User:Deane Smith
Appearance
Life:
- Avid ecologist, conservationist and animal lover.
- Painter and Guitarist for the infamous "Jock Robinsons"
- Podcast listener and lover of knowledge
- Australian and Traveller
Academic training:
- Bachelor of Science (Majoring in Zoology and Genetics)
- Honours (Ecology)
- Current PhD research student (Molecular and behavioural ecology)
Projects
- Current
- Effects of exclusion fencing on non-target wildlife
- Genetic variation in the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby using High-throughput sequencing
- Effects of exclusion fencing on wildlife densities (Assisting)
- Census population size of Feral pigs on Morton Island, inferred from DNA sampling (Assisting)
- Past
- Activity and behavioural patterns of Yellow-footed rock-wallaby in Queensland (Assisted)
- Effective methods of non-invasive genetic sampling in the arid zone, Australia
- Vertebrate species densities in an untouched Eucalyptus forest on the Severn River, inferred from trail camera data
- Investigations of PAPP use for control of Dingo and Fox populations in Australia (Assisted)
- Genetic variation in feral cat populations of Australia
Work History:
- 3 years as a Molecular Ecologist
- 2 years demonstrating and teaching Evolutionary Biogeography
- 8 years as a stockman on an Cattle Stud.
- 2 years concurrently as a Baker
- 1 year bartending