| Matthew Kerr |
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Mr Matt Kerr
Technical Assistant
Pest Monitoring |
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| Matt joined the Unit in 1997 as part of the papaya
fruit fly monitoring team. In mid 1997 he took over the examination of
sticky traps for Western Flower Thrips monitoring in cut flower nurseries.
He is also involved in the exotic fruit fly monitoring program and examination
of export bees to ensure freedom from parasitic mite diseases. |
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| Michelle Rossetto |
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Ms Michelle Rossetto
Technical Assistant
Pest Monitoring
(part time) |
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| Michelle joined the ASCU pest monitoring team
in 2002, working three days per week during the summer months. Her focus
is exotic fruit fly monitoring and she also sorts monitoring samples trapped
following mass release of sterile fruit flies. Michelle is a local grower,
the Rossetto family producing cherries of outstanding quality. |
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| Rosy Kerslake |
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Rosy Kerslake
Technical Assistant
Pest Monitoring
(part time) |
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| Rosy joined the unit in 2002 as part of the fruit fly monitoring team
and now identifies fruit flies, ants and western flower thrips. Rosy is
a trained high school mathematics teacher and has taught in schools all
over NSW. She has also worked as a Bank Customer Service Officer. She enjoys
the monitoring work because flies don't answer back like school students
and bank customers. |
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| Carmen King |
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Ms Carmen King
Technical Officer
Pest Monitoring
(part time) |
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| Carmen joined ASCU in 2002 as part of the databasing team funded by
the APPD data capture program. When her contract time was completed, Carmen
transferred to the monitoring group working within ASCU and Head Office
managing red imported fire ant data and identifying samples extracted from
beehives as suspected small hive beetles. |
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