Dr Samantha Lloyd, Principal Scientist

Sharing her passion for fire ecology and sustainable land management with Queensland.

Dr Samantha Lloyd, Principal Scientist - Climate AdaptationDr Sam Lloyd is an award-winning Principal Scientist with Healthy Land and Water and an author. Sam was the Program Lead for the Qld Fire and Biodiversity Consortium for 12 years and has over two-decades experience in stakeholder engagement, research, education and project/program management in ecology, bushfire, entomology and natural resource management.

Sam graduated from the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of Science (Biology), 1st Class Honours in 1999 and a PhD (pollination ecology) in 2006. Following completion of her PhD, held a number of roles, including entomologist for the New Zealand Fire Ant Control Program, Program Manager for the Moreton Bay Oil Spill Environmental Restoration Program and Biodiversity Manager for SEQ Catchments.

Sam has a keen interest in engaging children in science and nature and recently published her first children's book, Alight: A Story of Fire and Nature (CSIRO Publishing, 2023). Sam is also Chair of the Practitioner Engagement Working Group for the Ecological Society of Australia. Sam lives in Brisbane with her husband, two children and some chooks on the lands of the Yuggera and Turrbal people.

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	Dr Samantha Lloyd

Sam's working days:

• Monday - Thursday