- Education and Employment Experience::
Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) in Environmental Engineering, University of Western Australia, 2003
Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours), in Environmental Chemistry, University of Western Australia, 2001
- Papers and Presentations:
American Geophysical Union (2007), Joint Assembly - Acapulco, Mexico, 22-25 May (H52-B) "Wind-Dispersion of Biomass in Patterned Vegetation Models: From Classical Diffusion to WALD"
Honours thesis (2003) entitled "Modelling the Use of Tree Belts for Dryland Salinity Management Using Hydrus 2D".
Guest Speaker International Council of Women's General Assembly, Perth, 2003, "Change, Conflict and Compromise - Youth Perspectives on Sustainability."
Honours thesis (2001) entitled "Communicating About the Greenhouse Effect with a Public Audience - a Study into the Public Understanding of Science."
Speaker (2001) - 32nd Australian Science Education Researchers Association Conference, Sydney
- Membership and Affiliations:
Chartered Professional Engineer, 2006, Engineers Australia
Student Member, American Geophysical Union
- Awards and Prizes:
James B Duke Fellowship, 2006, Duke University
General Sir John Monash Award, 2005, General Sir John Monash Foundation, Australia
Peter Cassell Scholarship, 2004, Sinclair Knight Merz
Valedictorian, 2003 Faculty of Engineering, University of Western Australia
Keulegan Prize 2003 for Best Honours Thesis in the School of Environmental Engineering, University of Western Australia
- Research accomplishments at Duke University:
Thompson., S, and G.G. Katul, 2008, Plant propagation fronts and wind dispersal: An analytical model to upscale from seconds to decades using superstatistics, The American Naturalist, 171, 468-479
Thompson, S., G.G. Katul, S. McMahon, 2008, Role of biomass spread in vegetation pattern formation within arid ecosystems, Water Resources Research, 44, W10421, doi:10.1029/2008WR006916.
Thompson, S. and G.G. Katul, 2009, Secondary seed dispersal and its role in landscape organization, Geophysical Research Letters , 36:L02402.
Thompson, S., G.G. Katul, J.Terborgh, and P. Alvarez-Loayza, 2009, Vegetation biomass spatial organisation arising from non-local excitation with local inhibition in tropical rainforests, accepted in Physica-D.
