As a qualified pedologist my goal is to inform best practises to manage land and soil resources for future generations. I work in the broad areas of soil quality, landscape resilience and land use capability assessment, geographical information system mapping and consultancy services. 

I am an environmental soil scientist whose main research focus is understanding the impacts of human activities on terrestrial environments.    I have conducted research in Alaska, the Tibetan Plateau, Vanuatu, PNG, and the Chatham Islands.  I’ve been privileged to have had 11 trips to Antarctica: including two for my PhD on human impacts on the soil environment, one to the Antarctic Peninsula as a field assistant with the Spanish Antarctic Programme, trips downloading a network of soil climate stations, and my first trip, to run a marathon on the continent.  

I am involved in a multidisciplinary project characterising the environment around Scott Base, Antarctica, as a baseline against which any environmental effects of base redevelopment can be measured.

Most recently I have been awarded a Marsden fast start to investigate whether penguin mounds serve as natural archives of anthropogenic contamination in remote Antarctic environments.  We have conducted first campaign to Cape Bird (summer 22/23) and will go to Cape Hallett next year (summer 23/24).