johnfmcevoyApr 11, 20175 min readIn The Footprints of Giants: Tracking Elephants in MyanmarEarlier this year I began working at the Conservation Ecology Centre within the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. A large part...
johnfmcevoyJan 28, 20172 min readNew Year, New Job, New Countries, New Species!Joining the Smithsonian Conservation Biology InstituteExciting news! I have just made a big move to lovely Virginia, USA and started a new post-doc at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology...
johnfmcevoyOct 1, 20162 min readNew Collaboration: Migratory Geese in the East Asian/ Australasian FlywayI have recently started on another exciting collaboration with my good friends and colleagues Yaara Aaron-Rotman and Lei Cao at the...
johnfmcevoyAug 24, 20161 min readNew Collaboration: Cattle, Land and Fire in the KimberleyI have recently joined a team at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) to help analyse data from their Cattle, Land and Fire (CaLF)...
johnfmcevoyApr 19, 20161 min readNew Collaboration: Tracking Endangered Parrots in TasmaniaI've recently started collaborating on a fantastic project looking at the foraging behaviour and nesting success of endangered swift...
johnfmcevoyMar 23, 20161 min readUAVs for Waterfowl SurveysI recently published a paper with Paul McDonald and Graham Hall at University of New England in Australia where we evaluated the...
johnfmcevoyJan 31, 20161 min readPygmy Elephants in BorneoAnother great collaboration that I'm lucky to be involved with is with Nurzhafarina Othman and Benoit Goosens at Cardiff University's...
johnfmcevoyAug 4, 20151 min readCreepy But CuriousI recently did a segment on an ABC radio show called "Creepy But Curious" where scientists from University of New England Talk about all...
johnfmcevoyJun 20, 20151 min readHow Does a Duck Know?A big part of my PhD work involved looking into potential cues for long distance movement in nomadic desert waterfowl. The arid...
johnfmcevoyApr 10, 20141 min readBiodiversity EastBiodiversity East is a conservation NGO that brings together scientists working across the Mediterranean and Middle East regions. I am...
johnfmcevoyApr 4, 20131 min readThe Adventures of Papa Smurf - Scientist At LargeMy colleague Raoul and I have a tradition of buying Kinder eggs while on the road. Given that our field trips have sometimes lasted two...