Profile

I love all the amazing life and interesting places our planet has to offer. I have done lots of volunteering, travelling and working lots of different jobs, in my quest to do what I can to protect and preserve the things that we share our home with. I love to read and learn new things, so I often listen to audio books while I am walking or in my garden. I like to be outside, but when it’s cold and rainy I spend time indoors, painting and drawing and making things. I drink a lot of tea, I like earl grey or herbal teas, I even grow my own plants to make different teas, like hibiscus and chamomile.

I work mainly on the taxonomy side of the project. Taxonomy is all about identifying that you find, at the Marine Biological Association we are focused on marine life. As a research assistant I get to be involved in lots of different parts of this work, going out and collecting marine life using a lot of different survey techniques, from fish traps to diving surveys and collecting things in rockpools. Then we bring it back to the lab, get it under the microscope to identify it and then cut it up to get samples for use in the genome sequencing and barcoding work. We need to keep track of everything we’ve collected and have some nice big datasheets full of all the information from what we have collected.