Holsworth Research Wildlife Endowment - 2024, 2025
Awards:
Runner up best presentation - Oceania Chondrichthyan Society 20th Anniversary Conferences 2025
30 under 30 award and 'Standout Student' category winner - Out for Australia 2023
Research Collaboration and Impact Award (team member) 2023 - Awarded for achieving impact outside the academic community and successful collaboration with scientists, managers, and the tourism industry to monitor and manage the white shark cage-diving industry.
Best in-person presentation - Southern Cross University RISE conference 2023
Chancellor’s letter of commendation - Flinders University (outstanding academic achievement during honours year) 2022
John Lake Poster Award (junior) - Australian Society of Fish Biology (ASFB) 2022 conference
Runner-up best speaker - Oceania Chondrichthyan Society (OCS) 2022 conference
Gilbert P. Whitley Memorial Student Award for best presentation (junior) - World Fisheries Congress 2021
Public talks and events:
Young Marine Biologist Program - Co-founder and science facilitator - 2025 ongoing
National Marine Science Center, Undergraduate shark dissection, and shark tracking talk - 2024
Gills Club, event hosted - 2024
Deadly Science, Shark adaptations - 2023
Solitary Islands Aquarium, Three part shark series - 2023
Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions, Shark science - 2021, 2022
Workshop speaker:
ASFB Frontiers in Fish Tagging Workshop: Innovation and Ethics (2024): ‘Shark tagging’
Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference (2024): Trophic Ecology Workshop: ‘Using animal-borne cameras to elucidate foraging behaviour’.
Conferences:
OCS 20th anniversery conference - June 2025 - Navigating a warming ocean: predicting shifts in seasonal thermal habitat for white sharks Runner up best oral presentation - A shark eye view of a marine predator - poster
ASFB conference, in-person presentation - November 2024 - Navigating a warming ocean: predicting shifts in seasonal thermal habitat for white sharks - Biology & Physiology session chair
Southern Cross University RISE higher degree conference, in-person presentation - October 2024 - Navigating a warming ocean: predicting shifts in seasonal thermal habitat for white sharks
OCS conference, in-person presentation - April 2024 - Unmasking global movement trends in white shark behaviour
White Sharks Global, in-person presentation - November 2023 - Environmental factors impacting white shark activity
Indo-Pacific Fisheries Conference, in-person presentation - November 2023 - Environmental factors impacting white shark activity
Southern Cross University RISE higher degree conference - in-person presentation – October 2023 - Does the increase in shark activity during wildlife tourism lead to higher energy expenditure?
Sharks International, online talk and in-person poster - October 2022 - Does the increase in shark activity during wildlife tourism lead to higher energy expenditure? - Accelerometers and animal-borne cameras reveal behavioural plasticity in white shark predatory strategy
ASFB conference, in-person presentation and poster - November 2022 - Does the increase in shark activity during wildlife tourism lead to higher energy expenditure? - Accelerometers and animal-borne cameras reveal behavioural plasticity in white shark predatory strategy
OCS conference, online presentation - 2022 - The impact of wildlife tourism on the behaviour, field metabolic rate and daily energy expenditure of an top predator
World Fisheries Congress, online presentation – 2021 - The impact of wildlife tourism on the behaviour, field metabolic rate and daily energy expenditure of an top predator
New Zealand Marine Science Association and OCS Conference – 2019