Carys Morgans Email & Phone Number

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP) Experimental Research Technician - Enhanced Corals and Treatments – Selective Breeding for Assisted Evolution

Great Barrier Reef

• Planning and coordination of daily operations
• Leading dive and snorkel teams
• Ensuring safe and efficient dive operations
• Training new crew members
• Data collation and reporting and quality control

Townsville, Australia

• Facilitating various experiments and providing operations input and support in the AIMS Seawater Precinct:
• Husbandry of marine animals (coral, fish, urchins, COTS, snails)
• Coral propagation and larval settlement
• Regular maintenance of critical life support systems
• Production and harvesting of live feeds (Artemia and phytoplankton),
• Providing technical support and advice for ongoing experiments to students and researchers

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

• SCUBA diving and snorkelling to control Crown of Thorn Starfish populations on the GBR
• Implementing Reef Health Indicator Surveys (RHIS) and MANTA towing
• Assisting in boat operations and deckhand work in variable weather conditions

Townsville, Australia

• I completed an internship assisting with scientific research and maintenance tasks in the National Sea Simulator at AIMS:
• Maintenance of the critical life support systems such as tanks and pumps
• Husbandry of organisms such as coral and fish
• Culturing algae and artemia for feeds
• Water quality sampling and operation of analytical equipment such as buoyant weights
• Facilitating experiments in the SeaSim including coral propagation as a part of the “Reef Restoration and Rehabilitation” project.

Tauranga, New Zealand

• Safety briefings and educational presentations on marine life (particularly dolphins)
• Promoting marine conservation and answering any questions
• Entertaining and interaction with a wide variety of people (children, elderly, ethnicity, disabled)
• Continuously searching for marine life
• Deckhand duties including cleaning/tying knots/docking/occasionally driving boat

Tauranga, New Zealand

• Supervising lane swimming, SCUBA diving, water polo & under water hockey.
• Interaction with a range of customers including elderly, disabled and small children.
• Maintaining pool water quality and plant room readings
• Assisting clients with health and fitness inquiries
• Attending and participating in numerous lifeguard and first aid training

Papua New Guinea

• During my Diploma of Marine Studies I completed many scientific dive surveys including a live-aboard in the Mercury Islands, 2 weeks of field work at Slipper Island/Aldermen Islands, numerous survey dives in the Bay of.
• Organizing survey teams and independently designing an appropriate survey methods
• Scientific reports
• Completed various scientific surveys on SCUBA to collect fish/coral abundance, diversity and health data.
• Surveyed differing coral reefs, depths, sea and weather conditions.
• Identification of over 200 species of tropical fish and coral (to genus level).

Master Of Science (Msc), Marine Biology And Biological Oceanography

Completed the following subjects: • Research Project. Grade: Distinction (D) • Life History and Evolution of Reef Coral. Grade: High.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Marine Biology And Biological Oceanography, A

Completed the following subjects: • Aquaculture Reproduction and Early Life Stages. Grade: A+ • Marine Biology and Ecology. Grade: A •.

Diploma In Marine Studies (Level 6), Conservation Biology, A