Dr. Roxane Francis

Hi all! Looking for submissions for our Special Edition "Drone Advances in Wildlife Research: 2nd Edition" with @Drones_MDPI . Reach out if interested 😎

Neat article on our recent work counting flamingos on the Makgadikgadi Pans Botswana using automated techniques 🥰 au.news.yahoo.com/remarkable-aus…

New paper with lots of insights to the many hours spent monitoring waterbird colonies using a drone! Are ground counts and drone counts truly comparable???? 🦆 mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/4/… @CES_UNSW @UNSWScience @unswbees

Turtles turtling ! 🐢 "Protecting and restoring freshwater ecosystems, including maintaining freshwater refugia, is essential to conserve already declining populations of three Australian freshwater turtle species". @UNSWScience @unswbees @CES_UNSW dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.40…

Submissions now open for the second edition of Drone Advances in Wildlife Research. Message if you have a potential paper in the making. 🌿🪿

After a very successful first edition, Dr. Kate Brandis and myself will once again be guest editors on MDPI Drones "Drone Advances in Wildlife Research: 2nd Edition". Reach out if interested 🎉 mdpi.com/journal/drones… @RemoteSens_MDPI @UNSW @UNSWScience @unswbees @CES_UNSW

Another successful waterbird breeding season - with over 24 active nesting locations monitored. Check out this nice little summary - with some nice pics too 😉 @theCEWH @UNSWScience @unswbees @CES_UNSW flow-mer.org.au/waterbird-bree…

5/5 The Waterbirds Aerial Survey Team led by Prof. Richard Kingsford has been conducting one of the largest and longest-running wildlife surveys in the world. The team are finalists for the NSW Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Applied Environmental Research.

Our Senior Research Fellow Dr Kate Brandis (2nd from left) and PostDoc researcher Roxane Francis (centre) had the pleasure of meeting @CEWH Dr Simon Banks (2nd from right) and showcasing our #waterbird monitoring on the ground at #NarranLakes last week @unswbees @UNSWScience

It was so great to visit the beautiful Narran Lakes (Dharriwaa) last week and observe the flourishing bird life! 🌱🐣 To help maintain #Waterbird breeding conditions, water is currently flowing through the internationally important wetlands. 🔗bit.ly/41NGKKj

Probably my most useful publication. Need to check the drone has done what it was supposed to? Heres how you can do it - before its too late! ⏰ mdpi.com/2504-446X/6/12…

Hi all, as a guest editor for the special edition of MDPI #drones 'Advances of Drones in #Wildlife Research' it would be great to hear from people working in this space and looking to publish. Send me a message!

Waterbirds, Waders and Widgets - in the Barmah-Millewa Forest 🎉 #moviestar #lovemyjob youtube.com/watch?v=euwv2_…

New publication on freshwater turtle health and environmental flows based on my first piece of research in my honours year! What a journey 🥰 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/C…

Ecologist Prof. Richard Kingsford from @CES_UNSW @unswbees will lead the monitoring of the health of the Royal National Park as part of a NSW Gov’t ‘scorecard’ program, to “track how the things we care about are doing”. smh.com.au/environment/co…

@CharlotteSimyo @zoexiro BOOM

@zoexiro Onions can pull themselves deeper underground as soil erodes away. There is a species of daisy that is thought to be the only example of sexual deciet outside orchid family. Peanut flowers droop and grow their fruit under the ground. Cashews aren't the seed. Vanilla is an orchid.

Anyone have any crazy plant facts I can include in a trivia night? The weirder the better!

New paper out! Tracking long term declines in waterbird abundance in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Probs one of the coolest places on earth doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc…

@TempeAdams @MarleeTucker @DrStephBrodie @DrMollyScott @DrLucyKing @Vic_Inman Woo! Sorry I missed this Tempe- my Twitter skills are... below par. Lol

Let’s amplify women scientist and keep it going forever!!! There are so many incredible inspirations! #womeninscience @MarleeTucker @DrStephBrodie @DrMollyScott @DrLucyKing @Vic_Inman @_Maxxed_Out_ Just to name a mere few!

@Ashwellbglasson Thanks Ashwell. What a bird, am I right!? 🐦

@WalksWithRhinos Definately room for improvement! Ultimate goal right.

My third piece of work published from my PhD on the marabou stork. Its my fav so have a read :D academic.oup.com/jue/article/do…