Rate My Professor Gerald Page

Dr. Gerald Page is a Lecturer in Plant Biology in the School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences at Murdoch University. He earned his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Western Australia in 2014, with a thesis titled 'Morphological and ecophysiological diversity of Mulga (Acacia aneura complex) in the Hamersley Ranges' under the supervision of Dr. Pauline F. Grierson. He also holds a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science from the same university, awarded in 2004. Page's research focuses on plant physiological ecology and remote sensing, exploring how plants survive environmental stresses such as drought and heat. His work integrates field measurements, stable isotopes, and thermal imaging to study leaf transpiration, canopy temperature dynamics, water-use efficiency, and vegetation responses to climate variability. With over 600 citations on Google Scholar, his contributions have advanced understanding of ecosystem processes in forests and arid woodlands.

Page's career includes postdoctoral positions at Oregon State University (2017–2020), Washington State University Vancouver (2015–2017), and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (2019–2020). He served as a Research Scientist with the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Government of Western Australia (2020–2023), and a Visiting Scientist at CSIRO Land and Water during the same period. Earlier roles encompass Senior Research Officer and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, Ecologist at Rio Tinto, and Research Assistant at the West Australian Biogeochemistry Centre. Key publications include 'No evidence of canopy-scale leaf thermoregulation to cool leaves below air temperature across a range of forest ecosystems' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022), 'Imaging canopy temperature: shedding (thermal) light on ecosystem processes' (New Phytologist, 2021), 'Causes of Widespread Foliar Damage from the June 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome: More Heat than Drought' (Tree Physiology, 2023), 'Using multi-platform LiDAR to guide the conservation of the world’s largest temperate woodland' (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023), and 'Spatiotemporal dynamics of leaf transpiration quantified with time-series thermal imaging' (Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2018). He received the Best Student Presentation award at the 10th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference in 2009.