Food, Water and Biodiversity Nexus - Trade-offs & Interventions
Tracks
Food, Water and Biodiversity Nexus
| Monday, October 13, 2025 |
| 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM |
| Conway 3 |
Speaker
Dr Elizabeth Keller
Senior Scientist
GNS Science
Synergies and trade-offs between carbon sequestration, water resource management and economic returns in a changing climate
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Liz Keller is a carbon cycle and earth system modeller at GNS Science and Victoria University of Wellington. With a background in physics, her current research interests include carbon cycle dynamics and the interactions and feedbacks with the hydrological cycle.
Dr Gen Sakurai
Principal Research Fellow
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Towards More Adaptive Crop Selection: Analysis of Yield Data for 67 Crops in Japan
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Dr. Gen Sakurai is a principal research fellow at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. The works focus on the statistical analysis of the relationship between climate and crop productivity and the development of mathematical models for agricultural fields such as plant physiology and crop productivity.
Ms Elnaz Javadi
PhD Candidate
Monash University
Creating long-term adaptation in coastal peri-urban regions through small-scale, design-based interventions
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Elnaz Javadi, PhD candidate at Monash Art, Design and Architecture has worked in landscape architecture and architecture with the expertise in waterscape design. Her research interests focus on urban landscapes, flood management, and coastal adaptation strategies through transdisciplinary design approaches.
