We're at Wambiana cattle station
southwest of Charters Towers. It's a
working cattle farm and we bring the
students here to do biodiversity surveys
across their property I just love
tropical diversity. It's what I research
and it's what I teach about, so getting a
whole lot of students out of the
classroom into the field to be right
with the wildlife out here and just see
how much there is and learn how to do
all these survey techniques is super
exciting. So we do lots of different
survey techniques out here. So that ranges
from cruising around in the cars
looking at big things like kangaroos and
emus and dingoes, which we've seen a few
of, all the way through to studying the
really small animals, which are really
important in the landscape as well.
I really love nature since I was young and
I really knew I wanted to do something
with animals. I didn't know what it was, I
didn't know how I was gonna get there
but I knew I wanted something like that.
I did my full degree here. I did a
Bachelor of Science majoring in Zoology
and Ecology. For me it's that hands-on
thing, you get into the field, you can see
all the things that you've been talking
about in lectures, all the things that
you have a previous knowledge of and you
can actually see them in the flesh. So
it's completely different from being in
a classroom or reading a book.
