A bit about me ...
I'm proudly born and bred in the west country (England). My father was a keen sportsman and was invited to play a trial match with Spurs after WW2. I followed in his footsteps playing all the school sports, but my favourite was field hockey, playing for Bristol Ladies, Portishead Firebrands, Singapore Cricket Club, and a guest appearance with the Washington Wildcats. My fondest memory of school is jumping up and down chanting 'We are standing on Carboniferous Limestone' (thanks to my dear old geography teacher), which I'm sure helped develop my passion for the land, only growing stronger through Duke of Edinburgh expeditions. I threw myself into all kinds of local volunteering (Ashton Court Festival, Julian Trust Night Shelter for the Homeless, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers in the Cotswolds), which then grew into international adventures: Laangwis Environmental Park in Luxembourg, Sunseed Desert Technology in Spain, GAP teaching in Chile, and Raleigh International in Namibia.
I love travelling and so embraced my various roles with Fugro GEOS and Fugro OCEANOR, which took me to many corners of the world to collect metocean data - from the west coast of Shetland to Baja Mexico, Irian Jaya in Indonesia, and Angola. When able, I love to spend long enough in places to really get to know them rather than just rushing through. For example, I have lived and worked for extended periods in Chile, Singapore, the USA, and Norway. In Africa, I spent 3 months sleeping under the stars in Namibia with Raleigh before learning to scuba dive in Cape Town (and getting a nasty box jellyfish sting on my face during a night dive), 1 month in Kenya collecting data for my BSc geography dissertation and travelling, followed by various fieldwork trips to Angola and Namibia and an IOC ICG/IOTWS meeting in Kenya.
In 2005, I moved with work to Trondheim in Norway but after a few years fell in love with a viking and got whisked away to a remote small town in Nordland. The nature here is a magnet and the walks breathtaking. Nothing beats the smell of a fresh sea breeze. In between raising our daughter, I've helped in various ways in the local community from making waffles for skiers to helping at the language cafe for new residents and now acting as a family contact for a family. I love meeting and getting to know families from around the world, whether sharing a meal in Yemen and India on Fugro trips or helping refugees settle into life in Norway. When we all work together the world is a much happier place.
As a geographer, you get to study both the physical and human world and how they interact. I care deeply about the planet. Together with my passion for learning about the world through travel and my lived experiences, I'm able to edit a broad range of subject matter from the energy transition and renewables to international relations and medicine (following my mum there - she was a GP) and lots more in between.
My favourite things to do: swim through the sun's rays on the water, relax to EMDR, walk through the forest and along the coast, watch the water from the deck of a boat, eat a pub lunch after a walk in the Lake District or Scotland, go to the theatre, snuggle next to my cat.
I'm proudly born and bred in the west country (England). My father was a keen sportsman and was invited to play a trial match with Spurs after WW2. I followed in his footsteps playing all the school sports, but my favourite was field hockey, playing for Bristol Ladies, Portishead Firebrands, Singapore Cricket Club, and a guest appearance with the Washington Wildcats. My fondest memory of school is jumping up and down chanting 'We are standing on Carboniferous Limestone' (thanks to my dear old geography teacher), which I'm sure helped develop my passion for the land, only growing stronger through Duke of Edinburgh expeditions. I threw myself into all kinds of local volunteering (Ashton Court Festival, Julian Trust Night Shelter for the Homeless, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers in the Cotswolds), which then grew into international adventures: Laangwis Environmental Park in Luxembourg, Sunseed Desert Technology in Spain, GAP teaching in Chile, and Raleigh International in Namibia.
I love travelling and so embraced my various roles with Fugro GEOS and Fugro OCEANOR, which took me to many corners of the world to collect metocean data - from the west coast of Shetland to Baja Mexico, Irian Jaya in Indonesia, and Angola. When able, I love to spend long enough in places to really get to know them rather than just rushing through. For example, I have lived and worked for extended periods in Chile, Singapore, the USA, and Norway. In Africa, I spent 3 months sleeping under the stars in Namibia with Raleigh before learning to scuba dive in Cape Town (and getting a nasty box jellyfish sting on my face during a night dive), 1 month in Kenya collecting data for my BSc geography dissertation and travelling, followed by various fieldwork trips to Angola and Namibia and an IOC ICG/IOTWS meeting in Kenya.
In 2005, I moved with work to Trondheim in Norway but after a few years fell in love with a viking and got whisked away to a remote small town in Nordland. The nature here is a magnet and the walks breathtaking. Nothing beats the smell of a fresh sea breeze. In between raising our daughter, I've helped in various ways in the local community from making waffles for skiers to helping at the language cafe for new residents and now acting as a family contact for a family. I love meeting and getting to know families from around the world, whether sharing a meal in Yemen and India on Fugro trips or helping refugees settle into life in Norway. When we all work together the world is a much happier place.
As a geographer, you get to study both the physical and human world and how they interact. I care deeply about the planet. Together with my passion for learning about the world through travel and my lived experiences, I'm able to edit a broad range of subject matter from the energy transition and renewables to international relations and medicine (following my mum there - she was a GP) and lots more in between.
My favourite things to do: swim through the sun's rays on the water, relax to EMDR, walk through the forest and along the coast, watch the water from the deck of a boat, eat a pub lunch after a walk in the Lake District or Scotland, go to the theatre, snuggle next to my cat.
