Wildlife Health Project Officer     

Jane is the Registry’s Wildlife Health Project Officer. She has over 20 years’ research experience spanning biology, ecology, wildlife health and pathology, conservation sciences, and data management. Projects have included a wide variety of species including amphibians, birds, reptiles and terrestrial and aquatic mammals in both remote and metropolitan locations. Research projects have been conducted in collaboration with a number of federal and state government and non-government agencies, universities, and not-for profit organisations. In 2016 Jane was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to explore ways in which Australia can improve its capacity to mitigate wildlife disease incidents. 

Jane’s role includes responsibilities such as: project conceptualisation, management and administration; animal capture, restraint and anaesthesia; sample collection and management; management of large, complex data sets; diagnostic testing including: haematology, biochemistry, parasitology, microbiology; and communication. 

In addition to her full-time role with the Registry, Jane is undertaking a part-time PhD at Griffith University, studying New Zealand fur seal health to better understand the impacts of disease and pollution on this endemic Australian species.