Operation Wallacea
Joseph Bailey is a Senior Lecturer in Ecology at Anglia Ruskin University since September 2022 and serves as Chair of the Macroecology Special Interest Group with the British Ecological Society since July 2022. Joseph has extensive experience with Operation Wallacea since April 2015, contributing as a Landscape Ecologist and on the Science Leadership Team in Romania and Croatia, and currently conducting work in Madagascar. Previously, Joseph held positions at York St. John University as a Lecturer in Geography and at the University of Nottingham as a Postdoctoral Researcher, Teaching Associate, and PhD Candidate in biodiversity modelling as part of the NERC-funded GEOBIO project. Additional experience includes working as a Teaching Assistant and a Technical Research Assistant at the University of Nottingham, and serving as News Editor for the Royal Geographical Society from 2014 to 2016. Joseph holds a PhD in Biodiversity Modelling and Conservation, an MSc in Biogeography/Macroecology, and a BSc with Honours in Geography, all from the University of Nottingham.
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Operation Wallacea
Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects that operate in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind - from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes. Large teams of university academics, who are specialists in various aspects of biodiversity or social and economic studies, are concentrated at the target study sites. Research Assistants and dissertation students joining the surveys have the option of customising their own itinerary from a range of training and science options. The surveys result in a large number of publications in peer-reviewed journals each year, have resulted in 30 vertebrate species new to science being discovered, 4 'extinct' species being re-discovered and $2 million levered from funding agencies to set up best practice management examples at the study sites. These large survey teams of academics and volunteers that are funded independently of normal academic sources have enabled large temporal and spatial biodiversity and socio-economic data sets to be produced, and provide information to help with organising effective conservation management programmes.