A/ProfDaniel Ramp

Daniel Ramp is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Compassionate Conservation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where he is an Associate Professor in the Transdisciplinary School. He leads the development of research, teaching, and public outreach in the centre, where the goal is to stimulate innovation, novel research, and conservation practices that make the lives of wildlife better. Dan conducts scientific research on human-wildlife interactions, wildlife trade, conservation practice, and wild animal welfare, while also collaborating widely with other disciplines. He has led multiple ARC and CRC projects, working with government and industry to engage in evidenced-based policy transformation that promote multispecies coexistence and sustainability, particularly in production landscapes. He has published over 160 journal articles and book chapters. He was a founding member of THINKK – the think tank on kangaroos, is a Director of Voiceless, and a founding member of the Society for Compassionate Conservation.

Current Projects:

Compassionate conservation: Bringing individuals into conservation decision making
Wildlife friendly farming: Helping farmers to benefit from protecting wildlife
Wildlife welfare: Non-invasive methods for wildlife welfare assessment
Population modelling: Understanding compassionate management options for wildlife
Ecoclimatology: Using microclimate to aid conservation and agriculture
Ecohydrology: Minimising risk to drinking water supply
Road ecology: Urbanisation impacts on animal welfare
Ecosystem services: The role of herbivory in ecosystem functioning
Landscape ecology: Maximising persistence of large mammals in production landscapes

Current Lab Members:

• Dr Rosalie Chapple (Deputy Director, Senior Research Fellow)
• Dr Renae Charalambous (Adjunct Fellow)

Current HDR Students:

• Nynke Kooistra (PhD) (with Rosalie Chapple & Dedee Woodside) - Understanding the potential for street dogs to thrive in the bustling communities of India
• Margarita Steinhardt (PhD) (with Susanne Pratt) - Evolutionary trajectories and historical processes that shape human-felid communities
• Lisa Ashby (MRes) (with Rosalie Chapple, Shelley Alexander) - An ecocentric perspective on the inner and social lives of wild canids in Australia
• Prativa Bomzon (PhD) (with Rosalie Chapple) - Contextualising free-roaming dogs as ecological beings in the eastern Himalayan foothills of India
• Rashmi Singh Rana (PhD) (with Rosalie Chapple, Kulbahushansingh Suryawanshi) - Socio-ecological transformations in the Indian trans-Himalaya: contextualising coexistence through multispecies relationships
• Deborah Sullivan (PhD) (with Kate Brandis, John Porter, Andrea Harvey) - Optimising pelican health and well-being in a multi-stakeholder world
• Alex Trobec (PhD) (with Kenny Sabir, Luke Mathieson) - Determining sustainability interventions to help improve the resilience of livestock farms against environmental perturbations
• Madeline Watts (PhD) (with Renae Charalambous) - Welfare of eastern grey kangaroos
• Rajendra Dhungana (PhD) (with Achyut Aryal) - Problematising tiger conservation and climatic change in Nepal

Recent Past Staff and Students:

• Dr Andrea Harvey (Chancellors Post-Doctoral Research Fellow) - Advancing One Welfare to reframe coexistence and nature conservation
• Dr Arnick Abdollahi (Research Scientist) - Foragecaster
• Dr Achyut Aryal (Adjunct Fellow)
• Dr Eamonn Wooster (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) - Decolonial approaches to street dogs and rabies in India
• Dr Kyle Zawada (Post-Doctoral Research Associate) - Realtime wildlife biosignals using XRF and AI
• Dr Arian Wallach (Lecturer) - Do apex predators enable native-non-native coexistence?
• Dr Marine Desprez (Research Fellow) - Crop yield prediction using microclimate data
• Dr Boyu Ji (Research Fellow) - Crop yield prediction using microclimate data
• Dr Miriam Zemanova (Visiting Research Fellow) - Landscape fragmentation impacts on kangaroo populations
• Dr Rachael Nolan (Post-Doctoral Fellow) -Managing risk in carbon markets
• Dr John Gollan (Post-Doctoral Fellow) - The role of microclimate in ecological systems

• Loic Juillard (PhD) (with Eamonn Wooster & Andrea Harvey) - The influence of extreme weather on the ecology and welfare of eastern grey kangaroos in semi-arid rangelands
• Taylor McEvoy (MRes) (with Rosalie Chapple, Erick Lundgren & Eamonn Wooster) - Reframing the functional contributions of wild boar in rewilding narratives
• Jake Brown (PhD) (with Rod Bennison & Eamonn Wooster) - Can decolonial approaches to urban design promote cohabitation and multispecies flourishing?
• Chris Hasselerharm (PhD) (with Kate Brandis) - Provenance detection using real-time forensics in aquatic wildlife
• Gavin Bonsen (PhD) (with Arian Wallach) - Wolf-human conflict in the middle-east
• Andrea Harvey (PhD) (with Fiona Hollinshead, Rosalie Chapple) - Development of wild animal welfare assessments in wild horses
• Eamonn Wooster (PhD) (with Arian Wallach) - The role of coevolution and ecological context in the behavioural ecology of the red fox
• Erick Lundgren (PhD) (with Arian Wallach) - Biodiversity and ecological function in an age of biotic distribution
• Jianguo Li (PhD) (with Qiang Yu, Kate Brandis) - Biosignals from water chemistry
• Esty Yanco (PhD) - Coexistence in shared landscapes: one health analysis of wildlife friendly farming systems
• Caitlin Austin (PhD) (with Finbarr Horgan) - Decline, fragmentation and welfare of kangaroos in NSW
• Evan Webster (PhD) (UNSW) (with Richard Kingsford, David Keith, Ashish Sharma) - Defining the spatio-temporal effect of vegetation, disturbance and rainfall in water catchment areas
• Eamonn Wooster (Honours) (with Arian Wallach) - The effect of dingoes and humans on foraging behaviour of the red fox
• Ray Mjadwesch (MSc) - Kangaroos in NSW: A Stratified Population Model
• Andrew Letten (PhD) (UNSW) (with David Keith, John Gollan, Mick Ashcroft) - The influence of fine-scale climate variability on patterns of plant community diversity
• Melanie Purdy (Honours) - Using technology to improve coexistence between humans and kangaroos
• Caitlin Austin (Hons) (with Jonathan Webb, Katherine Tuft) - Using camera traps to estimate survival and abundance of a critically endangered marsupial, the northern quoll
• Kea Clarke (Hons) - Macropods and riparian restoration activities
• Zoe-Joy Newby (PhD) (USYD) (with David Guest, Ed Liew) - The role of Phytophthora dieback in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area
• Gilad Bino (PhD 2012) (UNSW) (with Richard Kingsford) - Large scale conservation strategies for Australia's mammals
• John Burley (Hons 2013) (with John Gollan, Graham Pyke) - Where have the frogs gone? Climate, disease, and amphibian extinction
• Kresinda Turner (Hons) (with John Gollan, Chris Reid) - Beetle responses to climate variability
• Rachael Loneragan (Hons2013) - Spatial population regulation in ground-dwelling mammals in urban environments
• GavinBonsen (Hons 2012) (with Brad Law) - Resource selection patterns in microbats as a response to noise pollution in urbanised landscapes