Dr Robert Raven - Queensland Museum Staff
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Raven was awarded a CSIRO Post-doctoral Fellow which he undertook at both the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and at CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra. Raven is a spider systemist specialising in trapdoor, funnelweb & tarantula spiders (Mygalomorphae), and ground hunting araneomorph spiders (excluding Lycosidae and Ganphosoidea). His research has been supported by an ARC grant in 1987 (which specifically resulted in the publication of over 15 papers) and has received ABRS funding since 1996. He has provided identifications for various ecological surveys (e.g. World Heritage Area, Tasmania 1987; Wet Tropics bid for World Heritage status) and in the past 3 years he has co-supervised 2 PhD students (one of which worked on Argyrodes) and one Honours student. Robert was Chairman of the XIIth International Congress of Arachnology (Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1992) and technical editor of the proceedings (1993). Raven cohosted the first International Conference of Invertebrate Biodiversity & Conservation (Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1993) and co-edited the proceedings (1994). Robert also was responsible for designing and implementing the Natural History register computer databases in the Queensland Museum, and is an active computer and internet user. In 1998, Robert was elected President of the International Arachnological Society (formerly Centre Internationale de Documentation Arachnologique). |
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