Associate ProfessorDesley Whisson
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
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- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
- +61 3 925 17302 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
TEACHING EXPERTISE
SLE332 Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Scientists.
I am Coordinator of the Life and Environmental Sciences Honours Program.
I am Coordinator of the Life and Environmental Sciences Honours Program.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- UNIT TAUGHTSLE332 Geographic Information Systems (Chair)
- UNIT TAUGHTSLE310 Pest Plants and Animals (Chair)
- UNIT TAUGHTSLE353 Asian Conservation and Environment Sustainability (Lecturer)
- UG, HONOURS OR MASTERS DEGREE SUPERVISIONHonours Supervsion: 'Do species credits mean the same thing everywhere under climate change?'1 Feb 2026 - 30 Nov 2026
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEnvironmental Influences on the Breeding Biology of Australian Fur Seals
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONImpacts of Feral Horses on Small Mammals in Sub-Alpine Australia
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONConservation of the Yellow-bellied Glider (Petaurus australis) in Victoria
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONArboreal Species and Plantation Forestry: Conserving Koalas in a Modified Landscape
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFactors Influencing Trophic Niche and Foraging Success in Australian Fur Seals
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDrones and machine learning for koala and kangaroo habitat assessment
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLong-nosed potoroo ecology in a changing landscape of predation
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFactors influencing habitat-use in Australian fur seals
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSpatial ecology and seasonal activity of sub-alpine Leadbeater's Possum
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDeveloping methods to manage aninvasive snake to enable extinct in the wild lizard reintroductions
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEvaluating the response of insectivorous bats to nighttime recreational events
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONClimate-driven habitat selection and the distribution of arboreal mammals in southern Australia
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCan a cool-climate specialist rodent persist in a fragmented warming landscape?
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONUse of lead-free ammunition for the kangaroo industry
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDrivers and Fitness Consequences of Individual and Sexual Foraging Specialisation in Fur Seals
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFactors influencing foraging behaviour in the Australasian gannet
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLittle Raven (Corvus mellori) as an Egg Predator of Other Bird Species
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFine-scale foraging movements and energetics in penguins
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDistribution and spatial dynamics of koalas in a plantation landscape
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe ecology and niche segregation of diving petrels
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONBehavioural ecology of fishermen and odontocetes in a depredation context