Person

Woinarski, John Casimir Zichy

Occupation
Ecologist and Ornithologist

Summary

John Woinarski, an ecologist with the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory from 1991, is interested in the conservation and ecology of Australian birds.

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Chronology

1984
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Monash University
1987
Award - Christensen Research Fellowship
1988 - 1990
Career position - Experimental Scientist, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology
1991 -
Career position - Ecologist, Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory
2001
Award - Eureka Prize for Biodiversity Research, Australia Museum
2001
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion
2001
Award - Serventy Medal, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
2008
Award - Northern Territory Chief Minister's Award for Research and Innovation
2008
Award - Northern Territory Tropical Knowledge Research and Innovation Award
2017 -
Award - Fellow, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published resources

Books

  • Woinarski, John, A bat's end: the Christmas Island Pipistrelle and extinction in Australia (Clayton South, Vic: CSIRO Publishing, 2018), 280 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Presland, Gary, 'Australian Natural History Medallion 2011: John C. Z. Woinarski', The Victorian naturalist, 129 (1) (2012), 20-1, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.050298631630892. Details
  • Woinarski, J. C. Z. and Catterall, C. P., 'Historical changes in the bird fauna at Coomooboolaroo, northeastern Australia, from the early years of pastoral settlement (1873) to 1999', Biological conservation, 116 (2004), 379-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00231-3. Details
  • Woinarski, J. C. Z; Brennan, K; Cowie, I; Fisher, A; Latz, P. K.; and Russell-Smith, J, 'Vegetation of the Wessel and English Company Islands, North-eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia', Australian Journal of Botany, 48 (1) (2000), 115-141. Details
  • Woinarski, John, 'D. L. Serventy Medal 1995: citation James Allen Keast', Emu, 95 (1995), 301. Details

Resources

See also

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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