Sigrid began her career in Germany working on the population dynamics of pest rodents to develop a model to simulate their population growth for an efficient application of control methods. Her research focused also on the investigation of methods to reduce reproduction of pest rodents by using species-specific pheromones. During post-doctoral fellowships, granted to her by the German Academic Exchange Service and the European Union, Sigrid worked in England and Belgium on the chemical communication of vertebrates in combination with aspects of the spread of rodent borne zoonoses.<\/p>\n
Sigrid immigrated to Australia in 1998 and became involved in feral pig management in the tropical lowland rainforest of the Daintree Coast in NE Queensland, and in the conservation of threatened lowland rainforest types while working for the Bush Heritage Australia.<\/p>\n
From 2006 to 2009 she had been Associate Lecturer at the Institute for Geobotany of the Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany and the Department of Vegetation Ecology of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, where she lectured on the geology, biogeography, vegetation and conservation of Australia\u2019s ecosystems and conducted field excursions of German students across Australia. This also involved the organization and supervision of research projects on nature conservation aspects of Australia for Bachelor-, Master- and Diploma degrees of German students.<\/p>\n
In 2008 she started her position as a lecturer for rainforest ecology at the Centre for Rainforest Studies at The School for Field Studies, and in 2014 she received a professorship of The School for Field Studies.<\/p>\n
In 2019, she was a recipient of the Cassowary Award, given annually by the Wet Tropics Management Authority for outstanding conservation work. She received the award for Local Government and Industry Initiative alongside the Department of Environment and Science. <\/p>\n
Sigrid is active member of various community conservation groups and governmental environmental advisory groups. Her research is focused on gathering information that supports community and governmentally based conservation projects such as restoration of rainforests, colonization of restored rainforest by wildlife, identification of locations for wildlife road crossings, erosion prevention and roadside vegetation management. She works closely with local wildlife caretakers to study the behavior of orphaned tree-kangaroos for tailored pre-release training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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