Ella Sinclair Email & Phone Number

Australia

Port-Vila, Vanuatu

4 months of intensive, full-time advanced French classes

Nouméa, New Caledonia

A 2021 New Colombo Plan Scholar undergoing program in New Caledonia as an intern at the Pacific Community and a student at the Alliance Francais in Vanuatu

Noumea, Province Sud, New Caledonia

Oceanic Fisheries team; Actively involved in the FAD (fish aggregating device) roll-out program in the Pacific region. This included field work in Nouméa to deploy FADs, organised and contributed to several stakeholder meetings to draft and regionally distribute a FAD recovery plan. Critically analysed and investigated echo- sounding data and catch data to better understand how to communicate FAD findings with communities. This included working closely with SATLink, and with the Ministry of Marine Resources in the Cook Islands.Heavily involved in the roll-out of the Ikasavea app which included training fisheries officers located in Honiara, Solomon Islands on how to use the app, for accurately measuring and collecting fisheries market data. This field work also included conducting biological sampling of coastal fish species.Coastal-Based Fisheries Management team; Created communication plans and strategies to efficiently communicate scientific findings to the broader Pacific region, targeting fishers, school children and the general public. Heavily involved in the roll-out and creation of the Coastal-Based Fisheries website, Echo's of Oceania. Directors Office; Actively organised and assisted in planning the Heads of Fisheries multi-national stakeholder meeting. This involved organising travel and accommodation for participants from across the Pacific, facilitating break-out groups, writing opening and closing remarks for the Chair and Director General of SPC and general hands-on planning and logistics.Actively assisted in the facilitation and organising of the Pacific Fisheries Leadership program course ‘Leading from the inside out’ in Nadi, Fiji. This included travelling to Fiji to assist in organising the general hands-on planning and logistics as well as being a participant in this 5 day course about leadership styles and strategies on how to create change.

Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

A sales expert, involved in day-to-day problem solving and communicating with a variety of the general public, including being involved in cooperate communications.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Tutoring the Marine & Atmospheric Sciences second-year course and the first-year Waste-free World course. This involved organising tutorials, participating and leading field-trips, laboratory assistant during practical tutorials and marking/grading assignments and exams.

Brisbane, Australia

Actively engaged with school students to inspire and discuss potential career options within STEM, including visiting schools within Brisbane and regional Queensland and presenting at university career expos.

Queensland, Australia

Worked in the Environmental and Earth Science laboratory, conducting lab-work on samples from deep ocean environments and assisting in manuscript work, planning of projects and training other laboratory students.

Brisbane, Australia

Queensland, Australia

Working in the Coral Reef Ecosystems lab on the Knowledge Hub project. Working with academics in the marine biology and conservation field, to write and provide research for literature reviews for the 50 Reefs Project.

Queensland, Australia

Spent one month at sea onboard the Research Vessel Falkor, with the Schmidt Ocean Institute research team. Worked shift-work in the science team onboard, mapping the edge of the continental slope using multi-beam sonar systems and advanced mapping technology. Was involved in conducting sea floor grab samples, deploying CTD's and working in the wet and dry labs onboard. Assisted in data management, providing data to Geoscience Australia, cleaning data from the multi-beam sonar results, using Fledermaus, ArcGIS and Google Earth Pro.

Fiji

Volunteered for work experience writing news headline stories, filming and editing

Honours, Earth Science/Marine Geology, First Class

Completed my Honours degree with my thesis focusing on uncovering microplastics in submarine canyons in the Great Barrier Reef Marine.

Bachelor Of Science, Biology, Wildlife Ecology, Earth Science, Distinction

Education record

Graduated With Act 2017 | Completed Igcse 2015