Person

Kikkawa, Jiro (1929 - 2016)

Born
15 December 1929
Japan
Died
30 May 2016
Occupation
Ornithologist

Summary

Jiro Kikkawa, Head of the Department of Zoology, University of Queensland 1980-1988,was well known for his work on silvereyes on the off-shore islands of the Great Barrier Reef and his publications on the biogeography of Australian rainforest birds. He also fostered scientific links between Australia and Japan. In 2018 the Jiro Kikkawa Research Award was inaugurated by Birds Queensland

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Chronology

1950
Education - Degree in marine biology, University of Tokyo, Japan
1950 - 1953
Career position - Technical Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Japan
1954
Education - Postgraduate study, Kyoto University, Japan
1955 - 1957
Award - British Council Scholarship for postgraduate study at University of Oxford
1958
Career position - Member of Water Pollution Study Team touring United States
1958 - 1961
Career position - Teaching Fellow, University of Otago, New Zealand
1961 - 1964
Career position - Temporary Lecturer, University of New England
1965 - 1979
Career position - Senior Lecturer (later Reader) in Zoology, University of Queensland
1972 - 1975
Career position - President, Queensland Ornithological Society
1974 - 1976
Career position - President, Ecological Society of Australia
1980 - 1988
Career position - Professor and Head of Department of Zoology, University of Queensland
1986
Award - Ecological Society of Australia Gold Medal
1999
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to ecological research, to conservation and to the ornithology of Australian tropical rainforests
1999
Award - D. L. Serventy Medal, BirdLife Australia

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Published resources

Edited Books

  • Moritz, Craig; and Kikkawa, Jiro eds, Conservation biology in Australia and Oceania (Chipping Norton, N.S.W.: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1994), 404 pp. Details
  • Webb, L. J.; and Kikkawa, J. eds, Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1990), 185 pp. Details

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Resources

Reviews

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 492 pp.
    Kikkawa, Jiro, Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (2), (2002), 241-243. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR02011. Details

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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