Cleveland, Queensland, Australia
An Ecologist with experience in a broad range of environmental research and monitoring, particularly the conservation of biological diversity and management of natural resources - ecological surveys for natural areas assessment, threatened species assessment, determine species and community responses to various disturbances. I have experience sampling birds, mammals, reptiles, ants, dragonflies and macroinvertebrates and habitat-vegetation. In northern Australia I experience sampling vegetation, mammals and reptiles often in remote areas. During 1997-2002 I worked for BirdLife International-ndonesian Programme (now Burung Indonesia) as an Ecologist, doing biodiversity assessments in Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste. I visited more than 30 islands, typically surveying a wide range of fauna, particularly birds. This included capacity building for local government and NGO workers in biological field survey/protected area inventory techniques. In Timor-Leste (2002-2010), work included consulting projects on transmission and proposed hydropower works in Timor-Leste, and an AusAID funded assessment of the distribution and impacts on native fauna of an invasive toad. Recent work history • February- 2011- Sep 2012, Senior Zoologist with ENV. Australia (Perth) working on Level 1 and Level 2 fauna assessments in Western Australian (mostly Pilbara and South West). A total of four Level 2 surveys (involve fauna trapping with Elliott, cage, pitfall and funnel traps, camera trapping, bird and other survey techniques over 12-13 days) including one ‘two-season’ (>20 days survey in total) survey have been conducted in the Pilbara, as well as about 10 Level 1 surveys (of 1-8 days, usually observational without trapping). • June 2010, Indicus Biological Consultants on ERA project, Survey of the status of Brush-tailed Rabbit-rat.
Bird Red List Authority 2017-2020
Ecology, Biogeography, Taxonomy, Conservation (Australia, Indonesia, East Timor)
Broad scale ecological survey at 50+ sites based on fire history of small mammals using camera trapping, birds using field surveys and acoustic devices [Sm2], plant and habitat survey, bat survey using acoustic devices, and ant survey