Person
Wright, E. Jane (c. 1954 - )
- Born
- c. 1954
Canada - Occupation
- Entomologist
Summary
Jane Wright started her career working on predatory dung beetles in South Africa for CSIRO, from 1984 to 1988. She discovered a number of unknown beetles, one of which was named Aleochara wrightii in her honour. In 1988 she became an insect ecologist and behavouirist with the Stored Grain Research Laboratory, CSIRO Division of Entomology, in Canberra. Her work involved trapping and detecting insects in stored grain products, and the distribution, ecology and control of the warehouse beetle. From 1997 to 2005 Wright was Head of the Laboratory.
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Chronology
- 1976
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- 1978
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Guelph, Canada
- 1984
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
- 1984 - 1988
- Career position - Research scientist (working on dung beetles in South Africa), CSIRO Division of Entomology
- 1988 - 1997
- Career position - Research scientist, Stored Grain Research Laboratory, CSIRO Divisio of Entomology
- 1997 - 2005
- Career position - Head, Stored Grain Research Laboratory, CSIRO Divisio of Entomology
- 2009 -
- Career position - Honorary Fellow, CSIRO
- 2009
- Life event - Retired
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Edwards, Penny, Wilson, Pam and Wright, Jane, Introduced dung beetles in Australia : a pocket field guide (Clayton South, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2015), 71 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Wright, E. Jane and Cogan, P. M., 'Trapping and sampling: a proposal for standards in reporting', Journal of stored product research, 31 (3) (1995), 175-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-474X(95)000172. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28006691. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/316807192. Details
- 'Wright, Jane (1954-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476719. Details
Resource Sections
- Haritos, Victoria, 'Interview with Dr Jane Wright', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 21 June 2000, https://www.science.org.au/learning/general-audience/history/interviews-australian-scientists/dr-jane-wright-entomologist. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 15 August 2002, Last modified: 9 April 2024