Dr Owen Seeman - Queensland Museum Staff
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About 15 years ago I was moving into senior high school with ambitions of becoming a marine biologist, but some serious bouts of seasickness combined with a visit to the then Department of Entomology at The University of Queensland altered my path forever: I would become an entomologist. In 1992 I completed my BSc at UQ, majoring in entomology, and intended to work on veterinary entomology for my honours degree. It was then that my career took a second change for the better. The then head-of-department Gordon Gordh introduced me to the recently arrived Dave Walter, and I became an acarologist (somebody who studies mites and ticks). With Dave, I completed my honours degree on flower-inhabiting mites that ride between flowers on insects and birds, and then a PhD on the astonishing diversity of mites that associate with passalid beetles. After a four-and-a-half year stint in beautiful Tasmania, my partner and I returned to Queensland in 2003 where I took up a position at the Queensland Museum. My interests are the systematics, evolution and ecology of mites, especially those that are sexually transmitted or live in the most extraordinary places. |
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