Student Assistant

• Aug 2019 - Present

Field Assistant

• Apr 2021 - Apr 2021

I volunteered with UNSW platypus researchers Gilad Bino and Tahneal Hawke for a week during their April 2021 platypus surveys near Wingham, NSW. This involved searching for suitable areas to deploy nets, setting up nets and monitoring nets for platypus during the night.

Field Assistant

• Mar 2021 - Mar 2021

I volunteered with Charles Sturt University's Lachlan River flow monitoring evaluation research (MER) field team for a week in March 2021. This involved conducting daytime fish and bird surveys and nocturnal frog and grey snake surveys and testing water quality.

Student Intern

• Nov 2018 - Jun 2019

I assisted with field and labwork as part of the Living Seawalls Project. The Living Seawalls Project aimed to investigate how imitating natural habitat heterogeneity on constructed seawalls may favour different species assemblages, in an attempt to identify seawall modifications that could enhance habitat opportunities for native rather than invasive species. Fieldwork included taking temperature, biofluorescence and other measurements and counting and identifying invertebrates on the seawalls. Labwork involved processing dozens of samples scraped from the wall and identifying mobile and sessile invertebrates.