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Deanne Hickey

Associate Lecturer

Madsen Building (F09), Room 418
Phone: +61 2 9351 8904
Fax: +61 2 9351 3644
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Research

Deanne is a physical geographer, specialising in GIS. Her research utilises spatial methods to examine changes in the landscape, focusing on vegetative habitats.

Deanne is involved in a four year project investigating processes of farm consolidation and fragmentation within Australia’s rural regions. This study, in its pilot year established a spatial approach to identify changes in rural farm holdings. Stage two of the project sees the expansion of this analysis to all NSW rural LGAs. Deanne’s PhD research investigates the relationship between farm consolidation and fragmentation and the encroachment of invasive weeds into productive agricultural lands.

Deanne’s prior research has examined coastal wetland systems, focussing on the relationship between wetland hydrology and fine scale vegetation distribution. In conducting this research, Deanne has developed and refined spatial modelling techniques to assess fine scale hydrological and topographic influences on wetland structure.

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Publications

  • Hickey, D. & Bruce, E. (In Press). Examining Tidal Inundation and Salt Marsh Vegetation Distribution Patterns using Spatial Analysis (Botany Bay, Australia). Journal of Coastal Research.
  • Hickey, D. & Bruce, E. (2007). Spatial modelling of coastal saltmarsh species distribution patterns and elevation dependent tidal inundation within Botany Bay, Australia. In Woodroffe, C.D., Bruce, E.M., Puotinen, M. & Furness, R.A. (Eds). GIS for the Coastal Zone: A Selection of Papers from CoastGIS 2006 (Wollongong Papers on Maritime Policy No. 16), University of Wollongong.
  • Zeng, T Q., Cowell, P J. & Hickey, D. (2007) Predicting climate change impacts on saltmarsh and mangrove distribution: GIS fuzzy set methods. In Woodroffe, C.D., Bruce, E.M., Puotinen, M. & Furness, R.A. (Eds). GIS for the Coastal Zone: A Selection of Papers from CoastGIS 2006 (Wollongong Papers on Maritime Policy No. 16), University of Wollongong.
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