Dr Claire Moore

My interest in Geospatial information systems arose after working in the field of wildlife triage and treatment in bushfires grounds across South Australia. Having arrived from the UK in 2006 as a veterinarian, the differences between the more intensive spatial epidemiology of a small highly populated island, and even the diseases I was treating in domestic animals and wildlife were huge.

My interest led to a Conservation Medicine degree, where I studied principles of One Health and how the environment, animal and human health all interact and what diseases we can share (I love a smart zoonosis). After that, the importance of the spatial distributions of the epidemiological triad became obvious and, since vets weren't taught that, I did the Masters in GIS here in Flinders.

Since then I have been part of the enthusiastic 'everyone should recognise the importance of space in their discipline' team and love spreading the word about spatial patterns, overlaps and influences on not just animals, but groundwater, coastal change, vegetation, and even paleontology. 

I still work a day a week at Cleland Wildlife Park and that fulfills my veterinary urges to talk to the animals.