Bee Aware Brisbane People
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Dr Tobias Smith - Founder and Director
Tobias is an ecologist and native bee researcher, and currently works in a range of different bee-related positions, including the Rader Ecology Lab at The University of New England, Sugarbag Bees and Bee Aware Kids. Tobias's research interests are focused mainly on bee communities in human-dominated landscapes and on the use of native bees as pollinators in crops. Tobias first became interested in bees as a child, and during PhD study at the University of Queensland became passionate about community education on bees, ecology, and biodiversity. Tobias is also a native stingless bee keeper, and keeps hives around Brisbane and in northern NSW. Tobias tweets as @EcologyToby and @BeeAwareAus |
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Tori Reynolds Tori is a pollination ecologist at the University of Queensland and joined the Bee Aware Brisbane team in 2015. Tori works alongside Tobias as an outreach officer, helping to run workshops, talks and educational activities to local schools and community groups around Brisbane. Tori's research interests focus on pollination networks in agroecosystems, in particular she is interested in identifying the role of wild pollinators to native plant communities in highly fragmented agricultural landscapes. Check out what Tori is up to on Twitter @toriireynolds Sofia Lopez
Sofia is a PhD student at the University of Queensland, and her research interests are in the fields of conservation biology and crop pollination. Sofia's PhD aims to use optimisation models to understand the balance for protecting forest and pollination services. In her previous research, Sofia has investigated the effects of elevated carbon dioxide on flowering traits of horticultural plants. Sofia is also one of the founders the Collaborative Hive blog, and you can find her on twitter as @SofiaLop11 Loy Xingwen Loy was previously a pollination ecologist at the University of Queensland, and Bee Aware Brisbane's in-house artist. Loy joined Bee Aware Brisbane in early 2014, starting out drawing our colouring worksheets for K–2 school workshops. Loy has since created a range of info-graphics and drawings to help us communicate information on native bees and pollinators to a wide audience. Loy's research interests focus primarily on pollination networks in annual wildflower communities. Check out Loy's research blog here. Loy is now a PhD student at Emory University in the US. Loy tweets as @LoyXecology |
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Native bees for schools - School incursions - Native bee workshops for schools - Bee education
Buy hives - Queensland - New South Wales
Brisbane - Gold Coast - Byron Bay