Research interests
Environmental Physics
Water Cycle
Climate Change Science
Ecohydrology (including plant-water relations)
Carbon-water-nutrient cycling
Remote Sensing
Ecological Dynamics

Michael’s principle research interests are in environmental physics, global climate change science, ecohydrology (including plant-water relations), remote sensing and ecological dynamics. He has made a major international contribution to understanding the water-energy-carbon linkage. An advocate of national and international scientific collaboration, he co-instigated and co-organized the first international scientific meeting to address the observed decline in evaporative demand and the implications for the terrestrial water balance, hosted in 2004 by the Australian Academy of Science. He has also acted as an advisor to the National Science Foundation’s program on Ecohydrology. He led the Theoretical Developments in Carbon Cycle Science program of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting from 2001-2006.