About me.Rmd

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title: "About me"
author: "Andrew Bengsen"
date: "17/05/2020"
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## Andrew Bengsen  
### Wildlife Ecologist  

My work is all about helping people to protect natural resources, agricultural production and human health through the effective management of overabundant mammal populations.  

Poor or ineffective management wastes opportunity, time, money, energy, animal lives, and social licence. Often, small changes to established practice can make big differences to outcomes. This is what gets me out of bed in the morning (often way too early).   

I use robust study design, powerful data analysis, and strong logical and critcal thinking to provide reliable information in a way that empowers people to make good, science-based wildlife management decisions and get the results they need.  

I'm currently focusing on developing and testing optimal disease surveillance and response strategies for emergency animal disease incursions in wild host populations. I'm also continuing work on feral ungulate management and survey.  

I also enjoy working with human behaviour researchers to understand how we can remove barriers to effective management and provide resources and conditions that promote great outcomes.  

I love challenging assumptions and I'm always happy to have my prior beliefs updated.  

[MY PUBLICATIONS](https://andrewbengsen.github.io/Publications.html)  
[RECENT PRESENTATIONS](https://andrewbengsen.github.io/Presentations.html)  
[RESOURCES](https://andrewbengsen.github.io/Resources.html)