Courtney Adams

Courtney is a behavioural ecologist. She completed a Bachelor of Advanced Science (Biology) Honours (Class I) at UNSW in 2023. Her Honours project looked at whether bioindicators can be used to predict the future success of threatened species translocations, by indicating the effectiveness of predator control. Courtney has a keen interest in threatened species, conservation, ecology and animal behaviour.

Supervised by: Katherine Moseby and Richard Kingsford

Project Title: The Effect of Extreme Heat on Desert Mammals

Project Description: Courtney's PhD is investigating how extreme heat impacts two, threatened, Australian arid-zone mammals, the numbat and the Shark Bay bandicoot. She is using animal mounted telemetry devices, such as accelerometers and temperature sensitive collars, combined with environmental loggers to measure behavioural and physiological changes in response to temperature. She is also creating biophysical models to predict how numbats and Shark Bay bandicoots will respond to climate change and where these species may be able to be successfully reintroduced under future climate conditions.