Joe is a freshwater ecologist and keen angler whose PhD was focused on quantifying the ecological response of habitat restoration in UK trout rivers. Joe joined the University of East Anglia’s capacity building grant GROW Colombia, building research capacity and developing molecular tools for fish identification and detection, assisting the assessment and conservation of the country’s megadiverse freshwater fishery.

Joe now works for NatureMetrics, where he is developing projects internationally with a range of stakeholders, using eDNA tools for biodiversity assessments and monitoring.