Paton, David Cleland

Summary

David Paton is an ornithologist and ecologist who has been at the University of Adelaide since 1983. His research interests lie with the ecology of Australian honeyeaters, and with bird conservation and habitat restoration in South Australian woodlands. He has been a strong advocate for environmental restoration around the mouth of the Murray River, and in 2010 published At the end of the River: the Coorong and Lower Lakes. Paton has been involved in a number of habitat restoration and species recovery programs, including those for the Glossy and Red-tailed Cockatoos. He has held executive roles with Birds Australia and in 2007 became a Life Member of the South Australian Ornithological Association. In 1986 with H. A. Ford Paton co-edited The Dynamic partnership: birds and plants in Southern Australia.

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Chronology

1981 - 1982

Award - Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship

1984 -

Career position - Principal Investigator, Earthwatch Institute

1990 - 1993

Career position - President, South Australian Ornithological Association

1995 - 1997

Career position - Member of Council, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

1997 -

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, South Australian ornithologist

1997 -

Career position - Member, Science Advisory Committee, Earthwatch Institute

1997 - 1999

Career position - Member of Council, Birds Australia

1997 - 2006

Career position - Lecturer, University of Adelaide

1999 - 2005

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Emu

2000 - 2004

Career position - Member, Recovery Team and Research Sub-Committee, Birds for Biodiversity Program

2003 - 2009

Career position - Member, Research and Conservation Committee, Birds Australia

2004

Award - Dean of Science Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Adelaide

2004

Award - Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalist Society of South Australia

2004 - 2006

Career position - Member, Editorial Board, Ecological management and restoration

2006 -

Career position - Head, Discipline of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide

2006

Award - South Australian Premier's Science Excellence Award

2007 -

Award - Life Member, South Australian Ornithological Association

2008

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to conservation and the environment through research into the ecology and behaviour of Australian birds, to the management and restoration of the natural environment, and to education

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Baker, Jack, 'D. L. Serventy 2011: citation - David Cleland Paton AM', Emu, 112 (2012), 78. Details
• Paton, David C.; Robertson, Jeremy; and Buchanan, Kate, 'D. L Serventy Medal 2016 citation: Sonia M. Kleindorfer', Emu, 116 (2016), 47. Details
• Paton, David, Copley, Peter, Garnett, Stephen and Joseph, Leo, 'J. N. Hobbs Medal 2015: citation - Lynn Pedler', Australian field ornithology, 32 (2015), 209-10. Details

Resources

• 'Paton, D C', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-571794. Details

See also

• Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia [Queen's Birthday 2008: M-Z], Governor General's Office, Canberra, 2008, https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20130329080918mp_/http:/www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/qb/qb2008/Media%20notes%20AM%20%28M-Z%29%20%28final%29-web.pdf. Details
• Collier, Roger; Hatch, John; Matheson, Bill; Russell, Tony ed., Birds, Birders and Birdwatching 1899-1999: celebrating one hundred years of the South Australian Ornithological Association (Adelaide: South Australian Ornithological Association, 1999), 244 pp. Details
• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details