Jenelle Ritchie

Jenelle Ritchie is a Project Technical Officer in the Aquatic Zoology department at the Western Australian Museum. She received a BSc. in Conservation Biology from Murdoch University, and was employed at the CSIRO before commencing work at the museum. During her employment at the museum over the last 12 years she has worked on many … Continued

Angela Rossen

“My work is in biodiversity education both with the paintings I create and the biodiversity school and community projects that I deliver. I hope that my artworks will conjure for the viewer something of the wonder and beauty of the plants and animals that I study.” Angela Rossen partners with a range of organizations to … Continued

Veit Huehnerbach

Veit Huehnerbach is one of Falkor’s Marine Technicians, and is living in the UK.  

Jill Brouwer

Jill Brouwer is currently studying the effect of ocean acidification on mussel sperm-egg interactions for her Honours degree at the University of Western Australia. She is interested in multidisciplinary research involving chemistry and marine science. She has also undertaken some work in seafloor mapping and acoustics, and is hoping to do further study in this … Continued

Paula Cartwright

Paula completed a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Biology) with Distinction and Honours (First Class) at Curtin University from 2014 – 2018. For her Honours research, Paula developed a remote sensing turbidity algorithm and toolkit for monitoring a flood plume in the Miri-Sibuti Coral Reef National Park, Borneo. Paula is presently undertaking PhD research at the … Continued

Federica Foglini

Federica Foglini is a senior marine data scientist at the Institute of Marine Science (CNR-ISMAR) in Bologna. Her main interest and expertise is in seafloor mapping and geomorphology, marine cartography, habitat mapping technologies, multi beam swath bathymetry acquisition and processing, marine spatial data management, and Geodatabase design and implementation. She obtained her degree in Geology … Continued

Taylor Simpkins

Taylor Simpkins is from California, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Marine Science at the University of San Diego. Taylor has worked for the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), San Diego State University (SDSU), and Hubbs Research Institute as a scientific diver on kelp, seagrass, and fish stock restoration projects in temperate systems. … Continued

Todd Bond

Todd Bond has been immersed in the ocean from a very young age while growing up in Perth, Western Australia. He pursued his passion for natural sciences and the marine environment at The University of Western Australia where he received an honours degree in Marine Science. Following graduation, he took several appointments with UWA as … Continued

Kaycee Handley

Kaycee Handley is a Master of Research candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Her research uses isotope geochemistry to improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of oceanic anoxic events. She completed a Bachelor of Science at Macquarie University in 2018 where she majored in climate … Continued

Sara Hajbane

Sara Hajbane is a physical oceanographer and archaeologist currently undertaking a PhD in environmental engineering at the University of Western Australia, where she has previously completed her Bachelors and Honours degrees. Her current project aims to understand the oceanographic processes that create areas with high plastic concentrations in coastal waters. Her focus for this project … Continued