Albert George Orr is an Australian entomologist. [1]
Albert Orr was born in 1953 in Maleny, Queensland. [2] He studied mathematics and entomology at Queensland University and graduated in 1974. [1] [2] He received a PhD from Griffith University in 1988 for work on mating in butterflies. [3] From 1990 worked for 10 years at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and from 2000, he has been an honorary research fellow at Griffith University. [1] [2]
In 2003, he published A Guide to the Dragonflies of Borneo, for which he received the Worldwide Dragonfly Association’s 2005 award for outstanding achievements and contributions to the science of odonatology. [2] [1] [4] This book was the first comprehensive guide to the dragonflies of the region. [5]
He and co-author Vincent J. Kalkman were awarded the 2013 Whitley Medal by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for Field Guide to the damselflies of New Guinea. [6] [2] In 2011 he was awarded a Whitley Certificate of Commendation for The Butterflies of Australia. [2] The Butterflies of Australia received a favourable review i Austral Ecology for being accessible to a less specialist audience, but still providing a large amount of quality scientific insights, and thereby being an excellent complement to Michael Braby's encyclopaedic and definitive Butterflies of Australia. [7] Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia (second edition), illustrated by Orr, was called an ”invaluable resource” in the Royal Entomological Society’s Review. [8]
He has published four more guides to dragonflies and damselflies of Asia, as the sole author in collaboration with other entomologists. He has been the editor of The Australian Entomologist. [2] [1] [9]
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Albert George Orr is an Australian entomologist. [1]
Albert Orr was born in 1953 in Maleny, Queensland. [2] He studied mathematics and entomology at Queensland University and graduated in 1974. [1] [2] He received a PhD from Griffith University in 1988 for work on mating in butterflies. [3] From 1990 worked for 10 years at Universiti Brunei Darussalam, and from 2000, he has been an honorary research fellow at Griffith University. [1] [2]
In 2003, he published A Guide to the Dragonflies of Borneo, for which he received the Worldwide Dragonfly Association’s 2005 award for outstanding achievements and contributions to the science of odonatology. [2] [1] [4] This book was the first comprehensive guide to the dragonflies of the region. [5]
He and co-author Vincent J. Kalkman were awarded the 2013 Whitley Medal by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for Field Guide to the damselflies of New Guinea. [6] [2] In 2011 he was awarded a Whitley Certificate of Commendation for The Butterflies of Australia. [2] The Butterflies of Australia received a favourable review i Austral Ecology for being accessible to a less specialist audience, but still providing a large amount of quality scientific insights, and thereby being an excellent complement to Michael Braby's encyclopaedic and definitive Butterflies of Australia. [7] Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia (second edition), illustrated by Orr, was called an ”invaluable resource” in the Royal Entomological Society’s Review. [8]
He has published four more guides to dragonflies and damselflies of Asia, as the sole author in collaboration with other entomologists. He has been the editor of The Australian Entomologist. [2] [1] [9]
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