Person
Spratt, David Michael (1942 - )
- Born
- 30 July 1942
Toronto, Canada - Died
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Occupation
- Ecologist and Parasitologist
Summary
David Spratt has substantial experience in many aspects of wildlife parasitology and in zoonotic diseases, His research was on the ecology, taxonomy and life cycles of parasites of Australian native animals, including nematodes, trematodes, cestodes, mosquitoes, fleas, ticks and mites. In addition he initiated programs on the role of rabbits in life cycle of parasitic fauna of Australian native animals and on the introduction of helminth parasites to augment rabbit control. Spratt provided diagnostic assistance to medical and veterinary clinicians, and biologists which proved a rich source of new taxonomic and zoonotic knowledge. He built up fully-documented and electronically databased collection of parasites which was the basis for his own studies but also useful to colleagues nationally and internationally. Between 1993 and 1997 was Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research.
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Chronology
- 1965
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Toronto
- 1966
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Toronto
- 1970
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Queensland
- 1971 - 1973
- Career position - Australian Research Grants Committee Post-doctoral Fellowship
- 1973 - 1977
- Career position - Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research
- 1977 - 1982
- Career position - Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research
- 1982 - 1993
- Career position - Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research
- 1993 - 1997
- Career position - Assistant Chief, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research
- 1993 - 2000
- Career position - Senior Principal Research scientist, CSIRO Division of Wildlife Research
- 2000 -
- Career position - Research Fellow, Australian National Wildlife Collections, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
- 2000
- Award - Fellow, Australian Society for Parasitology
- 2000
- Life event - Retired
- 2015
- Award - Ed Addison Distinguished Service Award, Wildlife Disease Association
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Angus, B. M.; Cannon, L. G. R.; and Adlard, R. D., 'Parasitology and the Queensland Museum, with Biographical Notes on Collectors', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Nature, 53 (2007), 1-156. Details
- Beveridge, I., and Spratt, D. M., 'The helminth parasites of Australasian marsupials: origins and evolutionary biology', Advances in parasitology, 37 (1996), 135-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-308X(08)60221-3. Details
- Spratt, D. M., and Beveridge, I., 'Helminth parasites of Australasian marsupials and monotremes', Zootaxa, 4123 (2016), 1-198. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4123.1.1. Details
- Spratt, David M. and Beveridge, Ian, 'Wildlife parasitology in Australia: past, present and future', Australian journal of zoology, 66 (4) (2018), 286-305. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO19017. Details
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Last modified: 10 August 2016