Dr Stephen Van Dyck - Queensland Museum Staff
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BSc, MSc, PhD |
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Research interests have centred on taxonomic studies of carnivorous marsupials in Australia and Papua New Guinea (the basis of his post-graduate theses), and the documentation of the status, distribution and ecology of various rare and threatened Queensland taxa, more detailed attention having been given to the following species: the Atherton Antechinus (Antechinus godmani), Cinnamon Antechinus (A. leo), White-footed Dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus), Kakadu Dunnart (S. bindi), Mahogany Glider (Petaurus gracilis), Eastern Pebble-mound Mouse (Pseudomys patrius), New Holland Mouse (P. novaehollandiae), Burrowing Bettong (Bettongia lesueur) and False Water-rat (Xeromys myoides). Steve was a quarterly contributor to the popular natural history magazine 'Nature Australia' from 1991 until its demise in 2006. He is currently undertaking a revised edition of the popular book Mammals of Australia by Ron Strahan. He is a committed whale-undertaker, who, with his colleague Heather Janetzki, embraces the decaying whale with a passion that borders on the certifiable. At home he juggles a caring wife, 2 teenage children, a bassoon, and an aviary of African weavers with his life-long interest in classical music, alcohol and curries. |
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