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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.023
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-6-7
... training in field biology in undergraduate and graduate zoology programs. The projects undertaken by such students are, of necessity, short-term and typically vary between several months and two years of field work. In this paper we consider if such projects are compatible with studying the effects...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 193–200.
Published: 16 September 2014
.../HigherEducation/Pages/Library%20Card/TransformingAusHigherED.aspx Arnott, J. 2012. Graduate outlook report http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/research/researchreports/ http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/research/researchreports/ Bowden, J., Hart, G., King, B., Trigwell, K., and Watts, O. 2000. Generic...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 548–553.
Published: 20 October 2011
... at student workshop evaluating perceptions of their zoological education. Hochuli and Banks 5512008 AustralianZoologist volume 34 (4) departmental cultures. Successful PhD graduates were also perceived as those that graduate with skills beyond their specific taxa and project, enabling them to enter...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (3-4): 213–216.
Published: 17 March 2014
... the millipedes occasionally for recreation. THREAT TO THE MILLIPEDES In 1991, as part of the second phase of building for the Graduate School of Manage- ment, it was proposed that Mars Creek should be dammed (above the millipede site) to create a lake. The idea of building a lake to enhance the park-like...
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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 803–805.
Published: 07 December 2021
... from the University of California to visit Australia to search for Cenozoic record of Australia s marsupials. Stirton and his graduate student Dick Tedford came out in 1953 and began a detailed lengthy search of potential older sites in central South Australia, a nine month long expedition...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 530–537.
Published: 20 October 2011
... certainly outside their PhD institution. How did we become postdoctoral zoologists? MWH - One way that graduate students can initiate and develop postdoc positions is to have their PhD reviewed by someone with whom they would like to work. For MWH, this was difficult. MWH had a long-held desire to research...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 462–467.
Published: 01 May 2020
...: Creating Social Media Portfolios for Academic Promotion and Tenure. Journal of Graduate Medical Education 9: 421-425. Collins, K., Shiffman, D., and Rock J., 2016. How Are Scientists Using Social Media in the Workplace? PLoS ONE 11(10): e0162680. httpsdoi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162680 Darling, E. 2018...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 617–626.
Published: 01 December 2018
... with grants for graduate studies, which only extend for 2 or fewer years for MSc students and 4 years for PhD candidates. Researchers have attempted to circumvent this problem by setting up controlled experiments or field trials to assess the impacts of disturbance, and measure the outcome. Others have...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (4): 413–423.
Published: 03 October 2013
... in person for effective learning. Solutions can build on modified approaches used overseas and in other disciplines in Australia. Fisheries Wildlife Management Conservation Biology graduate education professional doctorate Aitchison, C., Catterall, J., Ross, P. and Burgin, S. 2012...
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Australian Zoologist (2017) 38 (3): 422–429.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., if not impossible, however, to determine if there is a decline in academic standards of science graduates when we have no starting measure to assess the standard of a science graduate. Perhaps our perspective is formed by imagining a halcyon day when all our science graduates could solve problems by working...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (3-4): 217–223.
Published: 17 March 2014
... and management Aust. J. Ecol. 18 53 61 Improving the use of Science in Environmental Assessments Peter G. Fainveather* Graduate School o f the Environment, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109 *Present address: CSIRO Division o f Water Resources, Griffith Laboratory, Private Mai l Bag No. 3...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 724–732.
Published: 01 December 2018
... depend too much on short term studies. This shortcoming was recognized many years ago (Likens 1989), but the fact that much ecological research is carried out by graduate students doing a 2-5-year graduate degree means that we are limited in obtaining a long-term view of an ecosystem. This is changing...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 404–406.
Published: 01 May 2020
... an intuition that the next satellite tag, the almighty satellite tag is just around the corner. In fact, it s not just around the corner. I mean, Phil Taylor will say to you that the next satellite tag was just around the corner when he was a graduate student and he s now close to retirement. So, had he sat...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (4): 538–543.
Published: 20 October 2011
... research on the company in order to understand the types of projects they work on, their ethics and their reputation. Is it a company you would feel comfortable working for? Talk to the company directly many larger consulting companies have graduate programs and are more than happy to discuss...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (3): 455–469.
Published: 12 April 2024
... mounted skeleton of a South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus), donated by Melbourne Medical School alumnus Dr George William Armstrong in 1935 (Coultas 2010). Within the collections of the Tiegs Zoology Museum, Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, and Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 585–604.
Published: 01 June 2020
... degree (Honours) F Graduate certificate or Vocational graduate diploma F Graduate diploma or Vocational graduate diploma F Masters degree F Doctoral degree (i.e. PhD) F Other 2020 593 Australian Zoologist volume 40 (4) Fabian et al. A PP EN D IX 1 594 2020 Australian Zoologist volume 40 (4) 5. In which...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 24 (1): 81–83.
Published: 17 March 2014
... transferred from their exhibit area (now the Cape Hunting Dog exhibit) to the off exhibit breeding area completed in 1983. In early 1986, Rebecca Larkin, a newly graduated veterinarian, began an intensive study of cheetah behaviour for a Diploma in Wid Animal Management and Husbandry. Her research has been...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 242–246.
Published: 07 February 2013
... volume 36 (2)2012 243 whole animal biology during their undergraduate and graduate training and reinforcing what also should be being taught at school. However we know this is either not occurring, or only rarely. Similar comments are made by botanists (Adam 2010). If we do not know the major components...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 175–180.
Published: 17 March 2014
... Graduate Cu!rirter r n Vercrinar) Science. Una of Svdnev George, H., 1990. Grey-headed Flying Foxes. Pp. 159-69 in Care and Handling of Australian Native Animals ed by S. J. Hand. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton and Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, New South Wales...