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.
• 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.

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.

• 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

Education record