Rate My Professor Michael McCarthy

McCarthy's career includes post-doctoral fellowships at the Australian National University, the University of Adelaide, and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He previously served at the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, progressed to Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne from 2007 to 2013, and now holds a full professorship. He was Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and a leading researcher in the National Environmental Research Program Environmental Decisions Hub. As a principal researcher in the Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group, he contributes to advancing applied ecology. In 2008, he received the Fenner Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. Key publications include his book Bayesian Methods for Ecology (Cambridge University Press, 2007; translated into Japanese in 2009), co-editorship of Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies (Oxford University Press, 2004), and Wildlife, Fire & Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis (CSIRO Publishing, 2002). Highly cited works feature Redefine statistical significance (Nature Human Behaviour, 2018), Is my species distribution model fit for purpose? (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2015), Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2014), Scientific foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (PLoS ONE, 2013), and Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene (Science, 2020). With over 20,000 citations, his contributions have profoundly influenced quantitative methods in ecology and conservation biology.