Rate My Professor Douglas Kerlin

Douglas Kerlin is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Environment and Science at Griffith University. He holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow, awarded in 2009. With a background in population and spatial ecology, his research focuses on wildlife disease ecology, conservation biology and road ecology. He has contributed to studies examining disease impacts on Tasmanian devil populations, koala conservation including chlamydia and retrovirus, and the effects of environmental policy and infrastructure on wildlife. Key publications include work on quantifying disease-caused declines in Tasmanian devils published in 2021, large-effect loci affecting survival in infected devils in 2018, and assessments of endemic disease significance in koala conservation in 2018. Additional research addresses persistent coronavirus infections in Australian bats, sickness behaviour in wild devils, and insights from koala care records in South East Queensland published in 2022. His work also covers monitoring fauna-sensitive infrastructure for koala conservation and applying landscape principles to koala management.