Rosi Merz

• Restoration ecology (writing management plans, advising, planting, plant sourcing)
• Site-assessments/monitoring (environmental threats and features of the site, biodiversity monitoring, scientific research design, trial set up, data collection, analysis and reports)
• Predator control management (trapline design/planning and mapping, trapline set ups, existing trapline checks and refurbishment)

• Lead for scientific field research
• Lead relationship management for field sites
• Lead fieldwork H&S
• Advisor for engineers/designers on animal behavior/ecology to inform product design

• Restoration planting
• Bird monitoring (bird recorders & bird counts), insect monitoring
• Plant identification & monitoring

• Project management/website & social media engagement/networking/leadership and team leader skills
• Public speaking (workshops)
• Community engagement and support to a PF Miramar peninsular goal
• Securing funding and report writing

Kumutoto

• Supervising/coordinating team members in remote locations
• Experimental design including trap design
• Working and handling of wild rats and possums in captivity

• Challenging fieldwork in very remote areas, including overnight
• Ecological assessments of pest and insect populations (chew cards, wax tags, tracking tunnels, pit fall traps)
• H&S in remote areas

• Data analysis, excel skills
• Committee meetings and decision-making (team work and communications)

• Penguin habitat restoration
• Leadership skills: volunteer coordination & training, community involvement, event organizing, collaboration with DoC, WCC etc.
• Pest control (motion triggered camera, trapping, chew cards, sound monitoring)