Oliver C. Stringham
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Adelaide, Australia
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2014 – 2018 | PhD in Ecology and Evolution, Rutgers University |
2010 – 2014 | BS in Environmental Science BS in Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Certificate in Environmental Geomatics (GIS) Rutgers University |
Underline denotes my co-supervised graduate students
17. | Watters, F., Stringham, O.C., Shepherd, C.R., Cassey, P. (submitted) The demand for wildlife not protected by the CITES multilateral treaty. Preprint |
16. | Toomes, A., García-Díaz, P., Stringham O.C., Ross, J.V., Mitchell, L., Cassey, P. (2022) Drivers of the live pet trade: the role of species traits, socioeconomic attributes and regulatory systems. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14138 |
15. | Fukushima, C.S., Tricorache, P., Toomes, A., Stringham, O.C., Rivera-Téllez, E., Ripple, W.J., Peters, G., Orenstein, R.I., Morcatty, T.Q., Longhorn, S.J., Lee, C., Kumschick, S., de Freitas, M.A., Duffy, R.V., Davies, A., Cheung, H., Cheyne, S.M., Bouhuys, J., Barreiros, J.P., Amponsah-Mensah, K., Cardoso, P. (2021) Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade. Biological Conservation. Open Access Text |
14. | Cardoso, P., Amponsah-Mensah, K., Barreiros, J.P., Bouhuys, J., Cheung, H., Davies, A., Kumschick, S., Longhorn, S.J., Martínez-Munoz, C.A., Morcatty, T.Q., Peters, G., Ripple, W.J., Rivera-Téllez, E., Stringham, O.C., Toomes, A., Tricorache, P., Fukushima, C.S. (2021) Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade. Biological Conservation. Open Access Text |
13. | Stringham O.C., Moncayo, S., Thomas, E., Heinrich, S., Toomes, A., Maher, J., Hill, K.G.W., Mitchell, L., Ross, J.V., Shepherd, C.R., Cassey, P. (2021) Dataset of seized wildlife and their intended uses. Data in Brief. Open Access Text |
12. | Stringham O.C., García-Díaz, P., Toomes, A., Ross, J.V., Mitchell, L., Cassey, P. (2021) Reptile smuggling is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade. Conservation Letters. Open Access Text |
11. | Stringham O.C., Moncayo, S., Hill, K.G.W., Toomes, A., Ross, J.V., Mitchell, L., Cassey, P. (2021) Text classification to streamline online wildlife trade analyses. PLOS ONE. Open Access Text |
10. | Heinrich, S., Toomes, A., Shepherd, C.R., Stringham, O.C., Swan, M., Cassey, P. (2021) Strengthening protection of endemic wildlife threatened by the international pet trade: the case of the Australian shingleback lizard. Animal Conservation. PDF |
9. | Sinclair, J., Stringham, O.C., Udell, B., Mandrak, N., Leung, B., Romagosa, C.M., Lockwood J.L. (2021). The international vertebrate pet trade network: data synthesis and a case study of US imports of pet amphibians, birds, fishes, mammals and reptiles. BioScience. Open Access Text |
8. | Stringham, O.C. & Lockwood, J.L. (2021). Managing propagule pressure to prevent invasive species establishments: Propagule size, number, and risk–release curve. Ecological Applications. PDF |
7. | Stringham O.C., Toomes, A., Kanishka, A., Heinrich, S., Ross, J.V., Mitchell, L., Cassey, P. (2020). A guide to using the internet to study the wildlife trade. Conservation Biology. PDF |
6. | Toomes, A., Stringham, O.C., Ross, J.V., Mitchell, L., Cassey, P. (2020). Australia’s wish list of exotic pets: biosecurity and conservation implications of desired exotic pet species. NeoBiota. Open Access Text |
5. | Lockwood, J.L., Welbourne, D., Romagosa, C., Cassey, P., Mandrak, N., Strecker, A., Leung, B., Stringham, O.C., Udell, B., Episcopio-Sturgeon, D., Tlusty, M., Sinclair, J., Springborn, M., Pienaar, E., Rhyne, A. (2019). When Pets Become Pests: The Role of the Exotic Pet Trade in Producing Invasive Vertebrate Animals. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. PDF |
4. | Stringham, O.C. & Lockwood, J.L. (2018). Pet problems: Biological and economic factors that influence the release of alien reptiles and amphibians by pet owners. Journal of Applied Ecology. PDF |
3. | Maslo, B., Stringham, O. C., Bevan, A. J., Brumbaugh, A. Sanders, C. Hall, M. & Fefferman, N. H. (2017). High annual survival in infected wildlife populations may veil a persistent extinction risk from disease. Ecosphere. PDF |
2. | Robinson, O. J., Lockwood, J. L., Stringham, O. C., & Fefferman, N. H. (2015). A novel tool for making policy recommendations based on PVA: helping theory become practice. Conservation Letters. PDF |
1. | Stringham, O. C., & Robinson, O. J. (2015). A modeling methodology to evaluate the efficacy of predator exclosures versus predator control. Animal Conservation. PDF |
Underline denotes my co-supervised graduate students
5. | Stringham, O.C., Chekunov, S., Toomes, A., Cassey, P., Heinrich, S. (2021). Response to the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment on their ‘Proposed amendments to the Appendices of CITES for Australian Native Reptiles’. PDF |
4. | Hill, K., Cassey P. Stringham, O.C., Toomes, A. (2020). Response to the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment on their ‘Import risk review for psittacine birds from all countries’. PDF |
