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Nicki Mitchell grew up in Hobart and completed her BSc Honours in Zoology at the University of Tasmania in 1996, followed by a PhD in Environmental Physiology at the University of Adelaide in 2001. After working as a research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, funded by the Royal Society in London, she spent time at Colorado State University, Australian National University, and La Trobe University before moving to the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2005 on an ARC postdoctoral fellowship. She has been working at UWA since 2009 as a teaching and research academic. Her research is interdisciplinary with a grounding in physiological ecology and a strong focus on conservation and climate change. She primarily studies threatened vertebrates to understand their capacity to persist amid rapid environmental changes. Her research interests include development of modeling approaches and decision tools that inform conservation initiatives, along with long-term projects focused on assisted colonization, sex determination and survival of reptiles, and the biology and conservation of terrestrial-breeding frog species. In addition, she co-leads a significant project aimed at protecting peatland ecosystems in southwestern Australia. Nicki is dedicated to mentoring graduate students and postdocs with various interests, promoting research in diverse fields such as freshwater turtles, sea turtles, and marsupials.
Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Involved in research and teaching related to environmental and conservation biology.
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