Peter Dann

Background

About Peter Dann

Dr. Peter Dann has retired as Research Director at Phillip Island Nature Parks (not-for-profit conservation organisation) which carries out investigations of the Island’s significant populations of Little Penguins, Short-tailed Shearwaters, Hooded Plovers, Australian Fur seals and the Island's threatened species. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters and edited a book on penguin ecology and management. His main research interests are population regulation, demography, climate change, foraging ecology, mitigation of anthropogenic threats to seabirds, ecology of islands and the conservation of threatened species. He has a life-long commitment to science-based wildlife management and threatened species conservation and is an honorary fellow of Birdlife Australia, a past Board member of the World Seabird Union and co-chair of the scientific committee for the World Seabird Conference in Hobart in 2021. Peter has held visiting fellow positions at Otago and Cambridge Universities and the University of Cape Town and currently the University of Melbourne and Victoria University (Adjunct Professor). His contribution to wildlife conservation has been enhanced by the privilege to co-supervise 40 post-graduate students at a variety of tertiary institutions in Australia and overseas.