus) -
Diatoms define a novel freshwater biogeography of the Antarctic
ANTDIAT consortium, Apr 2021, In: Ecography. 44, 4, p. 548-560 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access14 Citations (Scopus) -
Fifty million years of beetle evolution along the Antarctic Polar Front
Baird, H. P., Shin, S., Oberprieler, R. G., Hullé, M., Vernon, P., Moon, K. L., Adams, R. H., McKenna, D. D. & Chown, S. L., 15 Jun 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 24, 10 p., e2017384118.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus)
Press / Media
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Antarctic bacteria live on air and make their own water using hydrogen as fuel
Bob Leung, Steven Chown & Chris Greening
15/11/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research