Lachlan G. Howell

Experience

• 2022–present
  Chief Remote Pilot, Drone Operations Coordinator and Maintenance Controller, Deakin University
• 2021–present
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow , Deakin University's Centre for Integrative Ecology
• 2021–present
  Honorary Associate Lecturer , University of Newcastle
• 2020–2022
  Freelance Conservation Scientist and Remote Pilot, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
• 2020–2021
  Casual Academic, University of Newcastle
• 2017–2021
  PhD Candidate , University of Newcastle
• 2019–2021
  Freelance Conservation Scientist Consultant, FAUNA Research Alliance
• 2016–2017
  Research assistant, University of Newcastle

Education

• 2022 
  The University of Newcastle, Doctor of Philosophy. PhD Thesis titled "Examining the cost-effectiveness of emerging technologies for more effective threatened species conservation"
• 2021 
  The University of Western Australia, Applied Benefit: Cost Analysis, Masters Level Micro-credential (with High Distinction)
• 2016 
  The University of Newcastle , Bachelor of Environmental Science and Management (Honours)
• 2015 
  The University of Newcastle , Bachelor of Science with a major in Biological Sciences and with a major in Earth Sciences

Publications

• 2023
  Modeling genetic benefits and financial costs of integrating biobanking into the conservation breeding of managed marsupials, Conservation Biology
• 2022
  Emerging arguments for reproductive technologies in wildlife and their implications for assisted reproduction and conservation of threatened marsupials, Theriogenology
• 2022
  Modelling Genetic Benefits and Financial Costs of Integrating Biobanking into the Captive Management of Koalas, Animals
• 2022
  Putting the PASS in Class: Peer Mentors' Identities in Science Workshops on Campus and Online., Journal of Peer Learning
• 2022
  Drone thermal imaging technology provides a cost-effective tool for landscape-scale monitoring of a cryptic forest-dwelling species across all population densities, Wildlife Research
• 2022
  Intergenerational inequity: stealing the joy and benefits of nature from our children, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• 2022
  The Relative Role of Knowledge and Empathy in Predicting Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavior, Sustainability
• 2021
  Beyond species counts for assessing, valuing, and conserving biodiversity: response to Wallach et al. 2019, Conservation Biology
• 2021
  Integrating biobanking could produce significant cost benefits and minimise inbreeding for Australian amphibian captive breeding programs, Reproduction, Fertility and Development
• 2020
  Trialling a real-time drone detection and validation protocol for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), Australian Mammalogy
• 2020
  Response to comments on “Compassionate Conservation deserves a morally serious rather than dismissive response-reply to Callen et al., 2020”, Biological Conservation
• 2020
  Evaluating amphibian biobanking and reproduction for captive breeding programs according to the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan objectives, Theriogenology
• 2020
  Envisioning the future with ‘compassionate conservation’: An ominous projection for native wildlife and biodiversity, Biological Conservation
• 2020
  PUTTING THE PASS IN CLASS: IN-CLASS PEER MENTORING ON CAMPUS AND ONLINE, Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (formerly UniServe Science Conference)
• 2020
  Real-time drone derived thermal imagery outperforms traditional survey methods for an arboreal forest mammal, Plos one
• 2020
  Integrating biobanking minimises inbreeding and produces significant cost benefits for a threatened frog captive breeding programme, Conservation Letters
• 2019
  Reintroducing rewilding to restoration–Rejecting the search for novelty, Biological Conservation
• 2019
  The search for novelty continues for rewilding, Biological Conservation
• 2019
  Deconstructing compassionate conservation, Conservation Biology
• 2018
  An examination of funding for terrestrial vertebrate fauna research from Australian federal government sources, Pacific Conservation Biology

Grants and Contracts

• 2022
  Drone surveys vs double-observer counts for East Gippsland Koala populations.

  Role:

  Lead

  Funding Source:

  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

• 2022
  Machine learning development for automated drone detection of cryptic wildlife’

  Role:

  Co-lead

  Funding Source:

  Deakin University

Professional Memberships

• FAUNA Research Alliance
• Ecological Society of Australia
• Australasian Wildlife Management Society
• Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University

Research Areas

• Conservation And Biodiversity (050202)
• Public Policy (160510)
• Wildlife And Habitat Management (050211)
• Animal Reproduction (070206)
• Environmental Sciences (05)