Rate My Professor Sharyn Hickey

Dr. Sharyn Hickey is a Senior Lecturer in the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment within the Faculty of Science, and she is affiliated with the UWA Oceans Institute and the Centre for Water and Spatial Science. She completed her PhD at the University of Western Australia in 2018, with a thesis entitled 'A spatio-temporal approach to understand environmental drivers of intertidal seagrass dynamics,' and holds a BSc in Marine Science. Throughout her career, Hickey has applied spatial ecology and geospatial sciences to marine and coastal environments, using remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate changes in habitats such as mangroves, seagrass meadows, coral reefs, and intertidal ecosystems. Her work emphasizes Western Australia's shallow coastal systems, developing and testing emerging remote sensing technologies and spatial analytics to monitor habitat dynamics, detect environmental changes, assess blue carbon stocks, and evaluate impacts from climate drivers like ENSO events, heatwaves, and sea level fluctuations. She has led multidisciplinary research projects, securing over $4 million in funding, and her research extends to population health applications of spatial modeling.