Opportunities
Undergraduate projects
Eastern quoll behaviour
Program: Bachelors, honours, masters | Delivery: Desk
Reintroduction success can be affected by many factors, including animal personality. We conducted behavioural assays on eastern quolls before releasing them to Mulligans Flat in 2017 and filmed their responses to different stimuli. By scoring their behaviours, can we relate this to translocation success?
Pookila (New Holland mouse) translocation tactics
Program: Bachelors, honours, masters | Delivery: Field and desk
How can we best monitor the post-release survival and movement of tiny native rodents that are the size of your thumb? This project can focus on several facets of this pookila translocation depending on the length of the program, including post-release health, monitoring methods, movement between release infrastructure, and more.
Bush stone-curlew population demography and viability
Program: Honours or Masters | Delivery: Field and desk
To determine the long-term viability of the bush stone-curlew’s reintroduction to Mulligans Flat, we need to understand their demographic trends. This project will provide recommendations for future management.
Eastern quoll traits
Program: Bachelors, honours, masters | Delivery: Desk, opportunity for field
Since their reintroduction in 2016, the Mulligans Flat eastern quolls have been regularly monitored for their health (e.g., weight, condition) and traits (e.g., sex, morph, foot length, head length). This project will ask: do these traits relate to their performance, persistence, habitat use, or fitness?
Postgraduate projects
Phillip Island bush stone-curlew reintroduction
Program: PhD | Delivery: Alternating field and desk seasons
Do you have a strong interest in conservation and translocation science? Would you like to obtain skills in GPS telemetry and wildlife research?
We are seeking a dedicated, passionate, and high-quality PhD candidate to work with a team of ecologists that are delivering a major project to translocate bush-stone curlews to Phillip Island and beyond. If you are interested, send us an expression of interest through NRM Jobs.
Volunteering
Mulligans Flat–Goorooyarroo surveys
Are you a keen naturalist in the Canberra region? We are always looking for skilled birders and herpers to help with our annual reptile surveys (March), bush stone-curlew census (September), woodland bird surveys (October). In some cases, these opportunities may be paid.
Woodlands and Wetlands Trust
The Trust has a range of volunteer opportunities at Mulligans Flat, Wildbark, and Jerrabomberra Wetlands.
Opportunities are often seasonal and require varying levels and types of skill, experience, availability, and fitness. You can register your interest in their Better Impact volunteer database.
