Sea-space Ambassador (extreme environments)

Extreme environment participation

  • Deep Sea

  • Desert environments (Namib, Karoo)

  • Jungle

  • Polar regions (Antartica and Arctic)

  • Microgravity (ESA / NASA / LUNARES)

These experiences in extreme environments and space analogs have led me to become an ambassador for Blue Abyss (the next generation of extreme environment testing centres around the world). I will also become an analog astronaut participant in the LUNARES Workshop in Poland in 2025 (from the Worlds Biggest Space Analog). Below is a list of past experiences I have conducted.

space, deserts (sand and ice)

  • LUNARES space analog paticipant, Poland (2025)

    Analog Astronaut participant workshop

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  • NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Houston Texas, USA (2023)

    Observed 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

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  • European Space Agency, ESTEC, online due to covid-19 (2020)

    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

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  • OceanWide Expeditions, Western Antarctic Peninsula (2022)

    Travel grant and field course / covid - 2022

    Citizen science projects - Happy Whale / MAPPPD

    Lectures: polar geopolitics, oceanography, microbiology

    Pinniped, cetacean, bird and ice ID surveys

    Land and zodiac excursions, photography

    see website

  • Mangetti and Namib-Naukluft National Parks, Namibia (2018)

    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

    see website

  • Succulent Karoo Research Station, South Africa (2017-2018)

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

    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

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