Karl Vernes
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Environmental and Rural Sciences
Contact
| Email: | kvernes@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W55 216 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3255 (or +61 2 6773 3255 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2769 |
After finishing my undergraduate degree in Zoology and Marine Biology at James Cook University, I pursued an M.Sc. in Zoology from James Cook University, completing it in 1994. In 1995 I worked as a consultant biologist for the Kinhill Group in Brisbane before returning to James Cook University to undertake a Ph.D. in Zoology and Tropical Ecology. I spent 1997 in Canada writing my Ph.D. at The University of British Columbia, returning to Australia in 1998 to work for the Rainforest CRC on feral pig management in lowland swamp forests. In 1999 I began a 3.5 year tenure as the McCain Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biology Department at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada. At Mount Allison I also taught courses in Mammalogy and Conservation Biology and supervised undergraduate research students. In the latter half of 2002 I returned again to Australia to lecture in the School of Tropical Ecology at James Cook University (Cairns). In January of 2003 I joined the Discipline of Ecosystem Management at UNE as Lecturer in Vertebrate Ecology, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 2005.
Areas of Teaching
- RSNR110: Sustaining Our Rural Environments
- ECOL203/403: Ecology - Populations to Ecosystems
- ZOOL203: Vertebrate Zoology - Evolution and Diversity
- EM323/523: Wildlife Ecology and Management
- EM353/553: Conservation Biology
Qualifications
- B.Sc. in Zoology and Marine Biology (James Cook University, 1989)
- M.Sc. in Zoology (James Cook University, 1995)
- Ph.D. in Zoology and Tropical Ecology (James Cook University, 2000)
Publications
Submitted Manuscripts
Pope, L.C., Vernes, K., Goldizen, A.W., Johnson, C. N. Gene flow is limited through both mating system and dispersal in a restricted small mammal, Bettongia tropica. [Submitted].
Steeves, B.J., Vernes, K. and Stewart, J.M. Increase in relative mass of salivary glands of northern short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) during approach to winter. [Submitted].
Papers