Christopher Ward Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Assisting on ecological surveys – including dusk/dawn bat, Great-Crested Newt, and breeding bird surveys.Provision of domestic pest control services.Design, logistics and implementation of field research projects.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Inspection of facilities ranging from domestic properties to blue chip industrial food processing and manufacturing sites.• Accurate identification of pest and non-target species of various taxa, requiring a detailed knowledge of their ecology.• Maintain detailed and accurate records, reports and recommendations regarding actions carried out or required, to ensure compliance with Customer, ISO, Environmental Health and British Retail Consortium code of practices/audits.• Exercising good account management skills, building and maintaining relationships with a variety of clients, initiating sales opportunities and procuring new contracts.• Strong time and issue management skills to ensure potential risks are actioned and client visits are carried out at appropriate intervals.• Confident communicator, developing and delivering staff training and Pest Awareness courses to clients.• Installation of bird, insect and rodent monitoring, proofing and control systems.

Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

• Lead night patrols searching for and working with turtles, collecting morphometric measurements, nest details and tagging. • Post-hatching inspections and nest exhumations, collecting data on nest success. • Training of Research Assistants and Volunteers in safe working practices and turtle ecology in tropical forest/beach environments. • Community education: turtle workshops, turtle festival, cat/dog castration clinics. • Maintenance of camp infrastructure and living areas with limited resources.

Colombia

• Mist netting, nest searching and monitoring supporting this avian ecology research project. • Extraction and processing of >2000 birds with 15 morphometric measurements required per bird. • Blood sampling – safely and routinely extracted and preserved blood from >2000 birds for lab analysis.• Parasite collection/extraction – safely and routinely collected and preserved external parasites for lab analysis. • Metabolic analysis of responses to external temperatures using internal temperature probes.• Accurate data entry and photo evidence organization.

• Process, analysis and species identification of pathogen load in water samples from around the North-West region of England in the microbiology lab. • Use of aseptic techniques and a class 4 Cleanroom, undertaking comprehensive analytical quality controls and environmental monitoring. • Accurate record keeping, adherence to ISO requirements and application of GMP/GLPs.

Jamaica

• Project Design and implementation. • Community Education: presentations given on the importance of biodiversity and conservation.to a range of audiences from primary schools to community and government forums. • Publication of an article highlighting the projects and aims of the WRC in Froglog. • Contributed to the development of the Catadupa Conservation Action Plan. • Installation and maintenance of weather stations and acoustic monitoring devices.• Transect surveys of the Jamaican giant swallowtail butterfly and their host plants.• Identification of, capture and sampling of endemic anurans for chytridiomycosis.• Analysis of field observations and acoustic monitoring to identify preferred species habitats.• Study into the death feigning behaviour of the endemic Jamaican.

• Aseptic laboratory techniques and accurate data recording and entry. • Autoclave use, PCR and electrophoresis. • Preparation of growth media, processing and analysis of samples for pathogen load.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biology, General

B.Sc Biology with Industrial Experience

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