David is a PhD student in the Quantitative & Applied Ecology Group at the University of Melbourne. His project involves a comparison of proposed occupancy metric-based Joint Species Distribution Models (JSDM), and the development of extensions to the JSDM framework to account for factors such as imperfect detection and correlation of detections.

His MSc was completed at the University of Melbourne in 2015 and involved the development of a single species occupancy model for the giant gecko, Cyrtodactylus sadlieri, on Christmas Island to be used in the implementation of a reptile-specific monitoring program