Person
Gosbell, Kenneth Bruce (1937 - )
- Born
- 3 August 1937
Camberwell, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer and Ornithologist
Summary
Ken Gosbell, having retired as a civil engineer in 1995, became immersed in the study and conservation of migratory shorebirds. He is a member of the Victorian Wader Study Group and since 1997 has served on the committee of the Australian Wader Studies Group. In addition he managed the joint banding database of these groups. Gosbell was chairman of the Shorebird Working Group of the Flyway Partnership dedicated to protection of migratory pathways from eastern Asia to Australasia, and published on the birds using this pathway. He was one of the first researchers to recognise the importance of geolocators for the remote study of breeding colonies.
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Chronology
- 1957
- Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1958
- Career event - Cadet engineer, Engineering Design Section, Technical Division, Department of Works, in Victoria
- 1966
- Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 13 Sep 1968
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]
- 1995 -
- Career position - Member, Victorian Wader Study Group
- 1995
- Life event - Retired [from Commonwealth Department of Administrative Services]
- 1995
- Life event - Retired
- 1997 - 2006
- Career position - Committee Member, Australian Wader Studies Group
- 2006 - 2010
- Career position - Chairman, Australasian Wader Studies Group
- 2017
- Award - John N. Hobbs Medal, Birdlife Australia
- 2020
- Award - Clive Minton Medallion, Victorian Wader Study Group
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Published resources
Conference Papers
- Stevens, L. K.; and Gosbell, K. B., 'Model analysis of a composite beam and slab bridge', in Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) Conference, 2nd, Melbourne, 1964 (1964), pp. 1326-1343.. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Hobbs Medal Citation: Ken Gosbell', Emu, 117 (3) (2017), 301-2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01584197.2017.1345343. Details
- Atkinson, Steve, 'Minton Medal citation: Ken Gosbell', VWSG bulletin, 44 (2021), 82-4. Details
- Gosbell, Ken, 'Obituary Ken Rogers (1939 - 2021)', Stilt, 76 (2021), 7-8. Details
- Gosbell, Ken, 'A personal reflection on 15 years of the VWSG geolocator program', VWGS bulletin, 47 (2024), 33-4. Details
- Gosbell, Kenneth Bruce (Betts, N. O.), 'The design of a vehicular tunnel under the North-South Runway at Sydney Airport (and Discussion)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 38 (9) (1966), 239-246. Details
- Minton, C. [and others], 'Geolocator studies of Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres and Greater sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii in the East Asian-Australian flyway reveal widely different migration strategies', Wader Study Group bulletin 118:87-96, 118 (2011), 87-96. Details
- Minton, C. [and others], 'Geolocator studies of Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres and Greater sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii in the East Asian-Australian flyway reveal widely different migration strategies', Wader Study Group bulletin 118:87-96, 118 (2011), 87-96. Details
- Minton, Clive [and others], 'New insights from geolocators deployed on waders in Australia', Wader Study Group bulletin, 120 (1) (2013), 37-46. Details
- Rogers, Danny, 'J. N. Hobbs Medal 2017: citation - Ken Gosbell', Australian field ornithology, 34 (2017), 80-1, http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo34080081. Details
- Zhao, Meijuan [and others], 'Body size shapes inter-specific migratory behaviour: evidence from individual tracks of long-distance migratory shorebirds', Journal of avian biology, 49 (1) (2017), 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01570. Details
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Created: 20 November 2018, Last modified: 1 July 2026