Experience

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  Spectrum Ecology & Spatial

  • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  • Principal Zoologist

    • Apr 2023 - Present
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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  Biota Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd

  • Environmental Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Principal Zoologist

    • Oct 2018 - Apr 2023

    Design, coordinate, implement and manage zoological studies for Environmental Impact Assessment in Western Australia:• Terrestrial zoological surveys (Desktop, Basic, Detailed and Targeted);• Subterranean fauna assessments (stygofauna and troglofauna);• Short-Range Endemic fauna assessments;• Project management;• Team management; and• Industry and scientific institution liaison.

  • Fauna Team Manager

    • Jun 2009 - Mar 2022

  • Senior Zoologist

    • Jun 2009 - Oct 2018

  • Zoologist

    • Jun 2004 - Jun 2009

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  Research and Conservation Foundation of Papua New Guinea

  • Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands.

  • Technical advisor & supervisor for the monitoring program.

    • Feb 2001 - Dec 2001
    • Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands.

    • Reviewed, developed and streamlined the monitoring program to incorporate all RCF projects.• Trained counterpart staff and indigenous landowners to effectively collect, enter, analyse and report the results of the monitoring program.• Assessed the most effective methods for collecting socio-economic and biological data that test the assumptions of the integrated conservation and development project.• Incorporated the monitoring program into a natural resource management plan for the wildlife management area.

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  Australian Antarctic Division

  • Antarctica and Macquarie Island

  • Field Assistant | Research Assistant

    • Jul 1999 - Nov 1999
    • Antarctica and Macquarie Island

    • Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) member;• team member - Southern Elephant Seal population research; and• assistant to sea ice research program

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  University of Western Australia

  • Entomology Department

  • Research Assistant

    • Jan 1997 - Apr 1998
    • Entomology Department

    Researching acoustic communication in Australian bush crickets (Tettigoniidae).