Dr Nick Dunlop

Adjunct Senior Lecture

Environmental Science & Policy Coordinator
Conservation Council (WA)

Phone: 9420 7266
Email: nic.dunlop@conservationwa.asn.au

Qualifications: BSc (Hons), PhD (Murdoch)

Biography: Nic Dunlop is a terrestrial and marine ecologist with special interests in seabird population dynamics, seabirds as indicators of marine ecosystems and island, bat, climate change and landscape ecology. He maintains two multi-decadel projects tracking the population dynamics of tropical terns and has conducted shorter investigations on a variety of other seabirds including other terns, Wedge-tailed & Fleshy-footed Shearwaters, Red-tailed Tropicbirds (Christmas Island) and Little Penguins. He is the eastern sector coordinator for the Indian Ocean Seabird Group.

As the Environmental Policy and Science Coordinator with the Conservation Council of WA he runs the ‘Citizen Science for Ecological Monitoring Program’. This includes coordinating monitoring and research projects at the Charles Darwin (terrestrial) Climate Change Observatory and the Lancelin Island (marine) Climate Change Observatory.