Dr. Alice Twomey

Beethoven Str. 51A, 38106 Braunschweig, Deutschland, 4. OG, Raum 405b

Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiatin

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Seit Dezember 2025 bin ich Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stipendiatin an der Technischen Universität Braunschweig und forsche dort zur Anwendung von verankertem Totholz als naturbasierte Lösung für den Küstenschutz sowie die Wiederherstellung von Salzwiesen. Zuvor war ich Inhaberin eines Smithsonian-Stipendiums in Panama, in dessen Rahmen ich drei Monate Feldforschung in abgelegenen Mangrovengebieten durchführte. Davor war ich als Postdoktorandin an der University of Queensland in Australien tätig, mit Schwerpunkt auf der hydrologischen Wiederherstellung geschädigter Mangroven für Küstenschutz und Kohlenstoffbindung. Außerhalb der akademischen Laufbahn verfüge ich über sechs Jahre Berufserfahrung als Beraterin im Bereich Wasserwirtschaft und Küsteningenieurwesen.

2025 – heute: Alexander von Humboldt Stipendiatin, Leichtweiß-Institut für Wasserbau, Abt. Hydromechanik, Küsteningenieurwesen und Seebau

2025: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Naos Molecular and Marine Laboratory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

2021-2025: Postdoc, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, Australia

2020: Wasserwirtschaft & Küsteningenieurwesen, AECOM, Brisbane, Australia

2013-2016: Ingenieurin für Wasserwirtschaft, SMEC, Brisbane, Australia

2026

Twomey, A. J., & Hatcher, H. (2026). Coastal protection via sediment accretion in mangrove ecosystems. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-026-00758-2

2025

Twomey, A. J., Erickson, K., Bishop, M. J., Boody, K., Callaghan, D. P., Cannard, T., ... & Bugnot, A. (2025). Interdisciplinary solutions to enable nature-based solutions for coastal protection achieve ecological and engineering outcomes. Environmental Science & Policy, 171, 104157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104157

Twomey, A. J., & Lovelock, C. E. (2025). Variation in mangrove geometric traits among genera and climate zones. Estuaries and Coasts, 48(2), 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01487-3

Twomey, A. J., Hyman, J., Indraswari, K., Kotz, M., Morgans, C. L., & Bairos-Novak, K. R. (2025). From silos to solutions: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2024.12.002

Twomey, A. J., & Lovelock, C. E. (2025). Mangrove geometric traits among genera and climate zones. PANGAEA. https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.973520

Twomey, A.J., Cowley, D., Callaghan, D.P., Lovelock, C.E. (2025) Effect of tree geometry and spatial zonation on sediment blue carbon capture in mangrove forests. Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 101, Number 3, pp. 1525-1716(192). 6^th Mangrove, Macrobenthos and Management Meeting, Cartagena, Colombia July 2023. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2024.0042

Bennion, V., Twomey, A. J., Hill, J. W., Pearse, A. L., Kwan, V., de Oliveira, M., & Lovelock, C. E. (2025). Trajectories in soil surface elevation during tidal restoration of heterogeneous coastal wetlands. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 109455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109455

2024

Twomey, A., & Lovelock, C. (2024). Global spatial dataset of mangrove genus distribution in seaward and riverine margins. Scientific Data, 11(1), 306. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03134-1

Twomey, A. J., Nunez, K., Carr, J. A., Crooks, S., Friess, D. A., Glamore, W., ... & Lovelock, C. E. (2024). Planning hydrological restoration of coastal wetlands: Key model considerations and solutions. Science of the Total Environment, 915, 169881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169881

Twomey, A. J., Baker, A., Waltham, N., & Lovelock, C. E. (2024). Calculating carbon: The value of information in precision for blue carbon restoration projects. Journal of Environmental Management, 370, 122657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122657

Bennion, V., Dwyer, J. M., Twomey, A. J., & Lovelock, C. E. (2024). Decadal trends in surface elevation and tree growth in coastal wetlands of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Estuaries and Coasts, 47(7), 1955-1971. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01325-y

Lovelock, C. E., Bennion, V., de Oliveira, M., Hagger, V., Hill, J. W., Kwan, V., ... & Twomey, A. J. (2024). Mangrove ecology guiding the use of mangroves as nature‐based solutions. Journal of Ecology, 112(11), 2510-2521. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14383

Okoffo, E. D., Tan, E., Grinham, A., Gaddam, S. M. R., Yip, J. Y. H., Twomey, A. J., ... & Bostock, H. (2024). Plastic pollution in moreton bay sediments, Southeast Queensland, Australia. Science of The Total Environment, 920, 170987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170987

Saunders, M. I., Cannard, T., Fischer, M., Sheppard, M., Twomey, A., Morris, R., ... & Waltham, N. J. (2024). A roadmap to coastal and marine ecological restoration in Australia. Environmental Science & Policy, 159, 103808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103808

2023

Twomey, A. J., Staples, T. L., Remmerswaal, A., Wuppukondur, A., & Lovelock, C. E. (2023). Mangrove ghost forests provide opportunities for seagrass. Frontiers in Climate, 5, 1284829. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1284829

Twomey, A. J., & Lovelock, C. E. (2023). Global Spatial Dataset of Mangrove Genus Distribution in Seaward and Riverine Margins. PANGAEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.942481

Twomey, A. J., Remmerswaal, A., & Lovelock, C. E. (2023). Seagrass presence and absence in mangrove ghost forests in Moreton Bay, Australia. PANGAEA. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.963902

2022

Twomey, A., O'Brien, K., Callaghan, D., & Saunders, M. (2022). Wave drag coefficient useful for nature: seagrass-based coastal protection design in estuaries. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, (37), 57-57. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v37.management.57

Twomey, A. J., Callaghan, D. P., O'Brien, K. R., & Saunders, M. I. (2022). Contextualising shoreline protection by seagrass using lessons from submerged breakwaters. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 276, 108011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108011

Saunders, M. I., Waltham, N. J., Cannard, T., Sheppard, M., Fischer, M., Twomey, A., ... & Steven, A. D. L. (2022). A roadmap for coordinated landscape-scale coastal and marine ecosystem restoration. Cairns, Australia. https://doi.org/10.25919/xtfh-2d54

Ward-Paige, C. A., White, E. R., Madin, E. M. P., Osgood, G. J., Bailes, L. K., Bateman, R. L., ..., Twomey, A. J., & Yamb, L. (2022). A framework for mapping and monitoring human-ocean interactions in near real-time during COVID-19 and beyond. Marine Policy, 140, 105054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105054

2021

Twomey, A. J., Saunders, M. I., Callaghan, D. P., Bouma, T. J., Han, Q., & O'Brien, K. R. (2021). Lateral sediment erosion with and without the non-dense root-mat forming seagrass Enhalus acoroides. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 253, 107316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107316

2020

Twomey, A. J., O'Brien, K. R., Callaghan, D. P., & Saunders, M. I. (2020). Synthesising wave attenuation for seagrass: Drag coefficient as a unifying indicator. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 160, 111661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111661

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