Kirsten Parris

Kirsten M. Parris is an Australian urban ecologist, Associate Professor in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences at the University of Melbourne and an Honorary Associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.[1] She also leads the National Environmental Science Program's Research Hub for Clean Air and Urban Landscapes (CAUL).[2]

Early life and education

She was born in Kew, Victoria in 1969. In 1993 she received a BSc (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, and in 1994 a BA from the same institution. She was awarded a PhD from the Australian National University in 2000.

Career

She worked as a lecturer and researcher in Australia and the United States before joining the University of Melbourne in 2007.

She has received research grants from the Australian Research Council, the Department of the Environment and Energy, and other government agencies. She has published one book, Ecology of Urban Environments (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)[3], over 60 research papers, and five book chapters.

Her research has enjoyed considerable media attention, with over 300 reports transmitted by Australian and international outlets.

Scholarly contributions

Parris works on the ecology of urban areas with particular emphasis on amphibians, bioacoustics and animal communication, biological survey methods and ecological research ethics.[4][5]

Parris is recognised as an especially effective science communicator. She won the British Ecological Society's Science Slam in 2016[6] and was a finalist in the 2004 Australian National Fresh Science Competition.[7]

References
  1. "About me". WordPress. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  2. "The Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub". Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  3. "Ecology of Urban Environments".
  4. "Traffic noise wiping out Melbourne's frogs?". ECOS Magazine. 2010. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  5. Parris, Kirsten M., Sarah C. McCall, Michael A. McCarthy, Ben A. Minteer, Katie Steele, Sarah Bekessy, and Fabien Medvecky. "Assessing ethical trade‐offs in ecological field studies." Journal of applied ecology 47, no. 1 (2010): 227-234.
  6. "Frog in an urban pond". Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  7. "Fresh Science alumni". Fresh Science. Archived from the original on 23 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
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