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Doug White (Principal)   Dip (Hort), Dip (Turf Culture)

Doug has been involved in environmental consultancy for nine years and has surveyed in excess of 50 locations in the Gold Coast, Beaudesert, Brisbane and Redlands regions. He is currently employed by the Beaudesert Shire as the Project Officer for Tamborine Mountain Landcare and until recently was Mt Tamborine Escarpment Management Strategy Project Coordinator. Doug is also a registered spotter catcher and the past President of the Gold Coast and Hinterland branch of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland.

Doug has extensive natural history knowledge, is a recognized authority on fauna and flora and has trained various environmental, horticultural and agricultural groups including Green Corps, TAFE, Australian Trust for Conservation Volunteers and Lesley Wemyss Training School.

Professional Body Membership:
Kokoda Barricks (Canungra) - Environmental Advisory Council
Gold Coast City - Coomera-Pimpama Waste Water Management Strategy
Natural History Association of Tambourine Mountain
The Butterfly and other Invertebrates Club
Australian and New Guinea Fish Association The Loders Creek Catchment Management Committee, committee member
The Coombabah Kangaroo Management Study,  committee member

Member of the Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand (EIANZ)

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Damian White    BSc (App Bio), PGDip (Cons Bio),              PhD Candidate

Damian White is currently finishing his PhD research thesis investigating the effect of habitat fragmentation on faunal diversity (both vertebrate and invertebrate) in the Gold Coast City.  As a result of his consultancy work and PhD project, he is recognised as one of the regions most proficient and prolific fauna surveyors having completed studies at over eighty sites. Damian was previously employed on a casual basis by the Gold Coast City Council to critique, review and update their citywide vertebrate fauna species list. He has previously been employed as a research assistant at the University of Queensland Entomology Department, the Centre for Tropical Pest Management and at the Department of Primary Industries at Toowoomba.

Member of the Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand (EIANZ)
 

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Narelle Power   BSc (Hons)

Narelle has extensive experience in the field of entomology, holding a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in Entomology, and an honours degree, which investigated the temporal and spatial ecology of a previously little understood Dipteran Family. This study also resulted in the identification of several new species of Therevidae. Narelle was also involved in research into the potential use of native Australian seed-feeding fruit flies in the biocontrol of Senecio madagascariensis. Narelle has been a member of the Fauna Survey Team for the past 4 years, and has also been the project officer for a revegetation component funded by Coastcare for the Loders Creek Catchment Association, and been employed as a research assistant at the University of Queensland, and Griffith University.

Narelle undertakes wildlife photography for ddwfauna.

Member of the Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand (EIANZ)

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Jeannie White

Jeannie White has been involved in revegetation programs extensively for the past 5 years, and has been the supervisor for several Work for the Dole and Corrective Services programs. Jeannie has been managing the accounts for the members of ddwfauna for a period of 10 years. Jeannie is currently the Treasurer for the Wildlife Preservation Society Gold Coast and Hinterland Group, and a committee member of the Loders Creek Catchment Association.

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