Professor Patrick O'Connor AM

Professor Patrick O'Connor AM
 Position Director
 Org Unit Centre for Global Food and Resources
 Email patrick.oconnor@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone 831 31039
 Location Floor/Room 6 ,  Nexus 10 ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Patrick O'Connor has a background in research and consulting in natural resource management science and program evaluation. Patrick is also Managing Director of the consulting company O’Connor NRM  and holds a Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Fellowship at the Institute of Urban Environments, Xiamen, China. Patrick’s consulting and research work focusses on the design, creation, implementation and evaluation of markets for ecosystem services. Patrick works on projects aimed at overcoming negative environmental externalities from agricultural production systems and has created markets for the conservation of soil and biodiversity and for carbon sequestration. Patrick undertakes research on the design of novel contracts for land management, and toward understanding of price-setting behaviors of landholders supplying ecosystem services. Patrick also works in program evaluation, designing and implementing evaluations to improve program decisions or demonstrate policy and program impact. 

     

    Patrick has an additional interest in the application of applied linguistics to scientific writing and is co-author of the successful book 'Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps' which sets out a genre-based approach to training scientists to write research papers. 

  • Awards & Achievements

    Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Fellowship (2016)

    Premier's Natural Resource Management Award - 'Big Picture' (Finalist - 2013)

    South Australian Spatial Excellence Award – BushBids Biodiversity Auction (Winner - 2007)

    South Australian Landcare Award - BushBids Biodiversity Auction (Finalist - 2007)

  • Research Interests

    Ecosystem service markets including biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, soil management and pollination

    Monitoring and evaluation of agro-ecosystem services focussing on ecosystem health and biodiversity

    Evaluation of natural resource management policy and program impact

  • Publications
    Citation

    2019

    		 Ding, J., Zhu, D., Li, H., Ding, K., Chen, Q., Lassen, S., . . . Zhu, Y. (2019). The gut microbiota of soil organisms show species-specific responses to liming. Science of the Total Environment, 659, 715-723.
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    2019 Wang, H., Zhu, D., Li, G., Zheng, F., Ding, J., O'Connor, P., . . . Xue, X. (2019). Effects of Arsenic on Gut Microbiota and Its Biotransformation Genes in Earthworm Metaphire sieboldi. Environmental Science and Technology, 53(7), 3841-3849.
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    2019 Li, Y., & O'Connor, P. (2019). "Scientific writing for impact is a learned skill-it can be enhanced with training": An interview with patrick o'connor. Publications, 7(1).
    2019 Ma, J., Zhu, D., Sheng, G., O'Connor, P., & Zhu, Y. (2019). Soil oxytetracycline exposure alters the microbial community and enhances the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in the gut of Enchytraeus crypticus. Science of the Total Environment, 673, 357-366.
     
    2019 Bond, A., O'Connor, P., & Cavagnaro, T. (2019). Remnant woodland biodiversity gains under 10 years of revealed-price incentive payments. Journal of Applied Ecology.
     
    2018 Cargill, M., Gao, X., Wang, X., & O'Connor, P. (2018). Preparing Chinese graduate students of science facing an international publication requirement for graduation: Adapting an intensive workshop approach for early-candidature use. English for Specific Purposes, 52, 13-26.
    2018 O'Connor, P., & Cargill, M. (2018). Better Scientific Writing Does Not Need Linguistic Alchemy: Response to Doubleday and Connell 2017. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33(11), 813-814.
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    2018 Rolfe, J., Schilizzi, S., Boxall, P., Latacz-Lohmann, U., Iftekhar, S., Star, M., & O'Connor, P. (2018). Identifying the causes of low participation rates in conservation tenders. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 12(1), 1-45.
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    2018
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    2018
     
    2017
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    2014 Gao, P., Duan, T., Nan, Z., & O'Connor, P. (2014). First report of Septoria apocyni causing spot blight on the species of apocynum venetum and poacynum pictum in China. Plant Disease, 98(10), 1429.
    2014
    2012
     Scopus43 WoS35
    2010
     Scopus24 WoS18
    2010 Cargill, M., & O'Connor, P. (2010). Vignette 12: Structuring interdisciplinary collaboration to develop research students' skills for publishing research internationally: Lessons from implementation. International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 5, 279-292.
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    2009
     Scopus8 WoS8 Europe PMC6
    2007