Long Term Ecology

Angelina Siegrist

Biodiversity Field Officer for the Conservation and Landscape Ecology Group, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University

Angelina joined the Sustainable Farms team in 2019. Angelina completed her Bachelor of Environmental Science (Wildlife and Conservation Biology) at Deakin University, graduating with first class honours. Her honours research looked into the long-term responses of small mammals to fire and climate change in the Grampians National Park. This research instilled in her the importance of, and inherent lack of, long-term research, which is what drew her to the long term ecology group.

During her studies Angelina worked in bushland restoration in Melbourne and surrounds. She also undertook as many volunteer opportunities as possible, ranging from working with orangutans in Sumatra to trailing cane toad mitigation methods in remote parts of the Kimberley. She went on to work for the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in north-west Australia, undertaking large scale biodiversity monitoring using various techniques. This sparked a particular passion for and interest in reptiles. Angelina then went on to work as a consultant ecologist in mid-western New South Wales, working in an agriculture and resource dominated landscape. Angelina has relocated to Wodonga to work on the Greater Murray Biodiversity Monitoring program, as well as other projects with the long term ecology group.