Team Leaders - Arachnids
Meet the Team Leaders leading the surveys
Frederik Leck Fischer
Denmark
Frederik Leck Fischer
Frederik graduated from The University of Copenhagen, and his thesis was on crab spider vision and sensory capabilities in the European species Ozyptila praticola and Xysticus cristatus under supervision from the spider taxonomist Nikolaj Scharff, and Sensory physiologist Anders Garm. Nikolaj is doing major revision-work on Arkys species, and Taxonomy of Australasian Malkaridae.
He wrote his bachelor thesis on the taxonomy of Stenopelmatoidea orthopterans, which included many Australian taxa (King crickets, Cooloola monsters and similar).
Greg Anderson
Co-author of A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia
Ethan Yeoman
Brisbane based Citizen Scientist and spider enthusiast.
Meet the team behind the event
Lindy Orwin
PhD
Event Coordinator
Randy Orwin
B.Ed. M.Sc.
Tech and Data Curation
Xadia Kirby
Bachelor of Animal Ecology
Volunteer Helper