Penny Wurm

Research Active Senior Lecturer, CDU College of Engineering, IT and Environment

Registered to supervise postgraduate research

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Dr Penny Wurm is an applied plant ecologist with a research practice that includes ecological, agricultural and livelihood applications in northern Australia, eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste. I hold a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and PhD (Ecology). Research on the values and ecology of native Australian rices has led to investigations into the development of enterprises based on native rice - in collaboration with Dr Sean Bellairs at CDU, two CRCs, an Aboriginal enterprise and Territory agencies. Knowledge of the ecology and values of native rices, have also led to investigation of threats posed by invasive grasses to native rices. My student supervision includes projects on invasive species on disturbed sites and monsoonal wetlands, cashew horticulture in Timor Leste, irrigated rice systems in eastern Indonesian and soon in Timor Leste, and commercialisation of native species for Aboriginal enterprises, currently Kakadu Plum and native rices.

I have teaching collaborations with Indonesian colleagues, focussed on rural livelihoods, in eastern Indonesia. Collaboratively, I have developed and taught two Indonesian field intensives, in partnership with Indonesian university colleagues. I am passionate about teaching and have won three national and one institutional team teaching awards, and have served an Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at the College level.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD

Award Date: 19 Feb 2026

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Research Output

13 Article
3 Other report
3 Conference Paper published in Proceedings
2 Book
5 More

Kakadu Plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana) as a Sustainable Indigenous Agribusiness

Gorman, J. T., Wurm, P. A. S., Vemuri, S., Brady, C. & Sultanbawa, Y., 20 Nov 2019, In : Economic Botany. p. 1-18 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

Spatial dynamics of invasive para grass on a monsoonal floodplain, Kakadu National Park, Northern Australia

Boyden, J., Wurm, P., Joyce, K. E. & Boggs, G., 1 Sep 2019, In : Remote Sensing. 11, 18, p. 1-31 31 p., 2090.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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A spatial vulnerability assessment of monsoonal wetland habitats to para grass invasion in Kakadu National Park, northern Australia

Boyden, J., Wurm, P., Joyce, K. & Boggs, G., Sep 2018, In : International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 71, p. 43-55 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

North Australian native rice: Market evaluation of a potential new wild food enterprise

Bellairs, S. & Wurm, P. P., 1 Sep 2018, AgriFutures Australia . 20 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Open Access

Deployment of Open Data Kit for Information Management for Various Engineering Projects In Rural, Indonesia

Narayan, M., Evans, K., Lamsal, B., Thapa, R., Hobgen, S. E., Myers, B., Wurm, P., Godwin, P. B., Riwu Kaho, N. & Markus, J., 29 Mar 2017, In : International Research Journal of Electronics and Computer Engineering. 3, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access