Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Life Sciences

Department of Environmental Management & Ecology

	Dr Dennis Black
	Lecturer
	PO Box 821, Wodonga VIC 3689
	Tel: (02) 6024 9873
	Fax: (02) 6024 9888
	Email: d.black@latrobe.edu.au

Dr Dennis Black

Dennis Black's current research efforts include taxonomic revisions of several millipede families and preparation of an illustrated key to the twenty families present in Australia, as well as studies of invertebrate recolonization of the Krakatau Islands. Student supervision has involved projects in the general field of ecology of cryptozoa. Dr Black has an unusually wide background in field zoology, with extensive knowledge of collecting and survey methods. He has also had wide-ranging experience with museum curatorial techniques involving both invertebrates and vertebrates.

Research interests:
Arthropod systematics, especially Diplopoda
Ecology of cryptozoa
Brain morphology, ecology and behaviour of lizards
 

Dr Dennis Black received most of his tertiary training from the Davis Campus of the University of California, including two BSc's (Biological Science and Entomology), a Secondary Teaching Credential and a PhD in Systematic Entomology (1994). He also has an MSc. in Zoology from Monash University (1983). Before commencing his academic teaching career at La Trobe University in 1990, he worked as a high school science teacher in California and Victoria, spent ten years in zoology technical positions at Monash and UPNG and did consultancy work involving vertebrate surveys.