Joanne joined BSG Ecology as an ecologist in March 2018 and is based in the Newport office.
Joanne has managed projects from a variety of sectors including renewable energy, infrastructure, residential development, the public sector and minerals. Joanne has led the survey and monitoring work for a number of UK onshore wind farm applications (including work in Ireland and Scotland). This has included both pre-construction baseline surveys and post-construction monitoring. She has also been involved in bat and reptile monitoring projects at disused quarry sites, phase 1 habitat and bird surveys for solar farm applications and great crested newt surveys/translocations.
Joanne has achieved a bird ringing A permit, and her activities with Gower Bird Ringing Group has fuelled her passion for ornithology; she has developed her bird identification skills over the last few years (both by sight and song) and has now undertaken breeding bird, winter bird, nightjar and wader surveys for a number of wind farm and solar farm applications. Joanne holds a Natural England and a Natural Resources Wales great crested newt licence.
Joanne has a BSc in Zoology, for which she carried out a research project investigating the diet and sex ratios of migrating storm petrels captured on their northward migration. She has also studied for a post-graduate certificate in ecological survey techniques with the University of Oxford, which she passed with Distinction.
Joanne is a keen birdwatcher and has previously volunteered for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) and the RSPB.