Conrad Hoskin

My research and teaching interests focus on biodiversity: what's out there, how we discover and describe it, how it arises and adapts through time, and how we can conserve it.

I'm very interested in surveys and monitoring of biodiversity, with a particular focus on rare and threatened species, and discovering species new to science. I am also an expert in research on how species form and have a particular interest in rapid adaptation, including to human-induced change like climate change, invasive species, and disease.

Amongst all this, my projects are centred on conservation. This includes surveys and monitoring of threatened species, species assessments for listing threatened and recovering species, assessment and management of threats to wildlife populations, wild-to-wild translocations, captive breeding, and conservation genetics projects.

My research methods include field data, lab data, genetics, and modelling. My research is generally on frogs, lizards and mammals but I'm interested in all biodiversity, including the conservation of whole communities and regions. My interests scale local to global, with projects at all levels. 

My teaching reflects my research, with a focus on the biodiversity we have, how it forms and adapts, how it interacts, and how we can conserve it. My core areas of teaching are vertebrate biodiversity, wildlife ecology and management, and genetics and adaptation.

My current leadership/service/engagement includes the following:

Honorary Research Fellow, Queensland Museum
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (Co-chair)
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (Regional Coordinator, Oceania)
IUCN Australian Species Specialist group (Steering Committee)
IUCN SSC Skink Specialist Group 
IUCN SSC Gekkota Lizard Specialist Group 
Wet Tropics World Heritage Area Scientific Advisory Committee
Species Technical Committee, Queensland Government
The Australian Society of Herpetologists (ASH) (Vice President)
ASH Taxonomic Committee
ASH Conservation Committee
Bridled Nail-tail Wallaby Recovery Team
Associate Editor, Wildlife Letters
Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Environmental Science and Management (BESM) JCU
Coordinator of the Biodiversity Assessment & Management (BAM) major, BESM, JCU
Marketing and Engagement Committee, College of Science & Engineering, JCU