Prof. Michael Douglas is an aquatic ecologist from Charles Darwin University who has been researching tropical rivers and wetlands in northern Australia for more than 20 years. His research focusses on understanding the effects of catchment management practices including fire, weed, forestry and water management on tropical rivers, floodplains and riparian zones and has worked on aquatic invertebrate, fish, and plant communities and on the ecosystem processes that connect them, particularly food webs. For the past 6 years he has been leading collaborative research programs aimed at supporting land, water and biodiversity management across northern Australia. He is the Director of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge Research Hub (TRaCK) and the National Environmental Research Program¹s Northern Australia Hub.