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

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