Senior Research Officer
Phone: +61 2 6125 4669
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: janet.stein@anu.edu.au

Janet has been undertaking and supporting research in the school since 1988. Her research focuses on methods of spatial analysis to support biodiversity conservation and improved natural resource planning and management. Major projects include the identification of Australia's remaining wild rivers and the development of the national 9-second DEM and nested catchment framework. Janet's PhD thesis, completed in 2006, developed and applied new methods of drainage analysis applicable to the distributary and uncoordinated drainage systems typical of much of Australia. It produced a continental landscape framework, including a new stream and catchment reference system and river environment classification that was used to assess the comprehensiveness and adequacy of the National Reserve System for the conservation of rivers and streams. The work is also now assisting river planning and management programs in several states and the Murray Darling Basin. More recently she was involved in the development of an ecohydrological regionalization of Australia.

Selected Publications

Hutchinson, M. F., McIntyre, S., Hobbs, R. J., Stein, J. L., Garnett, S. and Kinloch, J. (2005) An agro-climatic classification incorporating bioregional boundaries in Australia. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14, 197-212.

Kingsford, R. T., Dunn, H., Love, D., Nevill, J., Stein, J. L. and Tait, J. T. (2005) Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value. Department of Environment and Heritage Australia, Canberra http://www.environment.gov.au/water/publications/environmental/protecting-rivers.html

Klein, C., Wilson, K., Watts, M., Stein, J., Berry, S., Carwardine, J., Smith, M. S., Mackey, B. and Possingham, H. (in press) Incorporating ecological and evolutionary processes into large-scale conservation planning. Ecological Applications.

Stein, J. L., Stein, J. A. and Nix, H. A. (2001a) Wild Rivers in Australia. International Journal of Wilderness, 7, 20-24.

Stein, J. L., Stein, J. A. and Nix, H. A. (2002) Spatial analysis of anthropogenic river disturbance at regional and continental scales: identifying the wild rivers of Australia. Landscape and Urban Planning, 60, 1-25

Stein, J. L. (2005) A national landscape framework for river and stream conservation: developing a new stream and catchment reference system. In Fourth Australian Stream Management Conference: linking rivers to landscapes. Launceston, Tasmania. Rutherford, I. D., Wiszniewski, I., Askey-Doran, M. and Glazik, R. (eds.) Tasmania Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment, 548-552

Walsh, C., Stewardson, M., Stein, J. and Wealands, S. (2007) Sustainable Rivers Audit Filters Project Stage 2. Report to Murray Darling Basin Commission. University of Melbourne.