Providing technical support as a Principal Scientist to the Climate Adaptation team and the Science & Sustainability team.

Dr Sam Lloyd, Principal Scientist - Fire Ecology

Dr Samantha Lloyd is back from a sabbatical, and Sam will provide technical support as a Principal Scientist to the Climate Adaptation team and the Science & Sustainability team. This includes leading initiatives such as our Natural Hazards Research Australia partnership and the Fire Science Reference Group.

Dr Lloyd has 20 years of experience in research and environmental management with a focus on ecology, entomology, bushfires, disaster recovery, and natural resource management. She Joined Healthy Land & Water in 2010.

She is also a keen science communicator and has worked on many projects from the perspective of community engagement, fire literacy and education, and stakeholder representation.

In her free time, Sam is a science and nature reviewer for Children’s Books Daily and has recently published her first children’s science book with CSIRO Publishing called Alight: A Story of Fire and Nature.