NAME and CONTACT

Brigitta Flick [email protected] Mobile 0400120635

Educational Background:

2014 PhD, James Cook University ('Landowners' Management of Riparian Forest in Far North Queensland, Australia') 2003 Honours IIa in Psychology ('Operant conditioning in spectacled flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus'), James Cook University. 1988 Bachelor of Arts in English Language, University of Wollongong. 1985 Associate Diploma of Fine Arts, University of Wollongong. 1961 Certificate as Agricultural Technical Assistant in Plant Pathology.

Work Background and Skills:

Fluent German speaker and translator of scientific writings. 1988 to present co-founder, director and researcher of the Austrop Foundation dedicated to support and facilitate research into the structure and function of wet tropics habitats situated in Cape Tribulation, Far North Queensland. 1999-2003 Advanced Analytical Centre, James Cook University. Laboratory Assistant: processing silica sand samples for a mine. 1988 Macquarie University, Department of German. Casual research assistant: Interviewing teaching staff at several Universities in NSW about different teaching methods. 1988 University of Wollongong, Department of English. Casual research assistant: Investigating 16th century medical texts for unusual usage of words for the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement. 1987-1988 University of Wollongong, Department of Biology. Full-time technician: Assisting in biochemical analyses studies on the optic system. 1978-1981 University of Wollongong, Department of Biology. Casual technician: Assisting in neurotransmitter studies. 1977-1978 University of California, Irvine, Department of Psychobiology. Staff research assistant: Assisting and teaching preservation and staining of nervous system tissue of mammals. 1968-1976 University of California, Irvine, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology. Staff research associate: Physiological and molecular studies on plants. 1965-1968 University of California, Berkeley, Department of Plant Pathology. Staff research associate: Air pollution studies on ozone resistant plants. 1962-1965 Landesanstalt für Immissions- und Bodennutzungsschutz, Essen, Germany. Technician: Studies on the effect of air pollution on agricultural plants. 1961-1962 Farbwerke Hoechst, Frankfurt , Germany. Technician: Maintenance of cell cultures for cancer research. 2 Research Publications: Flick, Brigitta, Nerina Caltabiano, and Joan Bentrupperbäumer. (2010). 'Retired farmers’ perceptions regarding the riparian forests in the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon catchment'. Psychology in Society. 3: 107-126. Flick, Brigitta, Nerina Caltabiano, and Joan Bentrupperbäumer. (2009). 'The impact of attitudes on streamside forest management practice by landowners in Far North Queensland'. Etropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics 8: 1-12. Flick, B., Spencer, H., and Van Der Zwan, R. (2011). 'Are hand-raised flying-foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) better learners than wild-raised ones in an operant conditioning situation?'. Australian Zoologist 35 (No. SPEC.): 86-91). Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. List of some publications of research that I participated in: Spencer, H., Weiblen, G., and Flick, B. (1996). 'Phenology of Ficus variegata in a seasonal wet tropical forest at Cape Tribulation, Australia'. Journal of Biogeography 23: 467-476. Weiblen, G.H., Spencer, H., and Flick B. (1995). 'Seed set and wasp predation in dioecious Ficus variegata from an Australian wet tropical forest'. Biotropica 27: 391-394. Arditti, J., and Flick, B.H. (1976) 'Post-pollination phenomena in orchid flowers. VI. Excised floral segments of Cymbidium'. American Journal o f Botany 63: 201- 11 Arditti, J., and Flick, B. (1974). 'Postpollination phenomena in orchid flowers. V. Participation by the rostellum and gymnostemium tip'. American Journal of Botany 61 (6): 643-651. Fisch, M., Ernst, R., Flick, B.H., and Arditti, J. (1973). 'Identity of ergosterol '5/3, 8/3- peroxide'. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 15: 530- 530. Miller, P. R., Parmeter Jr, J. R., Flick, B. H., and Martinez, C. W. (1969). 'Ozone dosage response of ponderosa pine seedlings'. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 19(6): 435-438.