Olivia Bird Email & Phone Number

As a Programmes Team Student Researcher, I provide desk-based research as necessary to support climate resilient community development projects in the Pacific Islands.

Kapiti Coast, Wellington Region, New Zealand

The Takutai Kāpiti project, established by the Kāpiti Coast District Council, aims to increase the awareness of the Kāpiti Coast community to the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise, empowering them to take part in developing solutions and pathways for adapting to coming change. As a Coastal Advisory Panel member, I participate in community.

Kapiti Coast, Wellington Region, New Zealand

My role at Chamber has allowed me to gather a wide range of skills and experience:- Adminstative: systems and website maintenance, financial account management- Creative: desigining marketing content, creating newsletters, writing media releases and reports.- Relational: member management and communications, key partnership support

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

As a demonstrator and tutor, I get to apply my passion for engaging with students to a range of contexts, including laboratory-based instruction, field-based excursions, and in-class teaching support and facilitation of discussion. Subject areas include plant biology, global change biology, plant diversity, and ecological restoration theory.

As a Student Climate Research Intern, I focused on critically evaluating effective, high-impact carbon emission mitigation strategies and forming recommendations to donors. In this role I evaluated several different carbon removal and sequestration strategies through desk-based research and company interviews, and produced in-depth research reports to.

Kapiti Coast, Wellington Region, New Zealand

In my role as a part-time teacher aide I worked with a wide range of students with differing learning and behavioural needs, and was a personal mentor for a young student with additional and complex learning needs, teaching life skills, self-management, and community integration.

Master Of Science - Ms, Ecological Restoration

Master of Science in Ecological Restoration, focusing on the response of alpine ecosystems to climate change and shifts in ecosystem.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Ecology And Biodiversity, Development Studies

Activities and Societies: Completed papers including: global change biology, development policy, human geography, and statistics, with a.