Dan Parsons 2/8/25 Dan Parsons 2/8/25

Beyond the Snarge: Reporting more than just strikes

This website has been pretty quiet for a long time. And while I would love to say that it is because I’ve been working hard on my PhD research project, it has been more about me just working hard at my day job (which, to be fair, is pretty exciting and challenging). But it feels great to share that I’ve made a little progress of late with the formal publication of my project’s literature review - A Review of Wildlife Strike Reporting in Aviation: Systems, Uses and Standards.

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Dan Parsons 21/7/23 Dan Parsons 21/7/23

Hidden within the Data: Wildlife Strike Costs in Australia

From time to time, I like to write about wildlife-strike-related research. In my wrap-up of last September’s AAWHG Forum, I hinted at a presentation I delivered on wildlife strike costs in Australia and promised that more details were coming soon. Well, today is soon! A couple of nights ago, my first ever peer-reviewed academic journal article was published*, and it has the very scientific-sounding title of “Estimating the Cost of Wildlife Strikes in Australian Aviation Using Random Forest Modeling.”

Dan Parsons 23/9/22 Dan Parsons 23/9/22

Hashtag AAWHG 2022 Forum

Now that I’ve had a week to come down from an enormous couple of days at the Australian Aviation Wildlife Hazard Group’s (AAWHG) 2022 Forum, I thought I would share some of my highlights . The AAWHG Forum is the biennial migration of all manner of wildlife hazard management practitioners, researchers, consultants and stakeholders into a select location to discuss, present and chat about anything that relates to the intersection of aircraft and wildlife. But I haven’t the time to give you all a play by play. Instead, I’d like to share some of my bigger “take aways” and one big criticism.

Dan Parsons 13/9/22 Dan Parsons 13/9/22

Phase 1 is a Go! Calling all WHM Experts

Apologies for the blog being a little quiet and a little one side of late but I have been working pretty hard behind the scenes to get my PhD up to this point. And now, I can say that we are a go.

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