Andrew Cockburn (ornithologist)
Emeritus Professor Andrew Cockburn | |
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| Born | 13 September 1954 (age 70) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
| Known for | Evolution of bird mating and parental care systems. Evolution of mammal and bird life histories. |
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| Fields | Zoology, evolutionary ecology, animal behaviour |
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| Doctoral advisor | Anthony K. Lee |
| Notable students | Raoul Mulder, Penny Olsen |
Andrew Cockburn FAA is an Australian evolutionary biologist who has been based at the Australian National University in Canberra since 1983. He has worked and published extensively on the breeding behaviour of antechinuses and superb fairy-wrens, and more generally on the biology of marsupials and cooperative breeding in birds. His work on fairy-wrens is based around a detailed long-term study of their curious mating and social system at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
In 2001, Cockburn was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)[3] and awarded the Centenary Medal.[4] He was awarded the Academy's Gottschalk Medal in 1988 and the Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1987. In 2004, Cockburn was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union's D.L. Serventy Medal, which recognises excellence in published work on birds in the Australasian region.[5] In 2010, he was awarded the Ellis Troughton Medal and Fellowship of the Australian Mammal Society for his research on Australian mammals. In 2012, he gave the Tinbergen Lecture of the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Since 2014, he has been Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Natural History in the Research School of Biology at the Australian National University.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ Andrew Cockburn (1975) The ecology of the genus pseudomys in Victorian heath communities Honours thesis, Monash University.
- ^ Andrew Cockburn (1979) The ecology of Pseudomys spp. in south-eastern Australia. PhD thesis, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.
- ^ Professor Andrew Cockburn, Fellows elected in 2001, www.science.org.au
- ^ Centenary Medal, 1 January 2001, It's an Honour. "For service to Australian society and science in botany and zoology".
- ^ Penny Olsen (2004). D.L. Serventy Medal 2004: Citation. Andrew Cockburn. Emu 104: 297-298.
- ^ Emeritus Professor Andrew Cockburn, anu.edu.au
- ^ Andrew Cockburn biography, anu.edu.au
Further reading
[edit]- The evolution of virulence and the birth of Darwinian medicine, Frank Fenner's science today and tomorrow, 4 October 2011, Australian Academy of Science
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