James Vandersteen

📣📣📣 Very excited to announce that next year I will be starting a #PhD with @mikeletnic and @HWConflict at @UNSW/@unswbees! We will be investigating the role of the #dingo as an apex predator in the Australian Alps 📣📣📣

More detailed information on possums as scavengers, including from multiple bioregions: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ae… and a summary here, enjoy: theconversation.com/vegetarian-pos…

‘Vegetarian’ possums eat meat when the weather’s cold, writes @Patt_Finnerty + @newsomeTM @Sydney_Uni #Echobox=1727651328" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theconversation.com/vegetarian-pos…

New paper discussing various approaches to marine wildlife surveys from vessels of opportunity! Such a wonderful voyage with many memorable moments. Here, we also provide an open access dataset describing sightings off Tasmania's west coast. nature.com/articles/s4159…

@mikeletnic @HWConflict @dr_cairns

If you want to know more about dingo management in the ACT and why they are important for alpine ecosystems, read below! Research for my PhD will also be featured on the ACT ABC News tonight, so tune in to ABC iview at 7PM if you want to hear more 🐕 🏔️ abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1…

@Field_Ecologist and others talking about ACT dingoes. Yes some have odd coat colours, but this doesn’t change the fact that they are dingoes and a native animal. Policy needs to evolve with changing scientific knowledge. abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1… @UNSWScience @unswbees @mikeletnic

Dingoes in Namadgi!?! #canberra abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1… 🐈‍⬛🐶🐕🐾 @UNSW @Field_Ecologist @dr_cairns @marisa_paterson @RebeccaVassarot @georgievpurcell

A nice write up about scavengers, including a feature on our work in Australia "Everyone scavenges: From pole to equator, nature's recyclers perform a widespread and largely unheralded service" doi.org/10.1093/biosci…

@M_smithii @loveyou_leafyou

"Never Stand Still" thanks for the advice unsw *like to point out I was not driving

This is amazing and very welcome news for Wilkerr (dingoes) in Northwestern Victoria! "Effective from 14 March, the Dingo Unprotection Order will conclude in north west Victoria" premier.vic.gov.au/striking-balan… An excellent decision, @Steve_Dimo & @RosSpenceMP. Thank you!

A dingo chasing his tail, that is all. #WildOz #dingo #australianalps #namadgi

@agvocate_au @RobinSSci It's pretty common in the alpine areas, see below:

@Field_Ecologist @RobinSSci Certainly a good muscle meal. I've never seen a dingo in media with that colour coat. Is it rare?

Dingo in Namadgi National Park with a juicy swamp wallaby tail! #WildOz #dingo #namadgi

Two of Australia's apex predators meet! #dingo #wedgetaileagle #australianalps #wildoz

Just back from Namadji National Park with @Field_Ecologist who is looking at the effects of dingoes on alpine ecosystems. We saw plenty of dingoes including one with a great big rip in its side.

Incredible to watch tens of thousands of Grey-headed Flying-fox megabats (Pteropus poliocephalus 🦇) leave their roost at sunset to forage for nectar overnight - so many that they're accidentally mapped as rain on the @BOM_au weather radar! 🤯 #wildoz

The bear cams were still on to capture this wolf in his finest moment.

The scale of the fires currently burning across northern Australia is pretty unfathomable. This animation visualises just the last two months of fire captured by #DEAHotspots - for context, the map covers an area larger than France, Spain and Germany combined...

When your best friends are also ecologists doing crazy things!!!

New paper out today exploring the marine habitat use of Snow Petrels tracked from East Antarctica! Funnily enough, I’m currently on my way to Mawson station for a summer (6 months) to build upon this work with @AusAntarctic @IMASUTAS Link to paper: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…