Person

Joseph, Leo George (1958 - )

Born
22 October 1958
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Ornithologist

Summary

Leo Joseph is an ornithologist whose research interests focus on the evolution and phylogenomics of Australian and neotropical birds, particularly parrots. After working in Uruguay and travelling in South America between 1994 and 1997 he joined the Department of Ornithology at the Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia, where much of John Gould's collection of Australian birds is housed. Joseph returned to Australia in 2005 to become Director of the Australian National Wildlife Collection. In 2009 his book, Boom and bust, edited with Libby Robin and Rob Heinsohn, was awarded the Whitley Prize for the Best Australian Natural History Book.

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Chronology

1980 - 1988
Career position - Editor, South Australian ornithologist
1981
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Adelaide
December 1983 - September 1988
Career position - Editor, RAOU monographs
1994
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Queensland
1994 - 1997
Career position - Visiting Professor, Laboratorio de Evolución, Faculdad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay
1997 - 2005
Career position - Chair and Assistant Curator, Department of Ornithology, Academy of National Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
2005 -
Career position - Associate Editor, Emu - austral ornithology
2005 -
Career position - Director, Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO
2008 - 2015
Career position - Member, Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections
2009
Award - Whitley Award, Best Australian Natural History Book (shared), Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
2009 - 2012
Career position - Associate Editor, The auk
2015 -
Award - Honorary Life Member, South Australian Ornithological Association
2015 - 2018
Career position - Chair, Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections
2015 - 2023
Career position - Group Leader, Vertebrate Collections, National Research Collections of Australia
2018
Award - D. L. Serventy Award, Birdlife Australia
2019 - 2020
Career position - Associate Editor, Journal of biogeography
2020
Award - Fellow. American Ornithological Society

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Published resources

Edited Books

  • Robin, Libby, Heinsohn, Robert and Joseph, Leo eds, Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country (Collingwood (Vic.) : CSIRO, 2009), 312 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, '2018 Serventy Medal citation: Leo Joseph', Emu, 118 (4) (2018), 389-90. Details
  • Joseph, Leo; Burbidge, Allan H.; Delhey, Kaspar; Hansen, Birgita D.; Kleindorfer, Sonia; and Maurer, Golo, 'Emu's first 120 years: landmark papers of change in austral ornithology', Emu, 121 (4) (2021), 284-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2021.19935269. Details

Resources

See also

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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