ProfessorMike Weston
Professor
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Deakin Centre for Marine Science
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- ProfessorFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Deakin Centre for Marine Science
- +61 3 925 17433 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
TEACHING EXPERTISE
I have formerly been the Course Director of the Bachelor of Environmental Science (Wildlife and Conservation Biology) and now I am the Deputy Course Director for this wonderful course. I am unit chair for SLE309 Wildlife Conservation and Management, and teach into SLE114 Introduction to Parks and Wildlife Conservation and SLE355 Zoological and Wildlife Field Studies. I have also taught into at least eight other units.
I have won numerous teaching awards including three national awards.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- UNIT TAUGHTSLE 302 Wildlife Field Studies
- UNIT TAUGHTSLE 309 Wildlife Conservation and Management
- UNIT TAUGHTI also teach into a range of other units (e.g. SLE114, SLE151, SLE301, SLE307, SLE355).
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFlight, fear and fitness: The adaptive significance of escape responses in birds
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONAnalytical Approaches to Emerging Contaminants Impacting Aquatic Birds
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONEcology of Falkland Steamer ducks
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFactors influencing the distribution of killer whales
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Escape Behaviour of Threatened Australian Mammals Across Predator and Urban Gradients
- CURRENT MASTERS SUPERVISIONUse of lead-free ammunition for the kangaroo industry
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLongitudinal trends, individual quality, and foraging of a temperate seabird
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe value of weeds for wildlife and implications for management
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONBanded Stilt movement and breeding ecology in arid Australia
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONExploring the effects of urbanisation on Eastern Yellow Robins.
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONPhysiological and behavioural factors influencing foraging success in otariid seals
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONForaging strategies and reproductive success in two sympatric seabird species: influence of environmental variability
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONLittle Raven (Corvus mellori) as an Egg Predator of Other Bird Species
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSex-ratio dynamics in three species of resident shorebird
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONBehavioural consistency and foraging specialisations in the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator).
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONTowards adaptive predator management to protect ecotourism of an iconic species
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONForaging ecology of winter-breeding seabirds in New Zealand
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONFunctions of communication across the eggshell in two ground-nesting shorebird species
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONForaging ecology of black-faced cormorants
- COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISIONPrey resources and foraging of an obligate sandy beach shorebird, the Hooded Plover Thinornis cucullatus