Experience

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  Somerset Wildlife Trust

  • United Kingdom
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Monitoring Officer

    • Apr 2019 - Present

    Monitoring SWT reserves to inform management and ensure compliance. Also responsible for updating Reserve Management Plans.

  • Landscape Ecologist

    • Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

    I am a senior Ecologist at the Trust. I am taking on the management of our coastal living landscape and the management of our ecological networks.

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  Taunton and District Beekeepers

  • Taunton, United Kingdom

  • Teacher (2008- present) and Committee Member (2008-2012) - Voluntary positions

    • Sep 2008 - Present
    • Taunton, United Kingdom

    I lecture on the Biology of Bees to beginner and intermediate level beekeepers.I teach practical beekeeping techniques to beginners.I help run the Beekeeping stand at the Taunton Flower. In 2012 and 2018 I was an invited speaker in the main floral tent and spoke on bees and other pollinators.I have given a number of interviews on local radio.I have given talks to the Rotary Club and other local groups.I organised a stand at the Taunton Sustainability Show in 2011 and helped organise it in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

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  Avon Wildlife Trust

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Monitoring Officer

    • Mar 2013 - Nov 2017
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    My role was to monitor the status of wildlife on our reserves and feed back into the management undertaken to conserve wildlife. In 2014 I surveyed 7 reserves to assess botanical diversity. In 2015, we monitored 5 reserves including ditch surveys on one of our wetland sites.In 2016 I created a priority grassland targeting map for our B-Lines project and carried out monitoring on 5 reserves. We are currently in the process of mapping all the Ancient / Veteran / Notable trees on our sites.I use GIS regularly and manage the Trusts geographical data.

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  Buglife

  • Conservation Officer

    • Dec 2011 - Dec 2012

    Oil beetle project - Including data management, website updating, GIS, presenting findings at a National (RES) conference in 2012, Press releases and Radio interviews to promote the survey.Wessex Water Springs and Seepages - managing contractors to deliver entomological and bryological surveys in the Wessex area.Invertebrate workshop (organiser) - Spiders, Beetles, Grasshoppers & crickets.

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  Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium

  • Somerset, UK

  • Ecologist

    • Feb 2007 - Nov 2011
    • Somerset, UK

    Worked on implementing Water Level Management Plans on the Somerset Levels. The ultimate aim being to bring 11 SSSIs into Favourable Condition. Wrote the organisations Biodiversity Action Plan.Use of ArcGIS to produce project maps including the manipulation of LiDAR data to show potential water levels.Member of the Somerset Biodiversity Partnership and the Somerset Levels Monitoring Group.Worked with partners in Natural England, the Environment Agency, local NGOs, other Drainage Boards and local landowners.Protected species surveys, mainly water vole, badgers, otters and plants.I gave a talk on the Somerset Levels to a local group in November 2011.

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  Bristol Zoo

  • Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Volunteer

    • May 1996 - Nov 2011
    • Bristol, United Kingdom

    Vounteered in the Activity Centre, weekly between 1996-1998 and occasionally up to the end of 2011.Face painting, arts and crafts, promoting the work of the zoo and talking to children and parents about animals and conservation.

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  Somerset Environmental Records Centre

  • Habitat Mapping / GIS Officer

    • Aug 2005 - Jan 2007

    Mapped habitats in the Mendips region of Somerset, the Mendips AONB and the Blackdowns AONB (Nerohe project) using Aerial Photograph Interpretation, GIS and the Integrated Habitat System.Designed mapping / survey protocols, carried out botanical surveys and bat surveys (transects).Carried out mapping of rights of way in Somerset.Training included botanical ID, habitat mapping, water vole, badger, otter, bat, crayfish, butterfly and oil beetle surveys.

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  National Trust

  • North Cornwall

  • Volunteer

    • Feb 2005 - Aug 2005
    • North Cornwall

    Practical conservation and land management including dry stone walling, butterfly surveys, footparth maintenance, restoration of parts of Boscastle following the floods.

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  Royal Entomological Society

  • Postgraduate Representative & Editor of Postgrad section of Antenna

    • 2001 - 2002

    Represented the Society at conferences, helped organise the Post-graduate Forum and edited the Post-grad section of Antenna.

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  Surrey Wildlife Trust

  • Pirbright, Surrey

  • Volunteer

    • Jan 1999 - Sep 1999
    • Pirbright, Surrey

    Practical conservation work including scrub clearance, coppicing, charcoaling etc...