Meet our researchers
Project Halo is a five-year partnership between UNSW Sydney and the University of the South Pacific, supported by philanthropic funding from
UNSW Sydney
Dr Andrew Dansie (Project Halo co-lead)
Dansie is the Academic Lead, Humanitarian Engineering at UNSW Sydney and a Senior Lecturer in the UNSW Water Research Centre. A scientist by training, Dansie has over 19 years of international development experience within transboundary water and coastal resources across six continents. Dansie is recognised by the UN as an expert in large-scale ecosystem management, with particular expertise in the interconnectivity between land and ocean and ecosystem-human interdependence.
Professor William Glamore (Project Halo co-lead)
Will is a Professor of Nature-based Solutions within the Water Research Laboratory at UNSW Sydney. A multi-award-winning engineer, Will has led tidal restoration research in Australia since 1999, restoring thousands of hectares across many coastal sites and pioneering nature-based approaches to mangrove restoration. Will is a Winston Churchill Fellow (2005), a Peter Cullen Fellow (2013) and helped to co-lead development of the Tidal Restoration of Blue Carbon Ecosystems method that underpins Project Halo.
- Dana Tothova