I am a polar and deep-sea marine biologist with 15 years’ experience in sponge taxonomy, biogeography, and seafloor image analysis. I am originally from the UK having previously worked at the British Antarctic Survey as a marine biologist, via Germany’s Senckenberg Natural History Museum as a sponge taxonomist, to Australia, where I am in the final year of my PhD at the Australian National University, researching polar marine sponge biodiversity data stewardship. This will be my second Ocean Census expedition in which we found new species and expanded ranges for many known sponges in New Zealand’s Bounty Trough. I’ve previously undertaken 4 expeditions to the seas around Antarctica, including a recent one with Greenpeace which trained me to co-pilot a manned submersible to map vulnerable seafloor environments around the Antarctic Peninsula.
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