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Darwin City, Nt, Au

Darwin City, Nt, Au

Proserpine, Queensland, Australia

Environmental partner working towards sustainable and environmentally concious seafood production.Key tasks include among others waste, wildlife, bushfire as well as offset management, compliance monitoring and reporting, and environmental data collection and management.

Humpty Doo, Northern Territory, Australia

Duties:● Workflow analysis, data modelling and statistical evaluation.● Planning and problem solving for operational improvements.● Reporting and data presentation.Achievements:● Improved company processes and staff training through developing a full process manual including workflow plans.● Designed and implemented new infrastructure in the fish nursery to improve grading efficiency.● Developed new assessment procedures to examine and respond to changes in fish… Show more Duties:● Workflow analysis, data modelling and statistical evaluation.● Planning and problem solving for operational improvements.● Reporting and data presentation.Achievements:● Improved company processes and staff training through developing a full process manual including workflow plans.● Designed and implemented new infrastructure in the fish nursery to improve grading efficiency.● Developed new assessment procedures to examine and respond to changes in fish health Show less

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

With ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Advanced Prawn BreedingDuties:● Data modelling and statistical evaluation, and data management using Microsoft Excel, R Studio and other software.● Planning and problem solving of complex analytic structures.● Reporting and data presentation.Achievements:● Designed analytics and statistics for collaborative scientific projects with institutions across Australia.● Breakthrough discovery in white-leg shrimp DNA with… Show more With ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Advanced Prawn BreedingDuties:● Data modelling and statistical evaluation, and data management using Microsoft Excel, R Studio and other software.● Planning and problem solving of complex analytic structures.● Reporting and data presentation.Achievements:● Designed analytics and statistics for collaborative scientific projects with institutions across Australia.● Breakthrough discovery in white-leg shrimp DNA with economic implications.● Cleaned, structured, modified, and analyzed data sets with more than 15,000 individual data points. Show less

Townsville, Queensland, Australia

With Ornamental Hatchery in MARFU James Cook UniversityDuties:● Maintaining reef animals at the marine research facility, and undertaking research to support their reproduction.● Biosecurity management.● Planning and supervision of animal exhibits at official university events and live animal transports.● Communication of research progress and findings to key stakeholders.● Tank construction of different sizes (2L – 2000L) and functionality.Achievements:●… Show more With Ornamental Hatchery in MARFU James Cook UniversityDuties:● Maintaining reef animals at the marine research facility, and undertaking research to support their reproduction.● Biosecurity management.● Planning and supervision of animal exhibits at official university events and live animal transports.● Communication of research progress and findings to key stakeholders.● Tank construction of different sizes (2L – 2000L) and functionality.Achievements:● Designed and built new experimental larval tanks.● Contributed to economic and sustainability outputs by developing new larval rearing protocols, and upscaling and maintaining difficult live microalgae and copepod cultures.● Increasing research funding by building strategic partnerships. Show less

Duties:● Supervising construction and operation of an aquaponic system (cultivating fish and other aquatic animals in tanks).● Demonstration of culture techniques.● Teaching important biochemical interactions in an aquatic environment.Achievements:● Designed and supervised construction of a barramundi hatchery and aquaponic system.● Developed a new teaching strategy to support underperforming students, who then successfully completed the subject.

Master Of Environmental Research, Environmental Microbiology

Vibrio ecology of the Darwin area.

Graduate Certificate Of Research Methods, Animal Genetics, Hd

Activities and Societies: Working on diversity loss by modelling of selection methods in breeding of P. monodon

Bachelor'S Degree, Aquaculture, Hd

Activities and Societies: Tutor for chemistry, biology and aquaculture subjects. Price for highest GPA of the college of Science.