Glen Joseph Ingram
Glen Joseph Ingram (born April 22, 1951 in Rockhampton , Australia ) is an Australian zoologist .
Life
Ingram received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Queensland at Brisbane in 1975 and a Ph.D. in 1986 from the same university. PhD. From 1974 to 1992 he was a curator at the Queensland Museum . From 1993 to 1998 he was head of the vertebrate department. From 1998 to 2000 he was a senior environmental scientist at Hyder Australia. From 2001 to 2006 he was the managing director of the environmental consultancy Biodiversity Assessment and Management Pty Ltd (BAAM) in Queensland. Since September 2006 he has been working as an independent environmental consultant. Ingram's interests are in the systematics , biogeography and evolution of birds, reptiles, frogs and woodlice. He did field work in Australia, Malaysia, Guam, New Caledonia, Fiji, Kenya, Zaire, Zimbabwe and Namibia. As a conservationist, he studied the decline in frog populations.
Ingram described 37 lizard and snake species, several of them with the Australian herpetologist Jeanette Covacevich (1945–2015), ten frog species and he has confirmed the validity of 40 other species.
Ingram has done extensive research on rainforests, monsoon forests, and creeper thickets in eastern and northern Australia, including the tropics, where he studied the way of life of vertebrates. This included the planning, implementation, monitoring and documentation of studies and research projects. He also studied the terrestrial vertebrates of Felsen and the Wallum , an Australian heathland , and illustrated their uniqueness as a habitat for animals. In the Wallum he discovered the tree frog Litoria olongburensis , which is now considered a critical indicator species for the environmental health of these areas.
In 1988, Ingram appeared in the Australian documentary Cane Toads: An Unnatural History directed by Mark Lewis.
Ingram published 140 scientific and popular scientific articles, An Atlas of Queensland's Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals (1991) and Invertebrate Biodiversity and Conservation (1994).
Dedication names
The skin cards Ctenotus ingrami (1982) and Lerista ingrami (1991) are named after Ingram .
literature
- Ed .: Nicholas Polunin, Lynn M. Curme: World Who's who and Does what in Environment & Conservation Google Book view
Web links
- Profile for Glen Ingram on LinkedIn
- Employee profile at BAAM (PDF)
- Glen Joseph Ingram in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ingram, Glen Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rockhampton , Australia |