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Fuller Lab

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Address: The University of Queensland, St lucia 4067 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.fullerlab.org

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25.01.2022 Navigating coasts of concrete - new paper led by Micha Jackson shows that shorebirds are using artificial habitats throughout the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. We need to manage those effectively, alongside protecting remaining natural habitats. https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S0006320719312996

24.01.2022 Three days chatting chatting about shorebirds! What could be better???

21.01.2022 Careful consideration by Brisbane City Council has resulted in two of the three trial dog off-leash areas remaining open (Sandgate and Manly), and one being closed (Nudgee). This is unfortunate for the many people doing the right thing at Nudgee. Yet UQ monitoring work showed conclusively that the level of non-compliance was too high at Nudgee, with too many people continuing to take their off-leash dogs out of the designated area into very sensitive and valuable marine park habitat to the north. Sadly, a case of the few spoiling it for the many.

21.01.2022 Shorebird PhD at University of Newcastle

21.01.2022 Shorebird conference 3-5 November

18.01.2022 We’re super proud of Shawan Chowdhury who has just had his first PhD paper published - well done Shawan! Tawny Coster, native to the Indian subcontinent, has colonized into SE Asia in the last couple of decades, entered Australia in 2012, and is continuously expanding its range. Here, we compare i) climatic niche in the different range of the distribution and ii) estimate the expansion of geographic range in Australia. Three key findings:... 1. Tawny coster continues to occupy a stable climatic niche 2. The annual range expansion rate is 135 km/year in Australia 3. For the first time in butterflies (to our knowledge), we document the sex-biased migration. See more

17.01.2022 Work by Josh Wilson to measure impact to shorebirds from drones is underway - he’s also planning to design an automated method for counting shorebirds using a UAV at low tide. Great work Josh!

12.01.2022 Professor Richard Fuller is running three free Zoom sessions on scientific writing. It is open to all, but aimed at honours and masters students, postgrads and postdocs; loosely based on the session he gave at the Student Conference for Conservation Science a couple of years ago. It won’t be flashy or particularly well organised, but on the plus side there won’t be any practical exercises either! This is one sequence of content that extends over the three sessions. You’ll pro...bably get some benefit from joining any single session, but best to join all three if possible. Join us at 12-1pm (Brisbane time) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week (22nd, 24th, 26th June). We’ll schedule further sessions if people are keen. Zoom link is https://uqz.zoom.us/j/6397054818 UPDATE Session 1 recording is at https://youtu.be/98XMNPOPJEw Session 2 recording is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYnkMdarYEA Session 3 recording is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFB0jGbrjVs

10.01.2022 Huge thanks to the 200 folks that turned up for the first three scientific writing sessions, we had a great time! The videos of those sessions are online at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNFzgUofR0hvn2sZq1tPwJw There was still a big list of questions people wanted to cover, and Rich has more material to go through on the publication process itself, responding to reviewers etc. We have scheduled three more sessions, at 12pm noon Brisbane time on 20th, 22nd and 24th July 202...0. At the zoom address https://uqz.zoom.us/j/6397054818. They will be recorded and put on the YouTube channel, but it’s nice when people join live. Each session will cover different material. No need to prepare anything, and there are no practical exercises, you won’t be forced to speak etc. Simply join in and listen, and type / ask the occasional question if you have one. Aimed at honours, masters, PhD students, postdocs but open to anyone, anywhere. Feel free to share widely.

07.01.2022 Major impact on migratory shorebirds averted! The Australian Government has decided to refuse a proposed development at Turtle Cove in Queensland adjacent to one of the most important sites for migratory shorebirds in Australia. The major development precinct was planned on a parcel of land adjacent to a large claypan roost site that regularly supports over 1% of the global population of Endangered Far Eastern Curlew, and at times has supported over 1000 individuals of the species (>3% of the world population). There is only a handful of roost sites in THE WORLD that support these sorts of numbers of curlew. You can read the full details of the story behind the refusal by searching for Turtle Cove at http://epbcnotices.environment.gov.au/publicnoticesreferrals

06.01.2022 Volunteer shorebirding opportunity in Bangladesh with the brilliant Sayam Chowdhury over the coming few years

04.01.2022 The first East Asian-Australasian Shorebird Science Meeting will be held online on 3-5 November! Even better, it's totally free to register!!! More than 200 people from 25 countries have already signed up. We have a line-up of brilliant talks and sessions. Secure your spot at http://www.eaafssm.com/

03.01.2022 Congratulations to Jessica Pinder on a great paper just out, showing that conservation concern is primarily a socio-cultural phenomenon, and even people who don't physically spend much time in nature can care deeply about conservation and environmental issues.

02.01.2022 We're very proud of the wonderful Eduardo Gallo, here giving a talk on his recently submitted PhD on the governance and politics of migratory species conservation.

02.01.2022 Video update from Rich's backyard - answering questions posed on the Threatened Species Commissioner's Facebook page