Hey there! I’m Kristine Camille Buenafe, but I go by Tin.
I’m a PhD candidate at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Sciences at the University of Queensland.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch through any of my socials!
Research interests
Featured publications
- Buenafe, KCV et al. (in review). Current approaches and future opportunities in designing climate-smart protected areas. Nature Reviews Biodiversity.
- review on how measures of climate change have been quantitatively and explicitly incorporated in the design process of area-based management tools (e.g., protected areas)
- Buenafe, KCV et al. (2023). A metric-based framework for climate-smart conservation planning. Ecological Applications.
- methods paper providing practical guidance on identifying and prioritizing climate-smart areas in conservation planning using climate metrics
See my Google Scholar Page for my entire list of publications.
Featured work
- Involvement in the conservation planning work in
- small-island Pacific nations with the Waitt Institute, and
- the Weddell Sea (in the Southern Ocean) with the Norwegian Polar Institute
- Development of an R-package for wrangling climate-model outputs