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Personal Information

• Nationality: Australian & Canadian
• Gender: Male

Current Position

• Director, Ecological Modelling (Professor): The Environment Institute and School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia and South Australian Research & Development Institute, PO Box 120, Henley Beach, SA 5022, Australia (Jan 2010 – )

Appointments

• Adjunct Associate Professor: March 2008 – present, School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University , Darwin, Australia
• Honorary Associate: May 2006 – Dec 2008, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Education

• Postgraduate Certificate (Veterinary Conservation Medicine): Feb 2004 – Jun 2005, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
• Ph.D. Zoology, 1995 – 1999, University of Otago, Department of Zoology, Dunedin, New Zealand
• M.Sc. Zoology, 1992 – 1994, University of Alberta, Department of Zoology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• B.Sc. Orientation in Ecology: 1989 – 1992, Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences biologiques, Montréal, Québec, Canada
• International Baccalaureate (Bilingual Diploma): 1987 – 1989, Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Publications

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10 Career-Best Publications:

1. BRADSHAW, CJA, IG WARKENTIN, NS SODHI. 2009. Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 541-548
2. BRADSHAW, CJA, NS SODHI, BW BROOK. 2009. Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 79-87
   
3. BRADSHAW, CJA, X Giam, HTW Tan, BW Brook, NS Sodhi. 2008. Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life history attributes. Journal of Ecology 96: 869-883
4. BROOK, BW, NS SODHI, CJA BRADSHAW. 2008. Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 453-460 (ISI ‘Hot’ highly cited paper)
   
5. SIMS, DW, EJ SOUTHALL, NJ HUMPHRIES, GC HAYS, CJA BRADSHAW, et al. 2008. Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour in complex prey landscapes. Nature 451: 1098-1102 (ISI highly cited paper)
   
6. SODHI, NS, BW BROOK, CJA BRADSHAW. 2007. Tropical Conservation Biology. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom
7. BRADSHAW, CJA, SODHI, NS, KSH PEH, BW BROOK. 2007. Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world. Global Change Biology 13: 2379-2395
8. BRADSHAW, CJA, HF MOLLET, MG MEEKAN. 2007. Inferring population trends for the world’s largest fish from mark-recapture estimates of survival. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 480-489
9. BROOK, BW, CJA BRADSHAW. 2006. Strength of evidence for density dependence in abundance time series of 1198 species. Ecology 87: 1445-1451
10. BRADSHAW, CJA, MA HINDELL, NJ BEST, KL PHILLIPS, G. WILSON, PD NICHOLS. 2003. You are what you eat: describing the foraging ecology of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) using blubber fatty acids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 270: 1283-1292

Citation Statistics

• Total citations to 21/04/2010: 1365 (ISI); 340 (non-ISI) = 1705
• Current h-index = 24 (including non-ISI citations); 21 (ISI citations only) (see ISI® Web of Knowledge ResearcherID publication statistics )
• Current m-index (h-index ÷ years since PhD) = 2.4 and 2.1, respectively

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia (Mar 2008 – Dec 2009)
  
• Principal Research Fellow, School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (Jul 2007 – Feb 2008 )
• Senior Research Fellow, School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (Jan 2005 – Jun 2007 )
• Australian Academy of Science Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sustainability, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom (Jan – Mar 2006 )
• Senior Research Fellow, Key Centre for Tropical Wildlife Management, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (Apr 2004 – Dec 2004 )
• ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit, School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Jul 1999 – Apr 2004 )

Awards, Grants, Fellowships

• Super Science Fellowships, Australian Research Council, 2011-2014, AU$530K
• 2010 Australian Ecology Research Award, Ecological Society of Australia
  
• 2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year (Life Science and Biological Science Category), Universities Australia/Elsevier/Scopus
• South Australian Premier’s Science and Research Fund, TRansect for ENvironmental monitoring and Decision making (TREND): adaptive management of productive and native systems for climate change 2010-2012, AU$1.35M
• Australian Academy of Science International Science Linkages-Science Academies fellowship to China 2010
• HG Andrewartha Medal, Royal Society of South Australia 2009
• Young Tall Poppy Science Award recipient, Australian Institute of Policy & Science 2008
• Linkage Project Grant, Australian Research Council, 2009-2013, AU$425K
• ARC-NZ Research Network for Vegetation Function, 2009, ~AU$25K
• ZoNéCo Fisheries Grant, Zone Économique de la Nouvelle Calédonie, 2008-2009, AU$100K
• Discovery Project Grant, Australian Research Council, 2008-2010, AU$315K
• CDU Project Grant, Charles Darwin University (CI Field), 2007-2008, AU$8K
• CDU Project Grant, Charles Darwin University (CI Lehmann), 2007-2008, AU$8K
• Australian Antarctic Science Grant, Australian Antarctic Division, 2008, AU$14K
• Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation Grant (Australia), 2008, AU$35K
• Department of Environment and Water Resources Grant (Australia), 2008, AU$45K
• Department of Environment and Water Resources Grant (Australia), 2008, AU$55K
• Department of Environment and Water Resources Grant (Australia), 2008, AU$28K
• Linkage Project Grant, Australian Research Council, 2006-2009, AU$265K
• Marine Species Recovery and Protection Program Grant, Natural Heritage Trust of Australia, Department of Environment and Heritage, 2008, AU$55K
• Linkage Project Grant, Australian Research Council, 2006-2008, AU$638K
• Linkage Project Grant, Australian Research Council, 2006-2008, AU$221K
• Scientific Visiting Fellow (UK), Australian Academy of Science, 2004, AU$11K
• Agile Wallaby Management Tender, Darwin City Council, 2005, AU$29K
• Research Excellence Grant, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of Tasmania, 2003, AU$5K
• Discovery Project Grant, Australian Research Council (ARC), 1-year research funding, AU$45K
• Large Grant, Australian Research Council (ARC), 3-year research funding, AU$117K
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian Research Council, for tenure at University of Tasmania, $165K
• Research Grant, Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc., Queensland, 2000, AU$55K
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (for tenure at University of Tasmania), 2000, AU$40K

Appointments, Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia
• Senior Editor, Conservation Letters (2007 – )
• In Focus Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology, British Ecological Society (2007 – )
• Associate Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology, British Ecological Society (2005 – 2008 )
• Theme Member, Biodiversity & Resources, Adaptation Research Network, NCCARF Marine Biodiversity and Resources
• Member Thematic Reference Group (TRG) on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases, UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)
• Member of British Ecological Society (2006 – )
• Member of Australian Marine Science Association (2002 – )
• Member of Ecological Society of America (2006 – )
• Member of IUCN Species Survival Commission Crocodile Specialist Group (2006 – )
• Member of the Society for Conservation Biology (2006 – )

Other Skills, Qualifications

• Scientific referee for > 50 scientific journals.
• Reviewer for Natural Environment Research Council (UK), Marsden Fund (NZ), Australian Research Council, National Science Foundation (USA)

Languages

• Fluency in spoken & written English and French
• Intermediate spoken & written Spanish