Professor Kingsley Dixon’s investigation of Australian plant species has set him on a journey that has seen him awarded the title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.
News stories about fish often focus either on large fish like sharks, or on tasty seafood. So it might come as a surprise that more than half of the fish on coral reefs are tiny and well camouflaged.
A survey into the identification of many rare and endangered invertebrate animals on Barrow Island has seen Curtin entomologists’ work celebrated by having a number of species named after them.