Dr Frank Carrick AM has a B.Sc. with first
class honours from The University of New South Wales and completed his Ph.D.
at the same institution in 1977. After lecturing at The University of New
South Wales, Frank spent several years as a Senior Lecturer in The Department
of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Queensland.
During 1983 and 1984, he was appointed Visiting Research Professor at The
University of California, San Fransico.
Joining the Department of Zoology from the Department of Animal Sciences
and Production at The University of Queensland in 1987, Frank has led the
Koala Study Program and monotreme research within that department.
A past Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue
University, Fort Wayne, U.S.A. and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, U.S.A., Frank is currently a
Seniour Lecturer in Zoology and Entomology at The University of Queensland.
Frank was made a Member in the General Dision of the Order of Australia (AM),
"for service to wildlife preservation, particularly in relation to Koalas"
in 1995. He is senior author or co-author on over 100 research papers in
refereed journals, as well as the difinitive work on the koala (Lee, A.K.
& Carrick, F.N. The Phascolarctidae. Chapter 31 In Dyne,
G.R. & Walton, D.W. eds, Fauna of Australia : Mammalia
Volume 1B pp 740-754 Canberra, Australian Gov-ernment
Publishing Service. 1989.) and a standard reference on the platypus (Carrick,
F.N. Platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus. In R. Strahan ed The Mammals of Australia
pp 36-38 Reed Books, Sydney. 1995).
With extensive teaching experience and research
expertise, Frank Carrick is justifiably regarded as one of the key authorities
on koalas, in particular koalas in Queensland.
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