Fisheries And Marine Environmental Research Facility - Sydney, UNSW
The FAMER Facility is a multi-disciplinary laboratory managing really exciting projects. One of the primary projects is the collaborative research with the NSW Department of Primary Industries, to determine how the Offshore Artificial Reef impacts its environment using CTD profilers, camera observations and ROV deployment. Another project relies on the understanding of the Tasman Sea Eddies using CTD profilers, plankton samples, satellite observations and gliders.
Project Management Engineer - Offshore Artificial Reef & Seaglider
Initially contracted to operate the ROV, I successfully adapted my expertise to other projects. I particularly stand out by the number of projects that I have achieved in bringing my expertise in Engineering and Physics in a Biology Facility and find a number of solutions to the ongoing problems.
Exceeded goals and discovered:
✔ Deployed & retrieved 2 M.I.T. ocean Seagliders (Marine Survey)
✔ Programmed in Matlab, achieved data analysis and gained solid analytical skills
✔ Discovered internal tides with 30 datasets
✔ Computed & effected a 2-years Offshore Artificial Reef productivity assessment from observations
✔ Launched a high-resolution zooplankton scanner to identify and replace laser optical plankton counter
✔ Wrote process operation manuals and attended weekly meetings to discuss operations and advancement in project
✔ Implemented automatic processes to develop dynamic autonomous systems, reduced 80% of the operation time
✔ Developed procedures and tools for testing and calibration
✔ Retrieved electronic instrumentation from the Offshore Artificial Reef and performed dataset analysis
✔ Collaborated with team members in term of Engineering developments and problem-solving for Sydney maritime operations
