I’m not sure whether I’m proud or embarrassed that this is only my second update of the year – and my first since June.
I suppose I’m slightly embarrassed that this work blog has been so neglected (although I’ve been writing up a storm over on my personal blog DorkyMum!). But I’m also proud of being so busy with projects that writing a post on here has carried over on my to-do list from one week to the next… and then the next… and then the next.
Not all of my recent work is something that I can include in a portfolio.
For example, I am on one of the judging panels for the Tasmanian Literary Awards this year – a fun but time-consuming task that involves reading almost 40 books in seven weeks and taking notes on them for discussion with the other judges, before making some very big decisions. I hope that once the process is over I’ll be able to write more about it, but for now I’m bound by a confidentiality agreement and can’t say a word about what I’ve been reading. It has felt more like ‘work’ that I had imagined, to be honest!
However, there has plenty of other work that I can link to, and I’ll do that below so you can click through and read some of my recent pieces if they grab your attention.
I have done a HEAP of work for Merri Creek Management Committee since I last posted. That timeframe has incorporated two newsletters and their annual EOFY fundraising campaign, and I’m delighted that the fundraising campaign helped MCMC reach their highest ever amount raised! Some of the other highlights for me have included:
- From Siberia to the Merri: the long flight of Latham’s Snipe
- From a bush childhood to lifelong Merri custodian
- Detection dog Atticus delivers at Curly Sedge Creek
I had a couple of articles published with RACT Journeys over the winter:
I’ve also had some news stories and features published on the CSIRO website, including these ones:
- Energy resilience: designing sovereign fuels for a low carbon future
- GenCost at eight: a decade of disruption
- Australia’s future carbonauts
I’ve written several Case Studies for Adapt Land&Sea, a NESP initiative:
- Identifying and overcoming legal barriers to marine and coastal habitat restoration
- Building an evidence base for coastal adaptation
- Co-designing future climate scenarios
- Using expert elicitation to develop Tolerable Fire Intervals
- Using the IPCC vulnerability framework to identify adaptation options
- Adapting to future fire: Climate Adaptation for Nature in the ACT
- None like it hot: assessing the feasibility of giant kelp restoration as a climate adaptation intervention
And as always, there have been a good few projects that I’ve worked on but can’t share yet. Perhaps I will manage one more update on here before the new year and the joy of a short summer break.
In the meantime, enjoy the spring if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, and enjoy the autumn if you’re in the North. Please bear me in mind for any upcoming projects you have that might be a good fit!
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