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Biography
With a strong background in ecology of vertebrate pests in agricultural systems, Dr Peter Brown is working to strengthen natural resource management decisions in Australia and south-east Asia through participatory engagement with rural communities. Dr Brown joined CSIRO in 1993 as a technical officer servicing field projects to manage mouse plagues in Australia. Since then he has led research projects working with farmers to develop ecologically based rodent management strategies in Australia and expanding into south-east Asia (particularly Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and Laos). Key elements were linking biological and ecological knowledge into decision frameworks, understanding damage thresholds and capacity building of local staff. In 2006 Dr Brown diversified his interests into examining the potential impact of climate change on Australia's biodiversity. He then went on to explore various aspects of adaptive capacity of Australia's rural households and develop engagement strategies for rural communities to examine their own adaptive capacity, economic sustainability and social well-being. More recently, he has focussed on working with farmers in Australia and Southeast Asia in looking at what might constrain or enable farmers to improve natural resource management decisions and outcomes and to better manage for climate change in the future. Common across all his work, has been working as an ecologist to engage with rural communities to examine issues in agricultural systems and working closely with economists and sociologists. Researcher ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-2690-2010
Professional Areas
Current Roles
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Team Leader
Rodent Management Team -
Project Leader, various mouse management projects funded by GRDC
Mouse surveillance and modelling, mouse ecology, improve effectiveness of rodenticides for improved management of mice in agricultural systems
Academic Qualifications
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2005
PhD behavioural and population ecology of small mammals
UNSW -
1993
MAppSc resourse management
UC -
1988
BAppSc ecology and natural resources
CCAE
Achievements and Awards
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2021-2021
Trusted Advisor Award for outstanding communications during the mouse plague to enable CSIRO to be seen as the "go-to" source of information about mouse plagues
CSIRO H&B -
2020-2020
Excellence in Animal Research Ethics Award to Rodent Management Team
CSIRO Animal Ethics Committee -
2020-2020
Reward to Rodent Management Team for reinventing field work in the times of COVID-19
CSIRO -
2009-2009
Award for work on the implications of climate change for Australia's National Reserve System
CSIRO -
2009-2009
Team Award for excellence in converting rigerous science to agricultural and NRM policy advice for State and Federal Governments
CSIRO -
2002-2002
Award for Excellence in Partnership
CSIRO -
1999-1999
Chief's Award for Scientific Achievement by a young scientist (Individual)
CSIRO -
1997-1997
Chief's Award for Scientific Achievement and Impact (Team Award)
CSIRO
Other highlights
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2012-Present
Member of the National Mouse Management Working Group / National Mouse Group
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2003-Present
Conference Organising Committee, International Conference on Rodent Biology and Management (ICRBM)
Publications
We have publications by Dr Peter Brown