Winter 2022 & Winter 2023

Throughout the winters of 2022 and 2023 I worked as a staff photographer at Powder Mountain Cat and Heliskiing, located on the Sea to Sky Highway between Squamish and Whistler. I produced high-quality images for guests highlighting experience of cat-skiing in fast-paced environment. In this role I worked alongside members of the guiding team with the guest experience while skiing.

September - October 2020

During the fall of 2020, I worked with the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Restoration Foundation conducting restoration activities in the South Chilcotin region. This included planting Whitebark pine seedlings, surveying survival of previously planted areas, and establishing competition removal plots.

January - March 2020

This winter I worked on establishing a research project throughout Southwestern BC alongside researchers from Environment and Climate Change Canada. This research used GPS tracking tags to monitor locations and blood samples and stable isotope analysis to build a food-web for both disturbed and undisturbed areas in the region.

September - December 2019

Australia consumes more than 1 billion cups of coffee annually and hosts one of the world’s burgeoning coffee cultures. Despite this passion for caffeine, however, there are large flaws across coffee’s supply chain. In Sydney alone this translates to more than 108 million tons of spent coffee being sent to landfills annually, while in Uganda farmers producing coffee are not paid a fair wage for their crops. Kua is a social enterprise that seeks to provide world-positive coffee to workplaces in Sydney Australia, addressing social issues with a small brown bean that links people across the world.

November 2019

Tasmanian Devils are the world’s largest carnivorous marsupials and are among the most well-known Australian endemic marsupials. Over the past 15 years, Tasmanian devil populations have been decimated by Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD), a transmissible cancer that has left infected populations at 10-15% of pre-DFTD numbers. I spent two weeks working for the ongoing monitoring program run by the University of Tasmania, trapping Devils and other dasyurids such as Eastern and Spotted-tail Quolls.

July 2019

Storm-petrels are the most widespread species of procellariiform in the Northern Hemisphere, but due to their cryptic nature both in their breeding areas and while at sea they are also some of the least understood. I spent a month on Petrel Islet, a small seabird colony island on the West coast of Haida Gwaii, studying the two species of Storm-petrels that nest on the island, Fork-tailed and Leach’s Storm Petrels, using GPS and GLS tracking tags.

June 2019

Due to their large foraging forays and annual migrations, seabirds are thought to be good indicators of changes in oceanic productivity. It is therefore important to track their population trends over time, especially in the face of our changing climate. I spent a month on Triangle Island, 45km off the Northern tip of Vancouver Island, as a part of Environment Canada’s long-term seabird monitoring projects in the Scott Islands, working on the three species of seabird that breed on the colony.

April 2018 - August 2018

The tropical-dry forests of Nicaragua are a unique ecosystem, characterized by their extreme variability between wet and dry seasons, and are threatened by land-use change and development in Central America. I spent the summer of 2018 volunteering in Southwestern Nicaragua, working for the conservation program of Casa Congo, a Canadian non-profit. I Coordinated my own research project attempting to estimate the populations of three species of monkey in the nearby wildlife refuge of Chacocente.

April - August 2017

2017 was one of the most destructive fire seasons on record in BC, with over 1300 fires burning over 1.2 million hectares throughout the province. I spent that summer as a unit crew member in the Rocky Mountain Unit Crew, based out of Cranbrook BC.

May - September 2015

Dark-eyed Juncos are a common passerine species in BC and are known for the diverse ecosystems they live and breed within. I spent the summer of 2015 working as a field assistant for Jennifer Greenwood, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Kathy Martin’s lab at UBC, studying Dark-eyed Juncos in the mountains surrounding Revelstoke, BC.