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Queensland

• James Cook University

• University of Queensland

  Associate Professor Hamish McCallum is interested in the epidemiology of the chytrid fungus. He is also monitoring the effects of cane toads upon native frog populations.

• Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service

  Mr Harry Hines in Brisbane and Dr Keith McDonald in Atherton are both amphibian ecologists working on disease.

New South Wales

• University of Newcastle

Dr Michael J. Mahony works in the discipline of Biological Sciences at the University of Newcastle. Dr. Mahony is interested in Conservation Biology with a particular emphasis on conservation genetics. He is currently conducting research on species recovery plans for several species of frogs known to be endangered. He is also interested in biological control of cane toads. For more information contact:

• Dr Michael Mahony, Discipline of Biology, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia.

Email: michael.mahony@newcastle.edu.au

• University of Western Sydney

  Associate Professor Shelley Burgin and co-workers are currently conducting research which integrates current biological knowledge of herpetofauna into catchment management processes. They have studied factors which may be detrimental to frog survival and breeding biology. They are currently researching the status, ecology and population dynamics of frog populations within the Sydney region. She is supervising a number of postgraduate projects including:

  • The use of rehabilitated mine sites by frog populations.
  • Reproduction in Limnodynastes peronii.

  For more information contact:

  • A/Prof. Shelley Burgin, Science Department, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, NSW 2753, Australia.
    Email: S.Burgin@uws.edu.au

• State Forests of NSW

Victoria

• CSIRO Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Victoria.

  Dr Alex Hyatt has developed both an ELISA and real-time PCR to test for the chytrid fungus. For more information contact:

  • Dr Alex Hyatt, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Ryrie St, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia.
    Email: Alex.Hyatt@csiro.au

• Arthur Rylah Institute - Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria

  Graeme Gillespie is a herpetologist involved in declining frog work.

• Amphibian Research Centre

  Gerry Marantelli runs the Amphibian Research Centre dedicated to the research and conservation of Australian frogs. For more information contact:

  • The Amphibian Research Centre, PO Box 424, Brunswick, VIC 3056, Australia.
    Email: arc@frogs.org.au

Tasmania

• University of Tasmania

  Associate Professor Roy Swain has many research interests which include the ecology and evolutionary adaptation of amphibians.

South Australia

• University of Adelaide

  Associate Professor Michael Tyler is interested in the evolution and systematics of frogs, frogs as biomonitors and pharmaceutical agents in frog secretions. Dr Margaret Davies is also involved in research into the evolution, systematics and biology of frogs through osteology, ontogeny, functional anatomy and field observations.

Western Australia

• Western Australian Museum

  Dr Ken Aplin works at the Museum of Western Australia's Reptile and Amphibian Research
  Centre, is the Frogwatch coordinator for the area and coordinates the WA chytrid mapping project. Peter Kirkpatrick is a chytrid histopathology expert.

• University of Western Australia

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Last Updated: October, 2001.