In November last year, I was fortunate enough to meet Jeroen Jongejans, Kate Malcolm and Darren Spratt from Dive! Tutukaka in New Zealand at DEMA 2018 in Las Vegas. I was giving my half-way presentation at the scholarship breakfast, and not long after I’d finished Darren came up and had a chat to me about […]

In January I set off on a 7-week voyage on the CSIRO Marine National Facility Vessel, RV Investigator as one of 28 scientists on the most comprehensive scientific study ever undertaken on the world’s largest animals, Antarctic Blue Whales and their food source Antarctic Krill. The voyage, led by the Australian Antarctic Program, was called […]

Over the New Year I set off on my most personal and testing journey of my scholarship year. It was not something I was sure about facing at the start of my scholarship year and I knew many of the past Australasian scholars, as well as other OWUSS scholars had been given an eye-opening opportunity […]

Sitka Making my way further north again after diving in Oregon with Jenna Walker, I made my way to Sitka, in the southeast of Alaska. I was extremely fortunate to be hosted by Assistant Professor Joel Markis at the University of Alaska Southeast where I would be learning all about the scientific diving program conducted […]

Monterey Bay Aquarium A Kelp Forest icon and a place I had aspired to visit and better yet dive in was the famous Monterey Bay of North California. Considering I was already on this side of the world and so close, I reached out for some help through the support of OWUSS network. I was […]