Technical Officer for the Gilbert’s Potoroo Recovery Program

• Gilbert’s Potoroos - ecology, translocation, conservation.
• Fauna monitoring, radio-tracking, hair arching and hair analyses.
• Captive Breeding of Gilbert's potoroos and western barred bandicoots.
• Wildlife rehabilitation

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor of Science (Hons), Majors: Biology and Marine Science with a stream in Conservation Biology. Murdoch University. 2002

Associate Diploma of Applied Science. TAFE. 1995

Advanced Certificate in Applied Science. TAFE. 1994

Volunteer Work

1996-2003 Volunteer at Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre: wildlife rehabilitation and western barred bandicoot program.

2002 Radio-tracking Gilbert's Potoroos, Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve.

1999, 2001 Radio-tracking Dibblers in Fitzgerald River National Park.

Work

2002-2003 technical Officer, Threatened Flora Seed Centre, CALM.

2000-2003 Visitor interpretations Officer at Yanchep National Park.

Monitoring wild and translocated populations of Gilbert’s potoroos.

(13 items)

2008

Woolford L, O'Hara AJ, Bennett MD, Slaven M, Swan R, Friend JA et al. [Sims C, Hill S] (2008). Cutaneous papillomatosis and carcinomatosis in the western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville). Veterinary Pathology 45, pp. 95–103

2007

Friend JA, Button TA, Hills SDE (2007). The quokkas of Bald Island: population biology and spatial organisation (ABSTRACT). p. 24

2006

Cochrane A, Friend T, Hill S (2006). Small mammals as seed dispersers. Australasian Plant Conservation 15(2), pp. 19–21

O’Hara AJ, Woolford L, Rector A, Ducki A, Bennett MD, Warren KS et al. [Sims C, Hill S, Friend JA] (2006). Cutaneous papillomatosis and carcinomatosis in the highly endangered western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) is associated with a novel papillomavirus (ABSTRACT). In American College of Veterinary Pathologists Annual Meeting, December 2-6, 2006, Tuscon, Arizona p. 1

2005

Cochrane JA, Friend JA, Hill SJE (2005). Endozoochory and the Australian bluebell: consumption of Sollya fusiformis seed by mammals at Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia (ABSTRACT). In Australian Mammal Society: 51st Scientific Meeting Program and Abstracts: Albany, Western Australia, 4-8 July 2005 (comps K Morris, J Smith, T Friend et al.). Australian Mammal Society, Perth. p. 28

Cochrane JA, Friend JA, Hill SJE (2005). Endozoochory and the Australian bluebell: consumption of Sollya fusiformis seed by mammals at Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia (POSTER ABSTRACT). p. 38

Cochrane JA, Friend JA, Hill SJE (2005). Endozoochory and the Australian bluebell: consumption of Billardiera fusiformis (Labill.) Payer (Pittosoraceae) seeds by three mammal species at Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 88, pp. 191–196

Friend JA, Hill SJE, Button TA (2005). Trial translocation of Gilbert's potoroo to Bald Island, Western Australia (ABSTRACT). In Australian Mammal Society: 51st Scientific Meeting Program and Abstracts: Albany, Western Australia, 4-8 July 2005 (comps K Morris, J Smith, T Friend et al.). Australian Mammal Society, Perth. p. 9

Friend JA, Hill SJE, Button TA (2005). Trial translocation of Gilbert's potoroo to Bald Island, Western Australia (ABSTRACT). p. 20

Friend T, Hill S, Button T (2005). Bald Island getaway for Gilbert's potoroos. Landscope 21(1), pp. 48–54

Hill S (2005). Historical occurrence of a wart-like syndrome affecting western barred bandicoots (POSTER ABSTRACT). p. 40

Hill S (2005). Historical occurrence of a wart-like syndrome affecting western barred bandicoots (ABSTRACT). In Australian Mammal Society: 51st Scientific Meeting Program and Abstracts: Albany, Western Australia, 4-8 July 2005 (comps K Morris, J Smith, T Friend et al.). Australian Mammal Society, Perth. p. 31

Warren K, Swan R, Bodetti T, Friend T, Hill S, Timms P (2005). Ocular Chlamydiales infections of western barred bandicoots (Perameles bougainville) in Western Australia. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 36, pp. 100–102