Staff profile

Mr Neville Rosengren is a geomorphologist with 35 years experience in research, teaching and consultancy in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, China, UK and USA. He has been engaged as a consultant by State and Commonwealth Government agencies, by major private sector environmental consulting firms and for several years was senior environmental consultant to the United Nations University programme on coastal resources management in Indonesia.

His publications in geomorphology cover aspects of coastal, volcanic and mountain environments. He has long had an active interest in the conservation of geological sites and has published major inventories of sites on a regional (e.g. catchment of the Gippsland Lakes), and thematic (e.g. Box-Ironbark Special Investigation, Newer Volcanic eruption points) scale.

Neville is the inaugural Director of the La Trobe University Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology.

Qualifications

• BCom, MA(Hons) Melb, DipAppGeol RMIT, TSTC

Teaching areas

• Neville teaches Geology and Environmental Science subjects at the Bendigo, Bundoora and Mildura campuses.

Professional involvement

• Neville has been engaged as a consultant by State and Commonwealth Government agencies, by major private sector environmental consulting firms and for several years was senior environmental consultant to the United Nations University programme on coastal resources management in Indonesia. He has wide experience in preparing and assessing environmental impact statements for major development projects.