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Ryan Newis

Ryan Newis

Software Developer (R Specialist)

ryan.newis@qcif.edu.au

Skills

Research and experimental design, advanced data analysis: R Statistics/SPSS, fieldwork (team leading), liaising with relevant project stakeholders (farm management and owners, industry groups), report writing (government and industry), academic manuscript writing, verbal presentations of research outputs

Ryan comes to QCIF with a diverse range of skills and experience within the environmental sciences. This experience ranges from environmental and ecological monitoring (water, soil, plants, animals) to chemical, landscape and molecular ecology. At Griffith University, Ryan played a key role in pollination ecology research, focused on using field and molecular techniques to investigate the impacts of bee and insect pollination on horticultural crop yield, quality, nutrition and paternity.  His own studies focused on exploring the impacts of stingless beehive propagation, and tree resin (e.g. Eucalyptus) foraging behaviour using molecular techniques such as DNA metabarcoding.


In his role at QCIF, Ryan will be focused primarily on developing an ‘Integrated Ecological Data Service’ for State of Environment Reporting in Queensland and working on the EcoCommons platform.


Research interests

  • Bee ecology

  • Insect pollination ecology

  • Plant biology

  • Landscape ecology

  • Ecological networks


Qualifications

  • PhD in Zoology/Insect Ecology (Griffith University 2024)

  • Bachelor of Environmental Science (Honours) in Chemical Ecology (University of the Sunshine Coast)

  • Bachelor of Environmental Science (University of the Sunshine Coast) 

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