Following a seven month professional work placement at FjordStrong, the consultancy extended my employment. My main expertise lies in FjordStrong’s bespoke stereo-Baited Remote Underwater Video systems (BRUVs), in which I assisted with its development and refinement. This includes deploying and retrieving these camera devices at sea in addition to processing captured video footage to produce morphometric measurements of recorded fauna using photogrammetry techniques.

During my time at AFBI Crossnacreevy, I served as an Assistant Scientific Officer in the Cereals VCU lab and a Field Assistant in both the DUS and Herbage VCU labs. My roles encompassed a blend of field and laboratory work, where I collected agronomic data for various cereal and grass plant varieties.

Completed seven months with the Fisheries and Aquatic Ecosystem Branch as part of the Professional studies year of my MSci Marine Biology degree at QUB. My work fell within the area of marine fisheries stock assessment and involved processing samples of fish and invertebrates for length frequency data and other biological characteristics. During my tenure I also had the opportunity to join numerous fisheries and oceanography based surveys onboard AFBI's research vessel, the RV Corystes.