Tertiary Education: PHD Candidate (Behavioural Ecology), Curtin University

Ashleigh Katherine Wolfe
Curriculum Vitae for ashleighkwolfe.wordpress.com as at 18 November 2017
Tertiary education
2014 to PhD Candidate (Behavioural Ecology), Curtin University
2017 Department of Environment & Agriculture, Curtin University Bentley WA
Title: The Ecology of Perths Urban Reptiles Using a Snake (dugite, Pseudonaja
affinis, Elapidae) and Skink (bobtail, Tiliqua r. rugosa, Scincidae) as Models.
Supervisors: Dr Bill Bateman (Curtin University), A/Prof Trish Fleming (Murdoch
University)
Finalist, 2015 Curtin University Three Minute Thesis Competition.
Completed thesis submitted on 30 November 2017 as a series of six manuscripts.
Data chapters:
1. What traits influence degree of urban adaptation? A global analysis of reptiles.
2. Does urbanisation influence diet of a large snake?
3. Impacts of translocation on a large urban-adapted venomous snake.
4. Responses of free-living urban-adapted lizards to escalating levels of human
observation.
5. Can Western Australians correctly identify venomous snakes?
6. Assessing the validity of surveying attitudes towards animals on roads:
questionnaire responses do not directly translate to behavioural action.
2013 Bachelor of Science (Honours), Curtin University

Department of Environment & Agriculture, Curtin University Bentley WA
Awarded First Class; School of Science Runner-up Most Outstanding Honours
Student; WA Naturalists Club Serventy Memorial Prize in Natural Sciences.
Title: Basal metabolic rate and evaporative water loss of arid-habitat birds.
Supervisors: Dr Christine Cooper (Curtin University), Prof Philip Withers (University
of Western Australia)
2010 to Bachelor of Science (Environmental Biology), Curtin University

2012
Department of Environment & Agriculture, Curtin University Bentley WA
Awarded Distinction
Research areas
Analysis of wildlife admission causes and outcomes at Australian wildlife centres.
Examining human-snake encounters across the Perth metropolitan area, and developing
ways to educate the public to promote public health issues around snake bite.
Assessing recovery rates of bobtails following treatment for an infectious disease. Part
of the Shingleback Nidovirus working group with Murdoch University, Curtin
University, and wildlife centres.
Testing the efficacy of commercially available snake repellents on local reptiles and
other wildlife.
Dugite comparative anatomy and feeding ecology: role of ontogeny on prey items.
Publications:
Bateman, PW, PA Fleming & AK Wolfe. (2017) A different kind of ecological modelling:
the use of clay model organisms to explore predator-prey interactions in
vertebrates. Journal of Zoology 301: 251-262. doi: 10.1111/jzo.12415.
Wolfe, AK, PA Fleming & PW Bateman. (2017) Does urbanisation influence diet of a
large snake? Current Zoology, early view. doi: 10.1093/cz/zox039.
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Curriculum Vitae of Ashleigh K Wolfe as at 30 November 2017
Conference presentations
2017 Australian Society of Herpetologists, Fairbridge WA.
Talk, Can the average Western Australian differentiate between harmless and
venomous endemic reptiles?
WA Wetland Management Conference, Bibra Lake WA.
Workshop, Management of reptile predators using models as proxies.
2016 Ecological Society of Australia, Fremantle WA.

Talk, A review of factors affecting reptile successes in urban areas.
Australian Society of Herpetologists, Launceston, TAS.
Talk, GPS tracking dugites (Pseudonaja affinis) in Perth via external tail
attachment: an effective alternative to implants?
Poster, Ontogenetic diet shifts in dugites (Pseudonaja affinis) across time and
space.
2015 Australian Wildlife Management Society, Perth WA.

Poster, Assessing intentional motor vehicle strikes of reptiles.
Poster, Reptile rehabilitation admissions in a city, using volunteer records from
wildlife centres.
International Ethological Congress Behaviour 2015, Cairns QLD.
Talk, Causes of reptile death in a city using volunteer records from wildlife
rehabilitation centres.
Australian Society of Herpetologists, Eildon VIC.
Talk, The ecology of Perths urban reptiles using a snake and skink as models.
2014 Royal Society of Western Australia Centenary Postgraduate Symposium, Perth, WA.
Talk, Perths urban reptile ecology: does living in the city affect reptile diet?
2013 9th National Peer Assisted Study Success (PASS) Forum, Sydney NSW.
Talk, Strategies for success when attendance is low.
Work experience and licenses

2017 Wagin Woodanilling Landcare Zone, Wingedyne Nature Reserve WA Bioblitz (citizen
science event), October 14 15. Team leader, captured and identified reptiles,
birds and invertebrates to record local biodiversity.
2016 to Native Animal Rescue. Hospital supervisor, reptile coordinator, executive member.
2017
2015 to Mentor, PhD students: Sophie Cross (mine site restoration/varanid behaviour), James
2017 Barr (Kings skink, Egernia kingii, behavioural ecology).
Mentor, Honours students: Rebecca Chippendale (bobtail bite force), Aleksa Marinovic
(bobtail gut passage rates), Meghan Castelli (Hons, lizard caudal autotomy).
Mentor, two high school students: Primary Industry Centre for Science Education
Industry Placement Scholarship Program.
2014 to WA Parks and Wildlife Service Regulation 17 reptile removalists licence #RR2020.
2017 Coordinator, wildlife displays at Curtin University Open Day.
Laboratory demonstrator/tutor, Environmental Biology units: Introductory Biology,

Zoology, Introductory Statistics in R, Climate Change.
2011 to Armadale Reptile and Wildlife Centre. Animal husbandry volunteer.

2012
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Ashleigh Katherine Wolfe

Curriculum Vitae for ashleighkwolfe.wordpress.com as at 18 November 2017

2013 Bachelor of Science (Honours), Curtin University

2010 to Bachelor of Science (Environmental Biology), Curtin University

2016 Ecological Society of Australia, Fremantle WA.

2015 Australian Wildlife Management Society, Perth WA.

Work experience and licenses

Laboratory demonstrator/tutor, Environmental Biology units: Introductory Biology,

2011 to Armadale Reptile and Wildlife Centre. Animal husbandry volunteer.

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