extreme environments

Scientist on the RV Dagon, with UWA Deep Sea Foundation and the British Geological Society. Photo by Bhakti Patel

Assisting on the TPT Leg 4 from Honolulu to Ensenada

Deployment / retrival of landers with crane and zodiac

Deep-sea Fish ID analysis, amphipod collection, baiting

eXpendable BathyThermograph deployments

Science team training / remote first aid workshops

Expedition scientist and logistic co-ordinator for a 5-month mission, with ~11 weeks onboard. Photo by Dan Booher

Media presentations with BBC NHU, Nat Geo, and OXR

Submersible / ROV dives for corals, Niskins, and sediment

CTD casts / Niskins for water and microplastic samples

Helicopter flights for megafauna surveys

Lab eDNA extractions and Winkler titrations

Observed the behind-the-scenes of divers that work in the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab and Johnson Space Centre

Pre dive ops briefings / equipment lectures

Met Astronauts Matthew Dominik and Michael Barratts

Observed ISS testing runs (SSRMS) / suit donning

Mission control, Orion, Artemis II training, gas filling

ESA-sponsored microgravity researcher at the Gravity Research Summer School

Project leader for a 'Spin your Thesis' LDC pitch

Proposed testing limpet radula as a biomaterial

Workshops, astronaut experiences, lectures

Animal models, space physiology, vestibular systems

Travel grant and field course as part of my MSc thesis - cancelled due to covid; self-funded it later on in 2022

Citizen science projects - Happy Whale / MAPPPD

Lectures: polar geopolitics, oceanography, microbiology

Pinniped, cetacean, bird and ice ID surveys

Land and zodiac excursions, photography documentation

Worked at the Elephant and Wild Dog Research Project, and Neuras Conservation Site.

Cheetah Footprint Identification Technology data

Monitoring camera traps for African wild dogs

Using radio telemetry VHF to track elephant herds

Conducting game counts, tracking, spoor ID

Small mammal research assistant in bush Karoo rat socio-ecology (BSc placement). Photo by Milena Zduniak

Established a long-term monitoring project

Honorary Research Fellow for project development

Trapping, marking, sexing, blood and tissue samples

Maintaining the research station, radio tracking