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Doctor

Calum Cunningham

(he/him)

Research Fellow in Physical Pyrogeography

Biological Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0003-1640-2533
  • Research Fellow in Physical Pyrogeography
    Biological Sciences

BIO

Dr Calum Cunningham is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in pyrogeography in the School of Natural Sciences, where he currently researches the effects of climate change on fire regimes, and in turn, ecosystems and societies. Calum’s wide-ranging interests include fire ecology, wildlife and conservation ecology, animal movements, global change, invasive species, and wildlife-vehicle collisions. Calum's reseach ultimately aims to provide knowledge that can help us to better manage the natural world.

Calum obtained his PhD in 2020 for research that revealed a series of cascading effects of Tasmanian devil decline. Since then, Calum has undertaken three postdoctoral positions. At the University of Tasmania, he completed a short postdoc revealing the historical and projected explosion of Tasmania’s deer population. He then moved to the University of Washington for two years, where he jointly completed a Fulbright Fellowship studying the ecological effects of wolf recolonisation, and a NASA-funded postdoc studying the effects of climate change on snow and wildlife movements. In Calum’s current position at the University of Tasmania, he is investigating changes to fire regimes and the drivers of fire disasters to provide knowledge that can help society prepare for a hotter and more flammable world.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Tasmania, School of Natural Sciences, Australia1 Feb 2020 - 1 Feb 2021
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Science, Seattle, United States1 Jan 2022 - 1 Mar 2023
  • Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Science, Seattle, United States20 Apr 2021 - 31 Dec 2021

DEGREES

  • PhD
    University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia30 Jun 2015 - 1 Aug 2020
  • Bachelor of Science (Hons I)
    University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia1 Feb 2013 - 30 Nov 2013
  • Bachelor of Science (Natural Resources)
    University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia1 Feb 2010 - 30 Nov 2012

SCHOOL AND PORTFOLIO

  • School of Natural Sciences

FIELD OF RESEARCH