Research Staff - Biodiversity North
Dr John Woinarski – Principal Scientist
Qualifications
John Woinarski has a PhD in zoology and has 20 years experience of wildlife research the Northern Territory. Dr Woinarski has been a project leader in the Tropical Savannas Co-operative Research Centre since its inception; is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Environmental Research, Chales Darwin University.
Dr. Woinarski has written about 200 scientific publications, including 4 books, 30 chapters in books and 150 peer reviewed scientific papers.
Research
Dr John Woinarski is an internationally recognised researcher in many fields of biodiversity. John has studied a broad range of issues including threatened species, biogeographic patterning of plants and animals, and the impacts upon biodiversity of a range of land uses and threatening processes.
Dr Woinarski is an expert in the development of rigorous and explicitly quantitative wildlife survey protocols, that are now employed as standard practice within the Northern Territory, and increasingly elsewhere in northern Australia.
This research activity has been complemented by his application of results to conservation planning, and the design and implementation of conservation actions collaboratively with Aboriginal landowners and pastoralists.
Within NRETA Dr Woinarski has a primary role as the recognised expert on the inventory and monitoring of terrestrial biodiversity, and on the ecology of the Northern Territory and northern Australia generally.
Prizes/Awards
In 2001, Dr Woinarski was awarded Australia’s premier award for biodiversity research, the Eureka Prize, and the Serventy Medal, for his lifetime contribution to Australian ornithological research.
