Paul Meek
Paul has been working on several research projects with the Vertebrate Pest Research Unit and University of New England over the last few years. He has been Project Leader on CISS projects: Wild Dog Alert and Intelli-traps (E-Hub). He is currently a part of the Prep4Reset and Feral Cat research project team. Previously he was a Project Officer with NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and Regional Ecologist with Forests NSW. He has worked as an ecologist throughout Australia including working on several Islands such as Christmas, Bowen and Mutton Bird, and spent time working on projects overseas in Mongolia, Malaysia, Bali, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and the USA.
Paul has over 30 years’ experience as a pest animal researcher and was the co-founder of two landscape scale fox control projects in NSW (Booderee NP and Beecroft Peninsula). Since 2010 he has been involved in camera trap research on Hastings river mice, native and introduced rodents, shrews, wild dogs, rock wallabies, feral pigs, foxes and feral cats. Paul's main camera trap interests are focussed on evaluating the effectiveness of camera traps and testing the robustness of these devices for research and monitoring purposes. In 2011 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to Europe and the USA investigating camera trap use in wildlife research and management.
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Featured Projects
DisplayingDevelopment of a Foot-hold Trap Alert System
Development of a Foot-hold Trap Alert System
Rock Wallaby Ecology, Quoll AI Identification
Rock Wallaby Ecology, Quoll AI Identification
Koala Ecology and Interactions with Wild Dogs (Supervisor)
Koala Ecology and Interactions with Wild Dogs (Supervisor)
Singing Dog Detection (Papua New Guinea)
Singing Dog Detection (Papua New Guinea)
Feral Cat Ecology and Control
Feral Cat Ecology and Control
Nocturnalism in Mammals (USA)
Nocturnalism in Mammals (USA)
Prep4Reset
Prep4Reset
Ecology of Eld’s Deer (Supervisor/Cambodia)
Ecology of Eld’s Deer (Supervisor/Cambodia)
Wild Dog Ecology (Moomba), Wild Dog Alert
Wild Dog Ecology (Moomba), Wild Dog Alert
E-Hub Technology Portfolio (Intelli-traps)
E-Hub Technology Portfolio (Intelli-traps)
Recent Publications
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Aerial baiting and wild dog mortality in south eastern Australia
Wildlife Research. In press.
Efficacy of lethal-trap devices to improve the welfare of trapped wild dogs
Wildlife Research 46, 89-95.
Camera Trapping Technology and Advances: into the New Millennium
Australian Zoologist.
Animal welfare considerations for using large carnivores and guardian dogs as vertebrate biocontrol tools against other animals
Biological Conservation 232, 258-270
Techniques and practices of Australian pest animal trappers
Pacific Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1071/PC18044.
How long is a dingo's tale?: Impacts of sampling design on our understanding of dingo ecology
Australian Zoologist: 2018, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 581-590
Contact
Email: paul.meek@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Research branch: Animal and Plant Biosecurity
Location: Coffs Harbour