Lab Coordinator - Inkawu Vervet Project - Vryheid
(2024-04)
- Supervise and train constantly rotating team of international and local international field researchers, masters, PhD or postdoctoral students in faecal sample collection and processing.
- Assist the vet during darting for the physiology research (collect blood, tissue samples and hair samples) and collaring.
- Processing and analysing blood collected in the field.
- Organisation and monitoring of daily equipment and storage and update the protocols
- Data capturing in CyberTracker
- Working with CREW to train them on the brain extraction and exchanging of formalin
- Assisting the management on community engagement with local stakeholders
Research Field Assistant - Inkawu Vervet Project - Vryheid
(2024-01)
- Collection of natural data on vervet monkeys (focals, scans, between group encounters, social and sexual data etc.).
- Collection and processing of faecal samples for genetic, dietary, hormonal, and parasitic analysis.
- Habituation, capturing, collaring, and telemetry.
- Vocalizations and video recordings
- Cognitive experiments
- Assisting the independent researcher on vocalisation data collection
- Volunteering on snare removal in Mawana Game Reserve
Research Assistant, Wildlife Ecology Lab & Forest Ecology Entomology Lab - Nelson Mandela University George Campus - George Campus
(2023-03 - 2023-12)
- Species identification of camera trap photo using an AI system: TrapTagger.
- Assisting a Post Doctoral Fellow with insect sorting for research on understanding insect-tree pollination in Afromontane forests.
- Servicing Garden Route camera traps.
- Processing Jackal scats
- Assisting Bsc Honors students with data collection with research on: Looking at nectar robbing by insects and birds in fragmented sites: Identifying insects and bird pollinators and noting down abundance
- A population assessment of spotted hyaenas in Addo Elephant National Park, Sorting pictures of individual hyaenas from TrapTagger.
