Dr. Stacey Trevathan-Tackett
Senior Lecturer
Details
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College: School of Science
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Department: School of Science
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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stacey.trevathan-tackett@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Stacey Trevathan Tackett is a marine scientist who specialises in wetland soil carbon and function. Her multidisciplinary research integrates fundamental and applied research approaches to ensure that wetland preservation and restoration outcomes are based on robust and novel research discovery.
Stacey primarily works in coastal wetlands, but also has an interest in applying her research to freshwater wetlands. With her background in seagrass wasting disease and blue carbon biogeochemistry, she is passionate about answering questions and addressing climate and environmental issues through understanding the connections among soil, plants, microbes and chemistry.
Research fields
- 410604 Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)
- 310703 Microbial ecology
- 310801 Phycology (incl. marine grasses)
- 410405 Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
- 41 Environmental sciences
- 310305 Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
UN sustainable development goals
- 13 Climate Action
- 14 Life Below Water
Academic positions
- Senior Research Fellow
- Deakin University
- , Australia
- 3 Feb 2024 – 21 Jun 2024
- ARC DECRA Fellow
- Deakin University
- , Australia
- 3 Feb 2021 – 2 Feb 2024
- Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Deakin University
- , Australia
- 1 Jan 2019 – 2 Feb 2021
- Research Fellow
- Deakin University
- , Australia
- 19 Oct 2015 – 1 Jan 2019
Research interests
Dr Trevathan-Tackett’s research progresses and develops new theory in wetland carbon cycling, restoration, and microbiome research. Specifically, her carbon sequestration research progresses our knowledge of how microbe-carbon interactions regulate carbon preservation and storage in order to improve climate mitigation capacity of wetlands, while her restoration research progresses our knowledge of how different restoration actions improve soil, plant and microbiome function, and thereby also improve ecosystem recovery. She also is an expert in seagrass wasting disease and the opportunistic pathogen, Labyrinthula. Outcomes of Dr Trevathan-Tackett’s research contributes to the on-ground responses to wetland valuation and management, while also aiming to enable local communities to contribute and value-add to wetland ecosystems research through outreach and hands-on citizen science workshops.
