Kathryn Reardon-Smith

Kathryn Reardon-Smith is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in the School of Agriculture and Environmental Science. She works with industry and government agencies (MLA/MDC; QDAF) to develop climate-risk decision-making tools for agricultural systems. Her research spans sustainable landscape management, soil/water resource analysis, and systems modeling for climate adaptation in cropping and livestock systems.

Research Interests:

• Agro-ecosystems
• Floodplain woodland ecosystems
• Natural resource policy
• Climate risk management

Professional Memberships:

• Ecological Society of Australia
• Australian Floodplain Association
• Australian Freshwater Science Society
• Wildlife Queensland

Research Affiliations:

• Centre for Applied Climate Sciences
• Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
• Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment

Publication Trends: Her recent work focuses on climate-adaptive agricultural models (2023-2025), water resource allocation frameworks (2024-2025), soil carbon/nitrogen dynamics in African smallholder systems (2024), and predictive ecological modeling using spatial analysis tools (2023). Key methodologies include systems dynamics, Bayesian modeling, and stakeholder-driven model co-design.