
Professional Experience
July-August 2021
Latvian Fund for Nature - Grassland Restoration Technician
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- Monitoring restoration progress of current urban meadows in Riga
- Conducting vegetation transects
- Mapping new meadow locations and conducting spatial analysis to identify potential new sites for grassland restoration
May 2021
ISDE Conference 2021 - Proofreader
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- Proofing and editing scientific papers submitted for the ISDE conference 2021
December 2019 - August 2020
Macaw Recovery Network - Great Green Macaw Apprentice
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- Responsible for my own aviary of endagered great green macaws rescued as former pets or victims of wildlife trafficking
- Carrying out daily behaviour observations to ensure the health and welfare of the birds.
- Monitoring breeding birds and their offspring to increase survivability of chicks i.e. regular weighing of chicks, nestbox surveying, development checks
- Bird movements and handling
- Basic veterinary care including administering medicine and vaccinations
November 2017 - May 2019
Devon Wildlife Trust - Acoustic Bat Analyst
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- Utilising AnalookW software to identify individual bat species by their acoustic calls, recorded by a bat detector.
March - August 2018
University of Palermo - Research Assistant
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- Assisting with field work and data collection for a variety of research projects including:
- Radiotracking edible dormice to monitor their impact on crop yields
- reptile surveys to assess population sizes and species diversity in the Nebrodi mountains
- Attaching radiotracking devices to Bonelli's eagle chicks as part of an EU life project to monitor populations
- Collaborating with the university's zoology musuem to create an electronic database of their collections (specimens)
- Classifying (identification of species, age, sex etc) unidentified specimens in the collections
August 2017 - February 2018
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) - Residential Staff
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- Practical conservation tasks to maintain the nature reserve:
- Scrub clearance
- trail and fence maintenance
- removal of invasive plant species
- Restoring old quarry sites into woodland habitat
- tree planting
- species specific habitat construction i.e. newt habitats, bat hibernacula etc.
- Using GIS to monitor the progress and change of restored habitats
- Wildlife Surveys:
- Winter/Summer bird counts
- Catching lesser-horseshoe bats for ringing and population monitoring
- Butterfly transects
2011 - Present
Various - Other Experience and Qualifications
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Shamwari Game Reserve Volunteer (June-August 2014)
LANTRA qualifications in ATV driving, Brushcutting, pesticide Pa1,Pa6 + Pa6W
IEMA certified green impact auditor training
First-Aid qualification
RSPB in-house Data handling, safeguarding level 2 and GIS training