Chris Gordon is a landscape ecologist and conservation biologist interested in understanding how interactions and disturbances impact ecosystem dynamics and processes, with a key focus on developing tools for environmental and ecosystem management. His research on wildfire ecology and risk management has focused on understanding how historical wildfire regimes and fire severity impacts fire fuel loads, carbon sequestration, floristic diversity and fauna-flora interactions. He also focuses on understanding how ecosystem disturbance through species extinction (especially keystone apex predators and ecosystem engineers) impacts species-species interactions, biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. As a Research Fellow within the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, he uses remote sensing products and statistical techniques to determine how drought impacts wildfire occurrence and activity in wet forest types (e.g. rainforests) of eastern Australia.