3. | Cassey, P., Wittmann, T., Toomes, A., Stringham, O.C. (2020). Illegal Wildlife Trade: A Threat To Environmental Biosecurity, Biodiversity, Human Health and Wellbeing. Center for Invasive Species Solutions & University of Adelaide, Australia. PDF |
2. | Boicourt, K., Pirani R., Johnson, M., Svendsen, E., Campbell, L. (2016) Connecting with Our Waterways: Public Access and Its Stewardship in the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary. New York – New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program, Hudson River Foundation. New York, NY. [Stringham, O.C. as GIS Specialist]. PDF |
1. | Van Abs, D.J., Stringham, O.C., Gao, Y., Evans, T. (2014). Effects of Land Development on Water Resources of the Pinelands Region. Prepared for New Jersey Future. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ. PDF |
2018 | Ornithology & Lab. Instructor (1 semester), Rutgers University |
2018 | Plant Ecology, Guest Lecturer, Rutgers University |
2017 – 2018 | Ornithology. Guest Lecturer (2 lectures), Rutgers University |
2017 | Seminar in Invasion Ecology. Guest Lecturer, Rutgers University |
2014 | Evolution, Disease, and Medicine. Guest Lecturer, Rutgers University |
2018 | Plant Ecology, Teaching Assistant (1 semester), Rutgers University |
2017 – 2018 | Ornithology. Teaching Assistant (2 semesters), Rutgers University |
2016 | Concepts in Biology Lab. Teaching Assistant (1 semester), Rutgers University |
2015 – 2017 | General Biology. Teaching Assistant (6 semesters), Rutgers University |
Conference presentations
2022 | “The pet trade of native species outside of their natural distributions in Australia” Stringham OC, Moncayo S, Hill, KGW, Toomes A, Mitchell L, Ross J, Cassey P. Australian Biosecurity Symposium. Gold Coast, Australia. |
2021 | “Reptile smuggling into Australia is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade” Stringham OC, Toomes A, Mitchell L, Ross J, Cassey P. Australasian Vertebrate Pest Conference (AVPC). Melbourne, Australia (Virtual). |
2020 | “Monitoring internet sales of wildlife to detect illegal trade” Stringham OC, Toomes A, Mitchell L, Ross J, Cassey P. Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators neTwork (AELERT) and the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) Conference, Adelaide, Australia. |
2018 | “Incorporating propagule pressure into invasion risk assessment” Stringham OC & Lockwood JL. North American Congress for Conservation Biology. Toronto, Canada. |
2017 | “Predicting long-term dynamics of Indiana bat populations infected with white-nose syndrome” Maslo B, Stringham OC, Bevan A,Brumbaugh A, Sanders C, Hall M, Fefferman N. Ecological Society of America. Portland, OR, USA. |
2017 | “Pet problems: Factors that influence releases of exotic pet reptiles and amphibians” Stringham OC & Lockwood JL. Ecological Society of America. Portland, OR, USA. |
Invited talks
2022 | “Internet Surveillance of Wildlife Trade”. Stringham OC & Cassey P. Presentation for Belgium Wildlife Inspectors, a workshop held by the Invasive Alien Species National Scientific Secretariat of Belgium. Brussels, Belgium (Virtual). |
2021 | “Internet Surveillance of Wildlife Trade: Understanding and intervening in illegal trade in non-native species”. Stringham OC & Cassey P. Presentation for the Environment and Invasives Committee (EIC): (i) Terrestrial Vertebrate, (ii) Terrestrial Invertebrate, and (iii) Freshwater Vertebrate and Invertebrate Working Groups. Australia. (Virtual). |
2020 | “The wildlife trade in relation to ecotourism”. Stringham OC & Cassey P. Perspectives in science-based ecotourism: mini conference. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2020 | “Invasion Science and Wildlife Ecology Introduction” Stringham OC, Cassey P, Toomes A, Maher JA. Australian Institute for Machine Learning. Adelaide, Australia. |
2019 | “The wildlife trade as a driver of biodiversity loss and source of invasive species”. Stringham OC & Cassey P. Perspectives in science-based ecotourism: mini conference. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2019 | “Understanding the processes leading up to establishment of non-native species”. Stringham OC. Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) Seminar. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2018 | “Preventing biological invasions by understanding the processes leading to establishment”. Stringham OC. PhD Defense Seminar for Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. |
2017 | “Get your herps here! Dynamics of reptile and amphibian exotic pet trade and what that means for invasive species management” Stringham OC & Lockwood JL. Rutgers Ecology Graduate Student Association Seminar. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. |
2017 | “Exploration of the spatial and temporal dynamics of the reptile and amphibian pet trade” Stringham OC. 7th Annual Rutgers GIS Day. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. |
