She started undergraduate life in Agricultural Science, spent 12 years away from work, raising children, and completed a PhD in environmental science here at the University of Melbourne in 2003. She has been an ARC Future Fellow, and now has an ongoing appointment. Species distribution models are used by both academics and practitioners, and Jane has been particularly interested in the methods and their appropriateness for the data and questions to which they are often applied. Her research has applied significance because distribution modelling is key in many aspects of species management, including understanding current distributions of threatened species, predicting how distributions might change in the future, supporting threat management, and controlling invasive species.