QED Field Notes · Quarterly

Dispatches from the field season.

An eastern quoll, fawn morph, on grass at dusk.

Issue 38 · 12 May 2026

12 Northern Quolls made it to Pobassoo Island. Now we wait.

By Wesley Tanaka-Burns · 6 min read

The wet finished early, three troop-carriers went in, and twelve quolls crossed to a toad-free island. A translocation is a hypothesis with fur on it.

Issue 37 · 20 February 2026

What the 2025 wet season did to the Mitchell Plateau population.

The second-wettest season on our record compressed the field season at both ends. The core population held; recruitment did not.

Issue 36 · 14 November 2025

Why we paused the Bruny Island bridge program for six months.

Two of four rope bridges were carrying almost no traffic. Rather than build a fifth and hope, we stopped and found out why.

Issue 35 · 8 August 2025

Den box build days: a year-one retrospective.

412 boxes across 22 local government areas. A box buys time; it does not replace a hollow. What year one taught us.

Issue 34 · 16 May 2025

On naming individuals: the case against, and what we do anyway.

The code is what the science runs on. The name is how a reader two thousand kilometres away comes to care. We have concluded we need both.