Meet Noel Preece
Noel holds a BSc from Macquarie University, a Master of Science from University of Queensland and Northern Territory Uni in Zoology, and a PhD from Charles Darwin University in Ecology.
He is a Councillor on the Australian Ecosystem Science Council, and a Director of the Ecological Society of Australia.
He is a Member of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand, a Certified Environmental Practitioner, a member of the Society for Ecological Restoration, a Lead Environmental Auditor, an Adjunct Principal Research Fellow with James Cook University and University Fellow with CDU.
Noel has written and co-authored over 200 papers, reports and analyses, and several books, including the first Fire Management Manual for Central Australia.
Noel's on-going interests include the contributions of diseases to the declines and extinctions of Australian mammals and other fauna, modelling early growth of plantations, regional development and the sustainability of northern Australian enterprises and development, the biogeography of northern and central Australia, and the long-term future of biodiversity.