Dr Scott Burnett
BSc(Hons) James Cook, PhD James Cook
Position: Lecturer – Wildlife Ecology
Office: I1.11A
Tel: +61 7 5459 4812
Email: sburnett@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Australian Wildlife
- Urban Wildlife Conservation
Research areas
- ecology and conservation strategies for endangered vertebrates
- ecology of Australian carnivorous marsupials
- novel techniques for monitoring wildlife populations
- feeding ecology of owls
- fauna inventory
Profile
Dr Scott Burnett moved from the Sunshine Coast area in the mid-1980’s to commence a BSc at James Cook University in Townsville. During the subsequent 20 years, he worked as an environmental consultant, university research assistant, and finally a technical officer with the Threatened Species Unit of the QPWS in Atherton. During this time, and partly resulting from his PhD studies on Spotted-tailed Quolls, Scott came to an appreciation of the integral role of the community in wildlife conservation.
Scott returned with his family to south-east Queensland to begin working as a Wildlife Projects Officer with the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland in early 2005. This job allowed Scott to meld to two streams of academia and community extension into a single program in which the community are engaged with wildlife research and monitoring.
In 2006, Scott became an adjunct and sessional staff member of the University, and in 2008 took up a contract to teach Australian Wildlife, develop new wildlife courses and participate in the development of a campus wildlife management plan.
Publications
Many of Dr Scott Burnett's publications are available on the Coast Research Database.
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