Director, the Wildlife Observatory of Australia
ARC Senior Research Fellow (DECRA)
Chief Investigator @ UQ Centre for Biodiversity & Conservation Science
Senior Lecturer @ UQ School of Biological Sciences
Researcher @ the UCLA Congo Basin Intitute
Previously:
Postdocs with Singapore-NTU Asian School of the Environment & the Smithsonian Institute ForestGEO program
PhD from UC Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy and Management
BAs from UCLA in Economics and Geography
Postdocs
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(WildObs @ UQ)
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In charge of Australian wildlife monitoring programs, funded by CBCS and tasked with helping start WildObs!
Calebe Mendes, PhD
(based in Singapore)
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In charge of Singapore wildlife monitoring programs, funded by NParks grant on wild boar rewilding.
Current PhD students
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PhD student at UQ
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Remote sensing and spatial ecology, co-advised with Profs Laura Sonter and Stuart Phimm
Skye Anderson
Cassowaries and Australian wildlfie cascades using WildObs' massive camera trap datasets
Zachary Amir, PhD
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(WildObs @ UQ)
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In charge of Australian wildlife monitoring programs, funded by TERN and leading the national camera trap database
Shinyen Chiu
ECL PhD student at UQ
Wildlife ecology
MSc & MPhil students (graduated)
Cascading impacts from feral pigs in the Australian Wet Tropics rainforests
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Honours students (graduated)
ECL BFFs & Alumni
Stuart Davies
Director of Smithonian's ForestGEO, Luskin's postdoc advisor and continuing collaborator
Stuart Davies
Director of Smithonian's ForestGEO, Luskin's postdoc advisor and continuing collaborator
(based USA)
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Leads project assessing the biases and utility of easy camera trapping metrics (RAI)
Works on initiative to add published camera trap wildlife occurrences to GBIF database
Works on initiative to add published camera trap wildlife occurrences to GBIF database
Kenny Png, PhD
NTU-Wardle postdoc
(based in Singapore with
Prof David Wardle)
In charge of Matthew's wildlife exclusion experiment with NParks in Singapore
