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Davies, Stephen John James Frank (1935 - ) |
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| Naturalist and Ornithologist | |
| Born: 26 April 1935 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
| Stephen John J. F. Davies worked for the Helena Valley Laboratories, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research 1964-84 and as Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Biology, Curtin University of Technology from 1989. During his presidency of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) 1975-78 an Institute of Field Ornithology and successful observatories at Eyre and Rotamah Island were established and a number of sub-groups such as the Raptor group formed; he later became Director of the RAOU 1984-89. |
Career Highlights |
| Born Sydney, 26 April 1935. Educated University of Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD, ScD). CSIRO Wildlife Survey Section, Northern Territory 1956-59, CSIRO Wildlife Survey Section, Western Australia 1959-61; CSIRO Overseas Student Cambridge 1961-64; CSIRO, Division of Wildlife Research, Helena Valley Laboratories, Western Australia 1964-84, officer in charge 1969-83; Director, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union 1984-89; Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Biology, Curtin University of Technology 1989-. Fellow, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1980; Corresponding member, British Ornithologists Union. President, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1975-78, Chairman, Research Committee 1975-84; President, Royal Society of Western Australia 1983-84; President, Western Australian Gould League 1983-84; Trustee, World Wildlife Fund (Australia) 1984-90; Chairman, Wiluna Emu Farm Committee of Management 1986-87; Chairman, Herdsman Lake Management Advisory Committee, Western Australia 1991-; Chairman, Research Committee, Emu Farmers Australia 1995-. |
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