John Woinarski

John Casimir Zichy Woinarski (born September 26, 1955 ), often written as John CZ Woinarski , is an Australian ecologist and ornithologist .

Life

Woinarski began his interest in ornithology as a research assistant at Geelong Grammar School. From there he moved to the National Parks Service of Victoria . From July to September 1982 he was involved in a research project by the Edward Gray Institute and Monash University on the endangered flag bustard in the Indian state of Gujarat . In 1984 he was with the Dissertation Ecology of pardalotes in southeastern Australia at Monash University for Ph.D. PhD. From 1988 to 1990 he was an experimental scientist in the Wildlife and Ecology Department of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). He has been an ecologist with the Northern Territory Conservation Commission since 1991 .

John Woinarski has been involved in conservation research, policy and management in Australia since the 1970s. Much of that time he worked in Northern Australia.

In 2017 Woinarski was involved in the chapter on long-tailed mice (Muridae) in the seventh volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World .

Woinarski has written extensively on ecology and conservation, with a particular focus on birds and mammals and endangered species in general.

He is Associate Director of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub (TSRH) at the National Environment Science Program and Professor at the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) at Charles Darwin University .

In 1994 Woinarski was one of the first to describe the cockatoo-narrow-footed pouch mouse ( Smithopsis bindi ).

Awards

In 2001 Woinarski received the Eureka Prize from the Australian Museum for Biodiversity Research . In the same year he was awarded the DL Serventy Medal of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union . In 2019 he received the Whitley Award from the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales in the Conservation Biology category for the book A Bat's End .

Fonts (selection)

• Eucalypt Ecology: Individuals to Ecosystems , 1997
• A field guide to the rodents and dasyurids of the Northern Territory , 2002
• Lost from Our Landscape: Threatened Species of the Northern Territory , 2007
• The Nature of Northern Australia: It's Natural Values, Ecological Processes and Future Prospects , 2007
• The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 , 2014
• Recovering Australian Threatened Species: A Book of Hope , 2018
• A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Modern Extinction in Australia , 2018
• with Sarah Legge and Chris Dickman : Cats in Australia: Companion and Killer , 2019
• with David Chapple, Reid Tingley, Nicola Mitchell, Stewart Macdonald, J. Scott Keogh, Glenn Shea, Philip Bowles and Neil Cox: The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017 , 2019

literature

• Michael Brooker, Michael Ridpath: DL Serventy Medal 2001: Citation. John CZ Woinarski. Emu 101, 2001, p. 272.

Web links

• Short biographical entry on Researchdata
• Short biography on The Conversation
• Short biography (PDF, as of 2010)