Associate Professor Qifeng Ye
Biography
Associate Professor Qifeng Ye is a Science Leader and fish ecologist with extensive research experience accumulated through 25 years of environmental and fishery related work. This has been done in freshwater, estuarine and marine systems in several countries. Qifeng has led and played a substantial role in numerous multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational collaborative projects focussed on the Murray-Darling Basin and has secured a significant amount of funding from a range of sources including State and Federal governments to conduct applied science research to inform natural resource and environmental management and ecological restoration.
Qifeng has an excellent knowledge of the habitat and environmental water requirements of native fish and the potential ecological impacts of river regulation in the River Murray and Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth region. She has 100publications and has supervised numerous PhD and honours students.
Qifeng has been on a number of science and management committees and groups at State and national levels, providing expert advice on fish and fisheries and environmental water management.
Research interests
- Fish ecology: environmental flow and habitat requirements
- Population dynamics and fisheries stock assessment
- Food webs and trophic dynamics
- Ecosystem restoration in freshwater and estuarine systems
- Condition and intervention monitoring
Qualifications
- PhD, 1996, Mississippi State University, USA
- MSc, 1991, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
- BSc, 1989, China Ocean University, China
Research affiliations
- Affiliate Associate Professor, Flinders University
- Affiliate Associate Professor, The University of Adelaide
Professional affiliations
- Member, National Carp Biocontrol Science Advisory Group
- Murray-Darling Basin Native Fish Recovery Strategy – Technical Advisory Group
- Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth Science Advisory Group
- River Murray Channel and Floodplain Science Advisory Group
