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For the past nine years, Dr Simon Grove has been a conservation biologist in Forestry Tasmania’s Division of Forest Research and Development in Hobart. He has a PhD in forest ecology from James Cook University, Cairns, and a MSc in forestry from Oxford University. His current research interests encompass beetle biodiversity, birds, fire, "deadwoodology", alternatives to clearfelling, and landscape ecology. He is the author of numerous scientific papers on forestry, forest ecology and conservation.