2016 | “Factors associated with non-native introductions of pet reptiles and amphibians” Stringham OC & Lockwood JL. Rutgers Ecology Graduate Student Association Seminar. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. |
2014 | “Determining the efficacy of predator exclosures vs. predator control: a modeling case study of the red fox and piping plover in New Jersey” Stringham OC, Robinson OJ & Lockwood JL. G.H. Cook Undergraduate Honors Thesis Presentation. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. |
Informal presentations
2022 | “For loops in R”. Stringham OC. Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Lab. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2021 | “Scientific Writing Workshops”. Stringham OC. Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Lab. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2021 | “Coding GIS in R”. Stringham OC. Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Lab. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2021 | “Data wrangling in R with tidyverse”. Stringham OC. Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Lab. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2020 | “Plotting in R using ggplot2”. Stringham OC. Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Lab. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2019 | “Creating a website for academia”. Stringham OC. Invasion Science & Wildlife Ecology Lab. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
2020 | Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Drivers of the Live Pet Trade in Australian Reptiles. (Contributor). A/Prof Phillip Cassey - Chief Investigator. ($420,851) |
2018 | Teaching Assistant/Graduate Assistant Professional Development Grant. Rutgers University. ($752) |
2017 | Teaching Assistant/Graduate Assistant Professional Development Grant. Rutgers University. ($925) |
2017 | Conference Travel Award. Rutgers University. ($150) |
2014 | Environmental Science Senior of the Year, Rutgers University |
2014 | Outstanding Senior in Environmental Geomatics (GIS), Rutgers University |
PhD Candidates
2020 – | Freyja Watters, PhD Candidate, The University of Adelaide, Co-supervisor. Topic: The unregulated trade of wildlife: exploring the dynamics of the wildlife trade of species not recognized by CITES |
2020 – | Jacob Maher, PhD Candidate, The University of Adelaide. Co-supervisor. Topic: The ornamental plant trade in Australia: conservation and biosecurity implications. |
2020 – | Katherine Hill, PhD Candidate, The University of Adelaide. Co-supervisor. Topic: The trade of native Australian parrots as pets. |
2019 – | Adam Toomes, PhD Candidate, The University of Adelaide. Co-advisor. Topic: The biosecurity risks of the Australian illegal pet trade. |
Honours/Undergraduates
2021 | Charlie Lassaline, Honours Student, The University of Adelaide. Co-advisor. Topic: The online trade of invertebrates as pets in Australia. |
2020 | Jade Birmingham, Honours Student, The University of Adelaide. Co-advisor. Topic: Survivorship during international plane travel of exotic pet species: implications for animal welfare. |
2019 | Abilash Sivadasan, Honours Student, The University of Adelaide. Co-advisor. Topic: Does illegal smuggling of wildlife scale to measures of population density in Australia? |
2017 – 2018 | Katharine Mattaliano, Undergraduate Research, Rutgers University. Topic: Domestic breeding of exotic pets: a risk for biological invasions. |
2017 – 2018 | Jacqueline Cavaliere, Undergraduate Research, Rutgers University. Topic: Legal frameworks for releases of exotic pets in the USA. |
2016 – 2017 | Jacey Corrente, Undergraduate Research, Rutgers University. Topic: The secondary market of exotic pet reptiles and amphibians: why do people relinquish their exotic pets? |
2015 | Elizabeth Newton, Undergraduate Senior Thesis, Rutgers University. Topic: Sustainable harvest model of black bears in New Jersey: maintaining the cultural carrying capacity. |
Peer reviewer | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Conservation Letters, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Conservation Science and Practice, Global Ecology and Conservation, Ecography, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Communications Biology, Biological Invasions, Journal for Nature Conservation, Management of Biological Invasions, Animals, Urban Naturalist |
2019 | Illegal Wildlife Trade Workshop & Working Group. Environmental Biosecurity Office, Canberra, Australia. |
2017 – 2018 | National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Participant. Project: “Linking Trade, Biology, and Pet Owner Decisions to the Risk of Vertebrate Invasions in the US” |
2021 | Leadership Development Training. Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide, Australia |
2017 | COMPASS: Science Communication Training. Rutgers University |
2016 | AAAS: Communicating Science Workshop. Rutgers University |
2015 | Research Assistant, Endangered & Nongame Species Program, New Jersey Department of Fish & Wildlife |
2015 | GIS Research Assistant, Harbor & Estuary Program, Hudson River Foundation |
2014 – 2015 | Research Assistant, Rutgers University, Department of Human Ecology |