Our staff

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Staff profiles

David Cook
Senior Research Officer

David has an extensive background in both horticultural and livestock entomology, and has principally worked on flies. As a Research Assistant Professor with the former Centre for Forensic Science (UWA), he utilised his...

David Ferris
Director, Farming Systems Innovation

Dr Ferris leads the Farming Systems Innovation Directorate that engages 50 staff, working across four interconnected branches of activity: Regional Intelligence and Adoption, Dryland Farming Systems, Systems Modelling...

David Hall
Senior Research Officer

I work to deliver information and skills to DPIRD's clients that will assist them in farming more profitably through improved soil management practices. My current focus is on subsoil constraints to production which...

Dayna Hutchison
Development Officer

Dayna is a Development Officer based in Merredin. As part of the WA Farming Systems Project, her focus is to contribute to the research, development and extension of farming systems innovations that will improve the...

Dean Diepeveen
Research Scientist

Dr Diepeveen is a researcher in the Genetic Improvement program focusing on frost, nitrogen-use and feed grain...

Deb Barker
Technical Officer

Deb is a Technical Officer working in the 'Increasing farming systems profitability and longevity of benefits following soil amelioration' project, an investment of DPIRD and GRDC. Her roles...

Declan McCauley
Research Scientist

Declan is a research scientist based in Manjimup and is responsible for all tree physiology avocado related matters in Western Australia.

Declan had researched various factors around avocados including fungicide...

man in paddock holding wheat plants
Research Scientist

Dr Dion Nicol is the wheat commodity lead at the Department of Primary Industries and...

Donna Foster
Senior Technical Officer

As part of her current duties at DPIRD, Donna provides technical support to the cereal pathology group. She is...

Dorthe Jorgensen
Research Scientist

Dorthe is a Research Scientist at DPIRD working in the area of cereal pathology with focus on genetic improvement of yellow spot resistance in wheat. She phenotypes mapping populations with the purpose of identifying,...

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