I studied a Bachelor or Environmental Science, specialising in Biology at UNSW, and went on to first class honours for my honours thesis. I am finalising corrections on my PhD thesis entitled “How can humans and elephants coexist in Botswana?”, under the supervision of Dr Keith Leggett, Dr Julian Fennessey and Associate Professor Tracey Roger’s.

I initially started my career working in the Roger’s lab, looking on a leopard vocalisations to determine density estimates in Antarctica. This then lead to me being involved with conducting leopard seal playback experiments with captive animals, to determine learning capabilities. I went on to do my honours thesis on blue whales vocalisations of the east and southern coast of Australia, and examining species presence and density estimations.  I was accepted to do a summer research internships in Kenya with the NGO, “Save the Elephants”, based in Kenya, working on the monitoring the illegal killing of elephants (MIKE) program  additionally I worked on a long term mammal census and elephant database for the area.