Lecturer - Coordinator of Learning and Teaching
"B.Sc. (Melb.) Hons (Tas.) PhD (Macquarie)"
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Geography-Geology Building |
| Room Reference | Room 440 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2049 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2989 |
| Emma.Pharo@utas.edu.au |
KGA516 Ecosystem Conservation (25% distance and on campus)
KGA381 Environmental Impact Assessment (12.5%)
KGA319 Making Sense of Climate Change (12.5%)
KGA300 Environmental Research Project (12.5% individual supervision of student projects)
1988 Bachelor of Science in Geography, First class, University of Melbourne
1990 Bachelor of Science, First Class Honours Degree in Geography, University of Tasmania. Plant dynamics on alpine sand dunes, Central Plateau, Tasmania
1997 Doctor of Philosophy, School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. Bryophyte and lichen diversity: patterns and conservation in production forests
2007 Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching, University of Tasmania
I have national standing for scholarship around interdisciplinary learning and environmental education. I have international standing as a bryophyte ecologist, one of only a handful, and have collaborated on several landscape ecology projects with other ecologists in order to put together a more complete picture of biodiversity response to disturbance.
Leadership Networks for Climate Change emerged out of a passion for teaching and a desire to better equip students to understand the complexities of climate change. The project recognised the challenges faced by academics desiring to teach this broad subject in ways which escape the restrictions of siloed disciplines. The project attempted to help create a form of leadership and teaching structure that can move through these structural challenges.
Education for Sustainability is a community of practice of about a dozen active members and a wider group of over sixty members of academic and professional staff drawn from most Faculties across all UTAS campuses. The aim of the community is to better connect sustainability initiatives across the University and to address overarching policies and operation. I lead the Active Transport sub-group along with Corey Peterson, Sustainability Manager, UTAS. Together, the Active Transport group is presenting at meetings, conferences, writing paper, supervising students and lobbying for more sustainable transport use for both passenger and non-passenger transport to UTAS.
I have supervised to successful completion 6 PhD, 4 Masters coursework theses, 7 third year/Honours research projects. Please see my WARP page for details.
Sam Cuff – Adapting to Peak Oil: A feasibility study of a student adaptation program at UTAS
Rachel Nichols – Transport patterns of UTAS staff and students
Jemima Crewes – Sustainable purchasing at UTAS: An investigation of current purchasing patterns and implications
Pharo, EJ and Bridle, K, ‘Does Interdisciplinarity Exist Behind the Facade of Traditional Disciplines? A Study of Natural Resource Management Teaching’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 36 (1) pp. 65-80. ISSN 0309-8265 (2012)
Romanski, J* and Pharo, EJ and Kirkpatrick, JB, ‘Epiphytic bryophytes and habitat variation in montane rainforest, Peru’, Bryologist, 114 (4) pp. 720-731. ISSN 0007-2745 (2011)
McMullan-Fisher, SJM and Kirkpatrick, JB and May, TW and Pharo, EJ, ‘Surrogates for Macrofungi and Mosses in Reservation Planning’, Conservation Biology, 24 (3) pp. 730-736. ISSN 0888-8892 (2010)
Pharo, EJ and Lindenmayer, D*, ‘Biological legacies soften pine plantation effects for bryophytes’, Biodiversity and Conservation, 18 (7) pp. 1751-1764. ISSN 0960-3115 (2009)
Pharo, EJ and Zartman, CE, ‘Bryophytes in a changing landscape: The hierarchical effects of habitat fragmentation on ecological and evolutionary processes’, Biological Conservation, 135 (3) pp. 315-325. ISSN 0006-3207 (2007)