User:Deane Smith

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