PROFILE

CURRENT POSITION

Research Fellow, University of Tasmania

 

PREVIOUS POSITION

Postdoctoral Fellow, CSIRO Marine Research

 

EDUCATION

2007   Doctor of Philosophy, Distinction, Ecology
            Memorial University of Newfoundland

2003   Bachelor of Science, Honors, Biology
            University of Alberta

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Plastic pollution

Wildlife toxicology

Invasive predator removal

 

 

"Developed countries alone spend $17 billion annually on petfood and $34 billion each year on slimming products. It is thus clear to us that the developed world could fund effective conservation if it chose to" (Balmford & Whitten 2003)