ACADEMIC CAREER 1991 BSc (Hons) University of Sydney 1997 Ph.D. University of Sydney 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Turku, Finland 1999 Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, UNSW 2005 Senior Lecturer, School of BEES, UNSW TEACHING BEES2041 - Data Analysis for Life & Earth Scientists BIOS2061 - Vertebrate Zoology BIOS3601 - Advanced Field Biology BIOS3161 - Life in Arid Lands BIOS9001 - Masters in Environmental Management: Fundamental knowledge in Ecology

President Royal Zoological Society of NSW

Editorial Board Oecologia

International Editorial Board Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology

Editorial Advisory Committee Wildlife Research

Editorial Board Australian Zoologist

 

• Andrew Lothian (2007) - Long-term dynamics of an endangered urban bandicoot population
• Alexis Watson (2006) - Olfaction and prey detection by alien rats
• Lena Grinsted (Practicum program, University of Copenhagen 2006) - Rat predation of birds nest: the role of bird odours

• Alex Carthey - The role of odour in the foraging behaviour of rodents
• Romane Cristescu -
• Wendy Gleen -
• Rachel Miller (MSc with Grant Singleton IRRI, Phillipines) - Ecology and impacts of black rats on rice crops in the Banaue rice terraces, Philippines
• Catherine Price (PhD) - Novel techniques to improve reintroduction success for endangered wildlife
• Caragh Threfall -
• Malith Weerakoon -

• Vicki Stokes (PhD 2007, with Dr Roger Pech, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems) - Ecological role of feral black rats in Australia
• Ben Russell (PhD 2006) - The ecology of alien and native predator and prey behavioural interactions
• Peter Brown (PhD 2005)  with Dr Grant Singleton, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems) - The dynamics of compensation in population processes
• Elke Venstra (MSc University of Amsterdam 2004) - Habitat selection at the urban bushland interface: are bandicoots caught in an ecological trap?
• Roy Wilson (MSc 2004) - Ecology of southern-brown bandicoots
• Matt Hayward (PhD 2003) - The ecology of the mainland Quokka metapopulation
• Rochelle Basham (2005) - Bats in Sydney's urban fragments
• Jessica Bryant (2005) - Ecological impacts of dog walking
• Jenna Bytheway (2005)  - The role of odour in the foraging behaviour of rodents
• Brian Hawkins (Hons 2004)- Testing landscape models of habitat use by yellow-bellied gliders in Gosford LGA
• Tania Rose (Hons 2004) - Ecology and Impacts of black rats at North Head
• Candida Barclay (Hons 2004) - Mechanisms of road crossing behavior in small mammals

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