Doctor Jessica Meade
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Jessica’s background is in animal behaviour and behavioural ecology. Her PhD at the University of Oxford (UK) under the supervision of Professor Tim Guilford involved the use of miniaturized GPS trackers to investigate short distance navigation in homing pigeons. Following her PhD she spent several field seasons working on Skomer Island with Prof. Guilford tracking Manx shearwaters, and with Professor Tim Birkhead working on the population dynamics of common guillemots. She went on to do a Post-Doc with Professor Ben Hatchwell at the University of Sheffield (UK) investigating parental and alloparental care in the cooperatively breeding long-tailed tit. In 2012 she moved to Australia to work with A/Professor Tracey Rogers at UNSW on satellite tracked leopard seals. After this she worked part-time as the assistant behavioural biologist at Taronga Conservation Society Australia, and part-time at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) modelling the effect of extreme events on vertebrates in the Australian Wet Tropics, before moving to the HIE full time in February 2017. Jessica now works part-time (3 days a week) on projects relating to the movement ecology of flying-foxes.
Areas of research/ Teaching expertise
Jessica is an animal ecologist with a particular interest in animal behaviour, navigation and spatial ecology. Her previous research has been varied and falls into three main categories. Navigation, involving a combination of high resolution tracking and experimental manipulation to investigate the sensory basis of navigation. Spatial ecology, identifying natural patterns of movement including foraging and migration. Cooperative breeding, examining parental investment and helping behaviour.
Bushfire Research
Our research also includes the role of fire and its effects on global change. Please, see here (opens in a new window) for further details on our bushfire research.
Grants / Current Projects
Improving conservation management outcomes for the Grey-headed Flying-fox - heat stress mitigation
Co-Researchers: Justin Welbergen, Christopher Turbill
Partner/Funding Body: Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources
Period: 2021-2023
Improving conservation management outcomes for the Grey-headed Flying-fox - Population monitoring
Co-Researchers: Justin Welbergen
Partner/Funding Body: Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources
Period: 2021-2023
Improving conservation management outcomes for the Grey-headed Flying-fox - Foraging resource mapping
Co-Researchers: Justin Welbergen, Matthias Boer, James Cook
Partner/Funding Body: Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources
Period: 2021-2023
Assessing grey-headed flying fox roosting and foraging resource utilisation post 2019-2020 megafires
Co-Researchers: Justin Welbergen and John Martin
Partner/Funding Body: Taronga Conservation Society Australia
Period: 2021-2023
Movement ecology of flying-foxes: integrating mechanisms and patterns across multiple spatiotemporal scales
Co-Researchers: Justin Welbergen, Christopher Turbill and David Westcott
Partner/Funding Body: Australian Research Council Discovery
Period: 2017-2023
People
- Professor Matthias Boer
- Associate Professor Yolima Carrillo
- Associate Professor Chris Cazzonelli
- Professor Brendan Choat
- Professor James Cook (Theme Leader - Plants Animals and Interactions)
- Doctor Eleonora Egidi
- Professor David Ellsworth
- Doctor Manuel Esperon
- Doctor Adam Frew
- Associate Professor Rachael Gallagher
- Professor Oula Ghannoum
- Doctor Christopher Gordon
- Professor Scott Johnson
- Associate Professor Catriona Macdonald
- Doctor James Makinson
- Doctor Jessica Meade
- Distinguished Professor Belinda Medlyn (Theme Leader - Ecosystem Function and Integration)
- Associate Professor Ben Moore
- Professor Uffe Nielsen (Theme Leader - Soil Biology and Genomics)
- Associate Professor Rachael Nolan
- Associate Professor Alexie Papanicolaou
- Professor Elise Pendall
- Associate Professor Jonathan Plett
- Professor Jeff Powell
- Professor Sally Power
- Doctor Renée Marchin Prokopavicius
- Professor Markus Riegler
- Associate Professor Paul Rymer
- Doctor Demi Sargent
- Associate Professor Robert Sharwood
- Distinguished Professor Brajesh Singh
- Professor Ben Smith (Director of Research)
- Distinguished Professor David Tissue
- Professor Mark Tjoelker (Interim Director)
- Doctor Bin Wang
- Doctor Jun-Tao Wang
- Professor Justin Welbergen
- Distinguished Professor Ian Wright (Chief Scientist)
Honorary and Adjunct Appointments
