December - 2018

Funded! Griffith University 2019 International Workshop Award!

Prof. Hamish McCallum and Dr. Laura Grogan have just been awarded a Griffith University 2019 International Workshop Award to a total of $8,760 ($6,260 from the Office for Research, and $2,500 from the Environmental Futures Research Institute)! The emergence of fungal diseases is increasing globally and having important impacts on biodiversity and human health. Through our funded ARC Discovery Project, we are currently developing a novel modelling framework for such fungal dis

Funded! Thais is awarded the ESA Student Research Grant!

Huge congratulations to Thais Sasso Lopes for being awarded the Ecological Society of Australia's Student Research Grant valued at $1,440! Thais plans to use the funds to perform critical pilot surveys for her amphibian chytridiomycosis study investigating community and landscape-level drivers of population recovery of Fleay's barred frog (Mixophyes fleayi) across its distributional range. She will combine an occupancy survey and modelling approach with environmental DNA samp

ASH & SRARNZ conference 2018!

Over the last few days several members of our team (Laura Grogan, Mariel Familiar Lopez and Thais Sasso Lopes) attended the combined meeting of the Australian Society of Herpetologists and the Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand, held at Kindilan Camp, Redland Bay, Queensland, Australia. It was a great conference with an impressive selection of research presented in two parallel sessions over 2.5 days. Below are the abstracts from our team members.

Hamish awarded for research leadership!

Yesterday, Prof. Hamish McCallum received the Griffith Sciences Award for Research Leadership! Congratulations Hamish!

First eDNA sampling pilot!

Thais, PhD candidate in our Frog Research Team ran her first official pilot survey for her PhD project in the last couple of days! Here are three of the intrepid explorers (Laura took the photo), Thais, Liam and Kaitlyn of the red boots (our generous volunteer)! Thais meticulously prepared the equipment, careful not to contaminate the important tubing and filter cups. Kaitlyn recorded site measurement data using a Kestrel wind meter. The next step was carefully collecting cle

Dr. Laura Grogan promoted to Research Fellow Grade 2!

The outcomes of the annual promotion round at Griffith University were announced today, and our team member Dr. Laura Grogan has been promoted to Research Fellow Grade 2 (equivalent to Academic Level B) for Outstanding Achievement in Research!