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My background is in software development and I came to Adelaide to try and apply my skills towards aiding our natural world and helping to conserve our amazing biodiversity. My wife has also been pursuing her PhD in Ecology, studying Malleefowl on the Eyre Peninsula. Both of us studying concurrently has been both highly rewarding and often challenging in many ways!
My PhD research has focussed on developing tools for improving the quality of biodiversity data collected by citizen scientists. I developed two mobile apps for iOS and android devices for The Great Koala Count in South Australia in 2016 and similarly for the Echidna Conservation Science Initiative (echidnaCSI) which began in 2017 and continues today. The echidnaCSI project was one of the 3 finalists for the 2021 Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science.