 BSc (Hons), PhD
Research Associate
John is a Senior Research Scientist and currently holds a joint appointment between Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries and the School of Integrative Systems, UQ. John's career has taken him from Antarctica to the tropics, and has involved research on animals ranging from microscopic crustaceans to whales. John worked as a marine biologist with the Australian Antarctic Division in the 1980's, then completed a PhD on the ecology of an Antarctic fjord. John has worked for the Queensland Government as a fisheries scientist for >10 years but still visits Antarctica as a Naturalist with Aurora Expeditions. He is a keen collaborator on the UQ Dugong program, and is adept at catching dugongs and then sexing them using his patented '6-pack' method. John teaches LPWM2005 Fisheries Management & LPWM2006 Fisheries Technology, and contributes to ZOOL3006 and ZOOL3010 (Marine Mammals, Reptiles & Birds) and sometimes co-supervises graduate students at MarVERG.
Key papers
Brown, I.W., Kirkwood, J.M., Gaddes, S., Dichmont, C. & Ovenden, J.R. (1999) Population dynamics and management of spanner crabs in southern Queensland. Final Report to Fisheries Research and Development Corporation 128pp.
Ikeda, T., Dixon, P. & Kirkwood, J. (1985) Laboratory observations of moulting, growth and maturation in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana). Polar Biology 4, 1-18.
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John on a sub-Antarctic
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Kirkwood, J.M. (1983) A guide to the Euphausiacea of the Southern Ocean. Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, Research Notes 1, 1-45.
Kirkwood, J.M. (1996) The developmental rate of Euphausia crystallorophias larvae in Ellis Fjord, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. Polar Biology 16, 527-530.
Kirkwood, J.M. (2000) Marine Fish Habitat Research, Strategic Plan: A Whole of Ecosystem Approach. Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Brisbane, 10pp.
Kirkwood, J.M. & Brown, I.W. (1998) The effect of limb damage on the survival and burial time of discarded spanner crabs Ranina ranina (Linnaeus). Marine and Freshwater Research 49, 41-45.
Kirkwood, J.M., Brown, I.W. Gaddes, S.W. & Hoyle, S. (2005) Juvenile length-at-age data reveal that spanner crabs (Ranina ranina) grow slowly. Marine Biology 147, 331-339.
Kirkwood, J.M. & Burton, H.R. (1988) Macrobenthic species assemblages in Ellis Fjord, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. Marine Biology 97, 445-457.
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Kirkwood, J.M. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2004) Coastal and marine biodiversity of the Burnett-Mary Region. Technical Report to Burnett-Mary Regional Group 50pp
Lanyon, J.M., Slade, R.W., Sneath, H.L., Broderick, D., Kirkwood, J.M., Limpus, D., Limpus, C.J. & Jessop, T. (2006) A method for capturing dugongs (Dugong dugon) in open-water. Aquatic Mammals 32, 196-201.
Lanyon, J.M., Sneath, H.L., Kirkwood, J.M., & Slade, R.W (2002) Establishing a mark-recapture program for dugongs in Moreton Bay, south-east Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 24, 51-56.
Rudkin, K.C., Kirkwood, J.M., Hero, J-M. & Arthur, M. (2003) Do estuarine no-take reserves affect the abundance and length frequencies of fishery target species - an assessment of two north Queensland estuarine 'no-take' marine park zones. In Beumer, J.P., Grant, A. & Smith, D.C. Aquatic Protected Areas: What works best and how do we know? ASFB Australia, pp 500-510.
Links
DPI&F Southern Fisheries Centre website
Aurora Expeditions website
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