Associate ProfessorTina Bell

Current and recent research projects

Low emissions intensity farming systems (LEIFS) – National data analytics and insight

Co-investigator, Grains Research and Development Corporation, 2025-2050

Scalability of agroecosystem vegetation assessments using hyperspectral remote sensing

Co-investigator, Meat and Livestock Australia, 2025-2026

Food quality of Australian Indigenous grains: impacts of plant environment

Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2025-2027

Refining support and assessment for cultural competency via cultural immersions

Co-investigator, The University of Sydney, Education Focused Academics’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, 2025-2026

“Stories of One Basin”: First Nations knowledge and Indigenous-led research to address climate change

Chief Investigator, One Basin Cooperative Research Centre, 2024-2027

Fire over the fence - Litter flammability in wildland-urban-interfaces in California and New South Wales

Chief investigator, USyd-UC Davis Ignition Grant, 2024-2025

Immersion: the key to transformational learning and development of cultural responsibility of students and staff in Science

Co-investigator, Australian Council of Deans of Science Teaching and Learning Grant, 2024

Let it bee – improving our understanding of floral resources for insect pollinators in changed environments

Chief Investigator, School of Life and Environmental Sciences Seed Grant, 2021-2023

Fires, flowers and bees: how prescribed burns affect honeybees and pollination industries

Co-investigator, AgriFutures, 2022-2024

Rebuilding from the ground up: impact of bushfires on soil, vegetation, and the wellbeing of stock

Co-investigator, Meat and Livestock Australia, 2020-2022

Paddock-to-plate for native grains – a whole system research approach to commercialisation

Co-investigator, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, 2019-2020

Food Safety in Fresh Produce

Deputy Director, ARC Industrial Transformational Training Centre, 2017-2020

Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for fuel reduction, carbon, water and vegetation outcomes

Project Leader, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2014-2020

Current and recent PhD and Master supervision

Anita Bhusal (PhD) Ecological and physiological functioning of native grass production systems

Anne Vervoort (PhD) Small, lonely and dying to live: is it worth looking after remnant fragments of native vegetation in Australia?

Christy Hung (PhD, recently submitted) Determining changes in Eucalyptus litter during decomposition

Eleanor Riddy-Baker (PhD, recently commenced) Ecophysical parameters linked to grain yield and quality of Australian native grasses

Ellen Feltscheer (Master of Environmental Science, 2024-2025) Post-fire growth of woody plants: exploring nutrient availability in a regenerating landscape in southeastern Australia

India Phillips (Master of Environmental Science, 2025-2026) Fire and decay: the impact of prescribed burning on coarse woody debris in dry sclerophyll forests of southeastern Australia

Isabelle Coster (Master of Environmental Science, 2022-2023) Impacts of bushfires on native floral resources for insect pollinators

Sarah Faulina (PhD) Investigation on microbiome in mushroom cultivation to achieve sustainable food production: a metagenomic approach on microbial interactions in cultivation formula